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The Massive Liberal Failure on Race, Part III
The Civil Rights movement ignored one very important, very difficult question. It’s time to answer it.
by
Tanner Colby
via
Slate
on
February 27, 2014
The Massive Liberal Failure on Race, Part I
How the liberal embrace of busing hurt the cause of integration.
by
Tanner Colby
via
Slate
on
February 3, 2014
partner
Making Whiteness
How a historian's family history informed her professional quest to unpack the stories white Southerners told about themselves.
by
In Black America
via
American Archive of Public Broadcasting
on
September 1, 1998
partner
Black Champions: Interview with Wilma Rudolph
An Olympic runner reflects on segregation and her first experiences with integrated sports events.
via
American Archive of Public Broadcasting
on
April 11, 1985
Let Justice Roll Down
"Those who expected a cheap victory in a climate of complacency were shocked into reality by Selma."
by
Martin Luther King Jr.
via
The Nation
on
March 16, 1965
‘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
partner
Commentary of a Black Southern Bus Rider
Rosa Parks discusses her refusal to give up a seat to a white man on a Montgomery, Alabama bus in 1955.
by
Rosa Parks
,
KPFA
via
American Archive of Public Broadcasting
on
December 20, 1962
December 1, 1955: Rosa Parks Is Arrested
“This dramatic display of unity may well inspire the Negro residents of other Southern cities to similar action.”
via
The Nation
on
December 24, 1955
partner
How Trump’s Red Wave Builds on the Past
Donald’s Trump’s resounding 2024 victory echoes electoral shifts of the past.
via
Retro Report
on
November 8, 2024
The Making of the Springfield Working Class
Each generation of this country’s workforce has always been urged to detest the next—to come up with its own fantasies of cat-eating immigrants.
by
Gabriel Winant
via
New York Review of Books
on
September 30, 2024
How Racist Policies Destroyed Public Housing and Created the American Suburbs
The systematic post-war displacement of communities of color.
by
Tracy Rosenthal
,
Leonardo Vilchis
via
Literary Hub
on
September 25, 2024
Public Schools, Religion, and Race
It was no coincidence that public school secularization and desegregation were happening, and failing, simultaneously.
by
Leslie Beth Ribovich
via
The Revealer
on
September 5, 2024
Purple Coffins: Death Care and Life Extension in 20th Century American South
How deathly rituals affect our perception of personal dignity.
by
Kristine M. McCusker
via
Circulating Now
on
September 5, 2024
Where MAGA Granddads and Resistance Moms Go to Learn America’s Most Painful History Lessons
Welcome to Colonial Williamsburg, the largest living museum that is taking a radical approach to our national divides.
by
Laura Jedeed
via
Politico Magazine
on
August 31, 2024
partner
Michelle Obama Was Right to Clap Back at Trump on 'Black Jobs'
The idea of "Black jobs" owes to 18th and 19th century divisions of labor designed to uphold slavery and white supremacy.
by
Whitney Nell Stewart
via
Made By History
on
August 28, 2024
How Organized Labor Shames Its Traitors − The Story of the ‘Scab’
It’s important to understand why some workers might be motivated to weather scorn, rejection and even violence from their peers.
by
Ian Afflerbach
via
The Conversation
on
August 23, 2024
In Search of the Broad Highway
Revisiting Meredith v. Fair, we get the inside story of how critical race theory was developed in the years after Brown v. Board of Education.
by
Dave Tell
via
The Hedgehog Review
on
July 26, 2024
The Barrier-Breaking Ozark Club of Great Falls, Montana
The Black-owned club became a Great Falls hotspot, welcoming all to a music-filled social venue for almost thirty years.
by
Ashawnta Jackson
,
Ken Robison
via
JSTOR Daily
on
July 10, 2024
Black Freedom and Indian Independence
Activists including W. E .B. Du Bois in the United States and Lajpat Rai in India drew connections between Black American and Indian experiences of white rule.
by
Livia Gershon
,
Andrea M. Slater
via
JSTOR Daily
on
July 5, 2024
The Stories Hollywood Tells About America
How three movies set on the Fourth of July reproduce popular myth, but reveal even more through what they leave unsaid.
by
Emily Tamkin
via
New Lines Magazine
on
July 4, 2024
What Frederick Douglass Learned from an Irish Antislavery Activist
Frederick Douglass was introduced to the idea of universal human rights after traveling to Ireland and meeting with Irish nationalist leaders.
by
Christine Kinealy
via
The Conversation
on
June 14, 2024
Human Velocity
“The Other Olympians: Fascism, Queerness, and the Making of Modern Sports” upends long-held assumptions about trans people’s participation in sports.
by
Michael Waters
,
Frankie de la Cretaz
via
The Baffler
on
June 7, 2024
The Song of the Summer Is Actually the Song of 1982
Sabrina Carpenter’s “Espresso” is one of several recent hits bringing back the genre that never got a name.
by
Dan Charnas
via
Slate
on
June 4, 2024
The Forgotten Hero of D-Day
Waverly Woodson treated men for 30 hours on Omaha Beach, but his heroism became a casualty of entrenched racism, bureaucracy and Pentagon record-keeping.
by
Garrett M. Graff
via
Politico Magazine
on
June 3, 2024
The Genius of Ella Fitzgerald
She remade the American songbook in her image, uprooting the very meaning of musical performance.
by
Sam Fentress
via
The Nation
on
May 28, 2024
The Lynching That Sent My Family North
How we rediscovered the tragedy in Mississippi that ushered us into the Great Migration.
by
Ko Bragg
via
The Atlantic
on
May 20, 2024
A Young Black Scientist Discovered a Pivotal Leprosy Treatment in the 1920s
Historians are working to shine a light on Alice Ball’s legacy and contributions to an early treatment of a dangerous and stigmatizing disease.
by
Mark M. Lambert
via
The Conversation
on
April 12, 2024
partner
History Explains the Backlash to Beyoncé's 'Cowboy Carter'
Black cowboys made up as much as a quarter of working ranch hands during late 19th century. That legacy has been obscured.
by
Elyssa Ford
,
Rebecca Scofield
via
Made By History
on
April 12, 2024
Cesar Chavez, Family and Filmmaking with Luis Valdez
Luis Valdez on his friendship with Cesar Chavez, his works in the National Film Registry, and a lifetime of activism.
by
Luis Valdez
,
Stacie Seifrit-Griffin
via
Library of Congress Blog
on
March 27, 2024
The True History Behind Netflix's 'Shirley' Movie
A new film dramatizes Shirley Chisholm's history-making bid to become the first Black woman president in 1972.
by
Ellen Wexler
via
Smithsonian
on
March 22, 2024
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