George Floyd protests

A new book makes the case for a more pragmatic anti-policing movement—one that seeks to build working-class solidarity across racial lines.

Looking back on the George Floyd rebellion.

A movement’s early days as told by those who rose up, those who bore witness, those who grieved, and those who hoped.

There are superficial similarities, but what we’re seeing now is something completely new.

The present round of protest is different. The participants are people of every race, ethnicity, sex, age, and religion.

Two dozen experts consider the George Floyd protests in light of protests past.

Many are looking to history for clues about how to understand the evolving moment. Here's what to know.

Heather Ann Thompson explains what’s changed and what has stayed the same.

A proper understanding of urban rebellion depends on our ability to interpret it not as a wave of criminality, but as political violence.

The media narrative used to discredit urban rebellions as violent betrayals of the civil rights movement has been attached to protests ever since.

You can call the United Daughters of the Confederacy a lot of things. But racist? Why, some of their best friends…

Class conflict undermines assumptions about political solidarity.

The scholar has changed the way Black authors get read and the way Black history gets told.

The unauthorized removal of the monument took place during the racial justice protests of summer 2020.

A striking photo project reveals the maintenance yards, cemeteries, and shipping containers where many of the memorials to white supremacy ended up.

Repression, mediation, and division of Black resistance from 1906 to the 2020 George Floyd Uprising.

What the history of a gesture can tell us about Black creative power.

Two books trace anti-police uprisings to the urban riots of the Civil Rights era. But as people took to the streets in 2020, why did so few pick up a brick?

America did exactly what the Kerner Commission on the urban riots of the mid-1960s advised against, and fifty years later reaped the consequences it predicted.

In our flattened historical imagination, pictures of atrocity and those of progress can coincide in unsettling ways.

When Tuskegee student Sammy Younge, Jr., was murdered in 1966, his classmates focused their righteous anger on a local monument.

On L.A. solidarity and the Black radical tradition.

The Confederate monuments did fall. But not permanently.

At E. 38th Street and Chicago Avenue in Minneapolis, a self-organizing network explores what it means to construct and maintain a public memorial.

We don't know which images will become emblematic of the Black Lives Matter demonstrations, but past movements have shown the dangers of a singular narrative.

Every statue defends an idea about history, but what if those ideas are wrong?

As was the case in 200 years ago, this summer's relentless pyrotechnics may not be meaningless acts of an unthinking mob.

Not since Reconstruction has there been such an opportunity for the advancement of racial justice.

A lethal incident of police brutality in Miami in 1979 offers just one of countless examples of the reality generations of African Americans have faced.

How today's protests are struggling to reclaim the vision of the great abolitionist leader.