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Rosa Parks and the Power of Oneness

Rosa Parks shook the world of Jim Crow by refusing to give up her seat to a white man on her way home from work.
by Peter Feuerherd, Barry Schwartz via JSTOR Daily on December 1, 2016

Welcome to the Second Redemption

The accomplishments of the first black president will be erased by a man who rose to power on slandering him.
by Adam Serwer via The Atlantic on November 10, 2016
Side by side photos of Presidents Abraham Lincoln and Donald Trump.

How Republicans Went From the Party of Lincoln to the Party of Trump, in 13 Maps

It's been a remarkable transformation over 162 years.
by Andrew Prokop via Vox on July 20, 2016
John Roberts in DC with the media taking photos of him walking.

Inside John Roberts’ Decades-Long Crusade Against the Voting Rights Act

Roberts rose from Rehnquist’s clerk to Chief Justice, leading efforts to weaken the Voting Rights Act and redefine voting protections.
by Ari Berman via Politico Magazine on August 10, 2015

Remembering President Wilson's Purge of Black Federal Workers

Woodrow Wilson arrived at the White House determined to eliminate the gains African-Americans made during Reconstruction.
by Josh Marshall via Talking Points Memo on June 26, 2015

Mapping Occupation: Force, Freedom, and the Army in Reconstruction

A detailed look at when and where the U.S. Army was able to enforce the new rule of law in the years following the Civil War.
by Gregory P. Downs, Scott Nesbit via Mapping Occupation on March 1, 2015
Photo of Jimmy Lee Jackson.

The Killing of Jimmie Lee Jackson

How a post-Civil War massacre impacted racial justice in America.
by Debo Adegbile via The Marshall Project on February 27, 2015

The Awakening of Thurgood Marshall

The case he didn’t expect to lose. And why it mattered that he did.
by Gilbert King via The Marshall Project on November 20, 2014
LBJ signing the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

The Civil Rights Act of 1964: A Long Struggle for Freedom

A Library of Congress exhibit on the context, passage, and significance of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
via Library of Congress on September 10, 2014
LBJ signing the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

How LBJ Saved the Civil Rights Act

Fifty years later, new accounts of its fraught passage reveal the era's real hero—and it isn’t the Supreme Court.
by Michael O'Donnell via The Atlantic on March 19, 2014
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Fierce Urgency of Now

Exploring the origins and impacts of the "March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom," on that event's 50th anniversary.
via BackStory on August 23, 2013

Activism in the US

The Civil Rights movement led the way, soon followed by anti-war protests and activism for women’s issues and gay rights.
via Digital Public Library of America on April 1, 2013
Woody Guthrie.

This Land Is Our Land

The Popular Front and American culture.
by Michael Kazin via Humanities on May 1, 2011
Black marchers picket in front of the White House to ask FDR to free the Scottsboro boys.

How 'Communism' Brought Racial Equality to the South

The Communist Party fought for racial equality in the South, specifically Alabama, where segregation was most oppressive.
by Robin D. G. Kelley, Michel Martin via NPR on February 16, 2010
A picture of a woman at a protest against Islamophobia.

The Most Patriotic Act

A warning from September 2001 about government overreach in the name of national security.
by Eric Foner via The Nation on September 20, 2001
Black and white photograph of James Baldwin

A Report from Occupied Territory

These things happen, in all our Harlems, every single day. If we ignore this fact, and our common responsibility to change this fact, we are sealing our doom.
by James Baldwin via The Nation on July 11, 1966
Photograph of a soldier using a telephone in the field.

A History of Wire-Tapping

Meyer Berger’s 1938 look at the technology, history, and culture of eavesdropping, from the wiretapping of Dutch Schulz to the invention of the Speak-O-Phone.
by Meyer Berger via The New Yorker on June 11, 1938
Henry McNeal Turner.

Am I a Man?: The Fiery 1868 Speech By An Expelled Black Legislator In Georgia

The expulsion of two Black lawmakers from the Tennessee House recalls an earlier expulsion of dozens of Black lawmakers from Georgia's General Assembly.
by Henry McNeal Turner, Benjamin Barber via Facing South on September 3, 1868
Freedom's Journal front page, Vol. 1 No. 1, March 16, 1827

The First African American Newspaper Appears, 1827

A letter from the creators of Freedom's Journal to their initial patrons.
by Samuel Cornish, John Brown Russwurm via Freedom's Journal on March 16, 1827
Collage of John Roberts, Ronald Reagan, and a voting booth.

John Roberts’s Dream Is Finally Coming True

The chief justice has been working to neuter the Voting Rights Act since the beginning of his career.
by David Daley via The Atlantic on December 10, 2025
Female prisoners at Parchman sewing.

From Chain Gangs to the “Modern” Southern Prison

Those who sought to modernize and reform prisons have expanded them in the process and more permanently entrenched a racialized carceral state.
by Kirstine Taylor via Inquest on October 29, 2025
A map of a proposed redistricting plan in Louisiana.

The Two Section Twos

The protection against racial gerrymandering in Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act is constitutional. Just read Section 2 of the 14th Amendment.
by Sherrilyn Ifill via Sherrilyn's Newsletter on October 15, 2025
Fifteen year old Walter Gadsden being attacked by police dogs during the civil rights demonstration in Birmingham, Alabama
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Sanitizing the Civil Rights Movement

Contrary to the story being told in textbooks, media, and museums, the police were not neutral bystanders.
by Joshua Clark Davis via HNN on October 14, 2025
A suburban road in California.

What Auto Insurance Tells Us about Race, Risk, and Responsibility

Who gets to move freely in California’s auto insurance system?
by Genevieve Carpio via The Metropole on October 7, 2025
Federal encampment on Cumberland Landing, Virginia.
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How the Union Lost the Remembrance War

The victors of the American Civil War failed to write their story into the history books, leaving a gap for the mythologizing of the Confederacy.
by Matthew Wills, Robert J. Cook via JSTOR Daily on October 5, 2025
Bruce Lee and Kareem Abdul Jabbar practicing martial arts.

When Bruce Lee Trained With Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

When Bruce Lee met Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, he was still known as Lew Alcindor, the most hyped young basketball star in history.
by Jeff Chang via Literary Hub on September 25, 2025
Page excerpting Louisiana's Reconstruction constitution and featuring portraits of its Black legislators.

The Long Struggle for Equality in the American South: Louisiana as a Test Case

Louisiana’s 1845 and 1852 conventions reveal partisan tensions over the economy that shaped Black struggles and opportunities for decades.
by Lacy K. Ford via The Panorama on September 23, 2025
Drawing of Adolph Hitler with its shadow being the pointed hood worn by members of the Ku Klux Klan.

When the Black Press Stood by the Jews Against the Nazis

This important but little-known chapter of Black-Jewish history in the United States is worth remembering.
by Dan Freedman via Moment on September 10, 2025
A. Philip Randolph.
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A. Philip Randolph Lambasts the Old Crowd

A Black socialist magazine urges solidarity and action in 1919.
by A. Philip Randolph, Martha H. Patterson, Henry Louis Gates Jr. via HNN on September 9, 2025
Cover of "Born In Flames" book.

Incendiary Schemes

A new book reveals systematic, profitable, and deadly arson schemes perpetrated by landlords and insurance companies in the Bronx.
by Charlotte E. Rosen via Protean on September 7, 2025
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