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How Birth Certificates Are Being Weaponized Against Trans People
A century ago, these documents were used to reinforce segregation. Today, they’re being used to impose binary identities on transgender people.
by
Garrett Epps
via
The Atlantic
on
June 8, 2018
The Defiant Ones
As young girls, they fought the fierce battle to integrate America’s schools half a century ago.
by
Amy Crawford
via
Smithsonian
on
June 1, 2018
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
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The Atlantic
on
May 29, 2018
The Court’s Supreme Injustice
How John Marshall, Joseph Story, and Roger Taney strengthened the institution of slavery and embedded in the law a systemic hostility to fundamental freedom and basic justice.
by
Allen Mendenhall
via
Los Angeles Review of Books
on
May 24, 2018
The Afro-Pessimist Temptation
An examination of the tragic echoes of Reconstruction-era politics following Obama's presidency.
by
Darryl Pinckney
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New York Review of Books
on
May 23, 2018
What Is Loitering, Really?
America’s laws against lingering have roots in Medieval England. The goal has always been to keep anyone “out of place” away.
by
Ariel Aberg-Riger
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CityLab
on
May 21, 2018
partner
How Slave Labor Built the State of Florida—Decades After the Civil War
Behind the whitewashed history of the Sunshine State.
by
Bryan Bowman
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Kathy Roberts Forde
via
Made by History
on
May 17, 2018
Is White Supremacy a System of Corruption?
Before they even learn the details, adherents already know the outcome of real world events. The white guy will be the good guy, no matter what.
by
William Horne
via
The Activist History Review
on
May 4, 2018
partner
How the New Monument to Lynching Unravels a Historical Lie
Lies about history long protected lynching.
by
Nina Silber
via
Made by History
on
May 2, 2018
Home Values Remain Low in Vast Majority of Formerly Redlined Neighborhoods
The long legacy of structural racism in the New Deal-era housing market.
by
Sarah Mikhitarian
via
Zillow Research
on
April 25, 2018
Redlining and Gentrification
Exploring the deep connections between redlining, gentrification, and exclusion in San Francisco.
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Urban Displacement Project
on
April 25, 2018
A New Kind Of City Tour Shows The History Of Racist Housing Policy
Redlining tours explain how policies designed to keep minorities out of certain areas shaped the urban landscapes we see today.
by
Adele Peters
via
Fast Company
on
April 23, 2018
Greater Homeownership isn’t the Answer to Ending Wealth Inequality
Black Americans have just one-tenth of the wealth of white Americans, and the difference in home values is a big part of the problem.
by
Eshe Nelson
via
Quartz
on
April 19, 2018
Real Museums of Memphis
How the National Civil Rights Museum has obscured the ongoing dispossession of African-Americans taking place in its shadow.
by
Zandria Felice Robinson
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Scalawag
on
April 12, 2018
Housing Segregation In Everything
In 1968, the Fair Housing Act made it illegal to discriminate in housing. So why are neighborhoods still so segregated?
by
Gene Demby
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Maria Paz Gutierrez
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Kara Frame
via
NPR
on
April 11, 2018
How the Fair Housing Act Failed Black Homeowners
In many cities, maps of mortgage approvals and home values in black neighborhoods look as they did before the law was passed.
by
Kriston Capps
,
Kate Rabinowitz
via
CityLab
on
April 11, 2018
The Missed Opportunity of the Kerner Report
A new history recovers the forgotten legacy and radical implications of the Kerner Commission.
by
William P. Jones
via
The Nation
on
April 5, 2018
partner
The Democratic Program That Killed Liberalism
How Democrats like Zell Miller and Bill Clinton exacerbated inequality in education
by
Jonathan D. Cohen
via
Made by History
on
March 28, 2018
The Untold Story of Ordinary Black Southerners’ Litigation During the Jim Crow Era
Between the Civil War and the Civil Rights Movement, about a thousand black southerners sued whites who had wronged them.
by
Melissa Milewski
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OUPblog
on
March 27, 2018
How The Sacrifices of Black Civil War Troops Advanced Medicine
A new museum exhibit in Philadelphia showcases the first public health record of African Americans.
by
Ilene Raymond Rush
via
Philly.com
on
March 21, 2018
Still a Long Time Coming
Selma and the unfulfilled promise of civil rights.
by
Elias Rodriques
via
The Nation
on
March 21, 2018
Whitey on the Moon
Gil Scott-Heron's searing 1970 commentary on the nation's economic priorities.
by
Joseph M. Thompson
via
Enviro-History
on
March 16, 2018
Between Obama and Coates
Because both thinkers neglect political economy, they end up promoting a politics that is responsible for the nation's growing inequality.
by
Touré F. Reed
via
Catalyst
on
March 12, 2018
The Data Proves That School Segregation Is Getting Worse
This is ultimately a disagreement over how we talk about school segregation.
by
Alvin Chang
via
Vox
on
March 5, 2018
Why White Southern Conservatives Need to Defend Confederate Monuments
Confederate monuments were essential pieces of white supremacist propaganda.
by
William Sturkey
via
Black Perspectives
on
March 3, 2018
The 1968 Kerner Commission Got It Right, But Nobody Listened
Released 50 years ago, the report concluded that poverty and institutional racism were driving inner-city violence.
by
Alice George
via
Smithsonian
on
March 1, 2018
partner
How the Kerner Commission Unmade American Liberalism
Instead of revitalizing the Democratic coalition, the commission's report exposed the fractures in American society.
by
Steven M. Gillon
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Made by History
on
March 1, 2018
50 Years After the Kerner Commission
African Americans are better off in many ways, but are still disadvantaged by racial inequality.
by
Janelle Jones
,
John Schmitt
,
Valerie Wilson
via
Economic Policy Institute
on
February 26, 2018
Roads to Nowhere: How Infrastructure Built on American Inequality
From highways carved through thriving ‘ghettoes’ to walls segregating areas by race, city development has a divisive history.
by
Johnny Miller
via
The Guardian
on
February 21, 2018
For People of Color, Banks Are Shutting the Door to Homeownership
Reveal’s analysis of mortgage data found evidence of modern-day redlining in 61 metro areas across the country.
by
Aaron Glantz
,
Emmanuel Martinez
via
Reveal
on
February 15, 2018
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