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Japanese American woman and baby wearing tags, and people crowded into an internment camp.
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How Activists Resisted — And Ultimately Overturned — An Unjust Supreme Court Decision

And why they must resist the Court's current race-based precedents.
by Robert L. Tsai via Made By History on January 30, 2019

MLK: What We Lost

50 years after King's death, his image has been transformed and stripped of its radicalism.
by Annette Gordon-Reed via New York Review of Books on October 18, 2018

Black Wall Street: The African American Haven That Burned and Then Rose From the Ashes

The story of Tulsa, Oklahoma’s Greenwood district isn’t well known, but it has never been told in a manner worthy of its importance.
by Victor Luckerson via The Ringer on June 28, 2018
An integrated classroom in Anacostia High School, Washington, D.C. in 1957.

The Radical Supreme Court Decision That America Forgot

In Green v. New Kent County, the Court saw school desegregation as a reparative process.
by Will Stancil via The Atlantic on May 29, 2018

The Disputed Second Life of an American Internment Camp

A debate over a planned fence around the site where people of Japanese ancestry, mostly American citizens, were forcibly interned.
by Alastair Boone via CityLab on May 24, 2018
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The Afro-Pessimist Temptation

An examination of the tragic echoes of Reconstruction-era politics following Obama's presidency.
by Darryl Pinckney via New York Review of Books on May 23, 2018

Secret Use of Census Info Helped Send Japanese Americans to Internment Camps in WWII

The abuse of data from the 1940 census has fueled fears about a citizenship question on the 2020 census form.
by Lori Aratani via Retropolis on April 6, 2018
Customers at an African American bank in Harlem.
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We Need More Government, Not Less, in The War on Poverty

The myth of the “dependent” poor.
by Mehrsa Baradaran via Made By History on December 8, 2017

American Slavery: Separating Fact From Myth

Before we can face slavery, learn about it and acknowledge its significance to American history, we must dispel the myths surrounding it.
by Henry Nash Smith via The Conversation on June 19, 2017

Bryan Stevenson Explains How It Feels To Grow Up Black Amid Confederate Monuments

"I think we have to increase our shame — and I don't think shame is a bad thing."
by Ezra Klein, Bryan Stevenson via Vox on May 24, 2017

Long-Lost Manuscript Has a Searing Eyewitness Account of Tulsa Race Massacre

A lawyer details the attack by hundreds of whites on the black neighborhood where hundreds died 95 years ago.
by Allison Keyes via Smithsonian on May 27, 2016

Japanese American WWII Incarceration

FDR cited military necessity as the basis for incarcerating 120,000 Japanese Americans.
by Natasha Varner via Densho: Japanese American Incarceration and Japanese Internment on February 9, 2016
Woman who looks unhappy.

Unwanted Sterilization and Eugenics Programs in the United States

A shameful part of America’s history.
by Lisa Ko via PBS NewsHour on January 29, 2016

Race and the American Creed

Recovering black radicalism.
by Aziz Rana via n+1 on December 7, 2015
Jim Crow-era postcard with illustration of a black boy in the jaws of an alligator

How America Bought and Sold Racism, and Why It Still Matters

Today, very few white Americans openly celebrate the horrors of black enslavement—most refuse to recognize the brutal nature of the institution or activ...
by Lisa Hix via Collectors Weekly on November 10, 2015

Bitter Harvest

The fear and hysteria that led to Japanese interment during World War II was manufactured for corporate profit.
by A. V. Krebs via Washington Post on February 2, 1992

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