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In 1968, When Nixon Said "Sock It To Me" on 'Laugh-In,' TV Was Never Quite the Same Again

The show's rollicking one-liners and bawdy routines paved the way for cutting-edge television satire.
by Ryan Lintelman via Smithsonian on January 19, 2018
Recy Taylor

Recy Taylor's Truth

How one black woman's campaign for justice after a rape by six white men shaped the struggle for equality—and the #MeToo movement.
by Danielle L. McGuire, Vann R. Newkirk II via The Atlantic on January 10, 2018
A prison cell with a television tuned to election coverage.
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Why Felon Disenfranchisement Doesn't Violate the Constitution

The justification can be found in an obscure section of the Fourteenth Amendment.
by Sara Mayeux on December 21, 2017

A White Mother Went to Alabama to Fight for Civil Rights. The Klan Killed Her for It.

What motivated Viola Liuzzo to take up the cause of justice hundreds of miles from her home?
by Donna Britt via Washington Post on December 15, 2017

A Homecoming for Murray Kempton

Looking at the reporter’s life through five houses in Baltimore.
by Andrew Holter via Lapham’s Quarterly on December 13, 2017
Banthe Bombers protest photograph by Richard Avedon.

Richard Avedon and James Baldwin’s Joint Examination of American Identity

Their 1964 collaboration, "Nothing Personal," brought together aspects of American life and culture through photographs and text.
by Hilton Als via The New Yorker on November 6, 2017
Pauli Murray

The Life of Pauli Murray: An Interview with Rosalind Rosenberg

The author of a new biography explains how Murray changed the way that discrimination is understood today.
by Rosalind Rosenberg, Alyssa Collins via Black Perspectives on October 16, 2017
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How the Fight Over Civil Forfeiture Lays Bare the Contradictions in Modern Conservatism

The brewing conflict between originalism and law-and-order politics.
by Sarah A. Seo via Made By History on July 24, 2017

African Americans Have Lost Untold Acres of Land Over the Last Century

An obscure legal loophole is often to blame.
by Leah Douglas via The Nation on June 26, 2017

Aaron Alpeoria Bradley and Black Power during Reconstruction

Black power, and the causes it supports, began long before the official Black Power movement.
by Keri Leigh Merritt via Black Perspectives on June 21, 2017
Mitch Landrieu

Address on Removal of Four Confederate Statues

Why New Orleans took down monuments that had been installed by supporters of the "Cult of the Lost Cause."
by Mitch Landrieu via YouTube on May 19, 2017
The Tower of Babel painting by Pieter Bruegel The Elder

Identity Crisis

It’s only by acknowledging the roots of identity politics in the emancipatory movements of the past that we can begin the work of formulating an alternative.
by Salar Mohandesi via Viewpoint Magazine on March 17, 2017

“This is Not Who We Are,” Critics Say About the Refugee Ban. But What if it is?

Fighting over immigration is central to the American story.
by Nicole Hemmer via Vox on February 9, 2017

Ida B. Wells and the Economics of Racial Violence

In the late 19th century, Wells connected lynchings to the economic interests and status anxieties of white southerners.
by Megan Ming Francis via Items on January 24, 2017
Jim Jones in 1977

Drinking the Kool-Aid at Jonestown

Did you drink the Kool-Aid? The phrase has become such a part of the vocabulary that for many its origins have been obscured.
by Rebecca Moore, Peter Feuerherd, David Chidester, James T. Richardson via JSTOR Daily on November 11, 2016
Photograph of Redd Velvet (born Crystal Tucker) who started her career as a classically trained singer.

Keeping The Blues Alive

Is blues music a thing of the past? A festival in Memphis featuring musicians of all ages and nationalities shouts an upbeat answer.
by Touré via Smithsonian on August 26, 2016

The Canine Terror

Since slavery, dogs have been used to intimidate and control African Americans.
by Tyler D. Parry, Charlton W. Yingling via Jacobin on May 19, 2016

How Jackie Robinson Helped Defeat a Trump-Like Candidate

The baseball great warned of lasting repercussion for black voters during Barry Goldwater's presidential campaign.
by Matt Delmont via The Atlantic on March 19, 2016
Cover of "Why Busing Failed," depicting anti-busing protestors surrounding a school bus.

Why Busing Failed

Getting the history of “busing” right enables us to see more clearly how school segregation and educational inequality continued in the decades after Brown.
by Matt Delmont via Why Busing Failed: Race, Media, and the National Resistance to School Desegregation on March 6, 2016

K Troop

The untold story of the eradication of the original Ku Klux Klan.
by Matthew Pearl via Slate on March 4, 2016
Booker T. Washington writing at a desk.

Toward a Usable Black History

It will help black Americans to recall that they have a history that transcends victimization and exclusion.
by John McWhorter via City Journal on December 23, 2015

The Cause Was Never Lost

The Confederate flag remains the symbol of our unfinished reckoning with race and violence for good reason.
by Jason Morgan Ward via The American Historian on November 2, 2015

Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Footnote Four

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's solo dissent from an affirmative action case was inspired by a footnote.
by Lincoln Caplan via The New Yorker on September 13, 2013

SNCC Digital Gateway

A documentary website that tells the story of how young activists united with local people in the Deep South to build a grassroots movement that transformed the nation.
by Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee via SNCC Digital Gateway on January 1, 2013
Angela Davis.

An Angela Davis Interview

On revolution and violence.
via The Black Power Mixtape on February 9, 2012
Black and white divided star on the cover of "Two Nations" by Andrew Hacker.

The American Dilemma

The moral contradiction of a nation torn between allegiance to its highest ideals and awareness of the base realities of racial discrimination.
by David Brion Davis via New York Review of Books on July 16, 1992

The Unacknowledged Lesson: Earl Warren and the Japanese Relocation Controversy

Though best known for his dedication to civil rights as Chief Justice, Earl Warren was a key figure behind Japanese internment in California - and stood by it.
by G. Edward White via VQR on October 15, 1979
Book cover of "Let the Glory Out: My South and its Politics" by Al Gore

The Chaotic Politics of the South

For three quarters of a century the South was the geographic base of Democratic Presidential hopes.
by C. Vann Woodward via New York Review of Books on December 14, 1972
Spread from Vine Deloria, Jr.'s essay "The Bureau of Indian Affairs: My Brother’s Keeper."

The Bureau of Indian Affairs: My Brother’s Keeper

An excerpt of “My Brother’s Keeper,” the essay that chronicles the Bureau’s various crimes over two centuries.
by Vine Deloria Jr. via Art In America on July 1, 1972
James Baldwin

‘I Can’t Accept Western Values Because They Don’t Accept Me’

Revolution, the civil rights movement, and African-American identity.
by James Baldwin, Robert Penn Warren via Literary Hub on April 27, 1964
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