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Presidents Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush at the funeral of US Senator Zell Miller
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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
Lady Justice statue.

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 via 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
Cover of Newsweek with African American fist and hand reaching up, with the title "The Negro in America: What Must Be Done."

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
Aerial view of burning buildings in Detroit riots, 1967.
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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 via 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

When Government Drew the Color Line

A review of "The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America."
by Jason DeParle via New York Review of Books on February 11, 2018
Boy walking across a dirt road in Biloxi.

How Poverty and Racism Persist in Mississippi

Author Jesmyn Ward on the racism “built into the bones” of the state where she grew up and is choosing to raise her children.
by Jesmyn Ward via The Atlantic on February 1, 2018
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Why Does the U.S. Sentence Children to Life in Prison?

No other nation sentences people to die in prison for offenses committed as minors.
by Katie Rose Quandt via JSTOR Daily on January 31, 2018
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What the Prisoners’ Rights Movement Owes to the Black Muslims of the 1960s

Black Muslims have been an influential force in the prisoners' rights movement and criminal justice reform.
by Christopher E. Smith, Livia Gershon via JSTOR Daily on January 22, 2018

The Man Who Made Black Panther Cool

Christopher Priest broke Marvel's color barrier and reinvented a classic character. Why was he nearly written out of comics history?
by Abraham Josephine Riesman via Vulture on January 22, 2018

Even the Dead Could Not Stay

An illustrated history of urban renewal in Roanoke, Virginia.
by Martha Park via CityLab on January 19, 2018

Martin Luther King’s Radical Anti-Capitalism

As King’s attention drifted to the problems of the urban north, his critiques came to focus on the economic system itself.
by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor via The Paris Review on January 15, 2018
Martin Luther King Jr.

MLK Now

The canonical image of Martin Luther King Jr. neglects many of his most important intellectual, ethical, and political critiques.
by Brandon M. Terry via Boston Review on January 9, 2018
Voters casting ballots in 2008.

How Letting Felons Vote Is Changing Virginia

Governor McAuliffe has embarked on a campaign to grant clemency more often, and to restore the civil rights of convicted felons.
by Vann R. Newkirk II via The Atlantic on January 8, 2018

The Strike That Brought MLK to Memphis

In his final days, King stood by striking sanitation workers. We returned to the city to see what has changed—and what hasn’t.
by Ted Conover via Smithsonian on January 1, 2018

Coates and West in Jackson

America loves pitting black intellectuals against each other, but today's activists need both Coates and West.
by Robin D. G. Kelley via Boston Review on December 22, 2017

Who Segregated America?

For all of its strengths, Richard Rothstein’s new book does not account for the central role capitalism played in segregating America's cities.
by Destin Jenkins via Public Books on December 21, 2017
A prison cell with a television tuned to election coverage.
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Why Felon Disenfranchisement Doesn't Violate the Constitution

The justification can be found in an obscure section of the Fourteenth Amendment.
by Sara Mayeux on December 21, 2017
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Renewing Inequality

An interactive set of maps documenting the more than 300,000 families displaced by urban renewal projects between 1955 and 1966.
by Robert K. Nelson, Brent Cebul, Justin Madron, Nathaniel Ayers via American Panorama on December 13, 2017

Boston. Racism. Image. Reality.

The Boston Globe’s Spotlight Team confronts one of the city’s most vexing issues.
by Akilah Johnson via Boston Globe on December 10, 2017

How Redlining Segregated Philadelphia

Decades after civil rights laws overruled policies that starved non-white neighborhoods of investment, deep disparities linger.
by Jake Blumgart via Next City on December 8, 2017

Before the Bus, Rosa Parks Was a Sexual Assault Investigator

The civil rights icon also played a key role in pursuing justice for the victims of sexual assault.
by Ryan Mattimore via HISTORY on December 8, 2017
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