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African-American child with polio

Racial Health Disparities Didn’t Start With Covid: The Overlooked History of Polio

The coronavirus pandemic has highlighted racial disparities with roots in the past.

via Retro Report on March 16, 2021

Roundabout at the George Floyd memorial, at the intersection of 38th Street and Chicago Avenue.

George Floyd and a Community of Care

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

by G. E. Patterson via Places Journal on March 1, 2021

The Murder Chicago Didn’t Want to Solve

In 1963, a Black politician named Ben Lewis was shot to death in Chicago. Decades later, it remains no accident authorities never solved the crime.

by Mick Dumke via ProPublica on February 25, 2021

Collage of images related to Monopoly's history

The Prices on Your Monopoly Board Hold a Dark Secret

The property values of the popular game reflect a legacy of racism and inequality.

by Mary Pilon via The Atlantic on February 21, 2021

Protestors holding signs on a bridge

Fighting School Segregation Didn't Take Place Just in the South

In the 1950s, Harlem mother Mae Mallory fought a school system that she saw as 'just as Jim Crow' as the one she had attended in the South.

by Ashley D. Farmer via The Conversation on February 10, 2021

Artistic photo of Malcolm X

Malcolm’s Ministry

At the end of his remarkable, improbable life, Malcolm X was on the cusp of a reinvention that might have been even more significant than his conversion.

by Brandon M. Terry via New York Review of Books on February 4, 2021

Black man holding a protest sign that says "you may be next!"; cover image of book The Condemnation of Blackness.

Lying with Numbers

How statistics were used in the urban North to condemn Blackness as inherently criminal.

by Mary F. Corey via Los Angeles Review of Books on January 29, 2021

A noose hanging in front of the Capitol.

Why America Loves the Death Penalty

A new book frames this country’s tendency toward state-sanctioned murder as a unique cultural inheritance.

by Josephine Livingstone via The New Republic on January 11, 2021

Rudy Giuliani and a graphic that says "multiple pathways to victory."

Disenfranchisement: An American Tradition

Invoking the specter of voter fraud to undermine democratic participation is a tactic as old as the United States itself.

by Julilly Kohler-Hausmann via Dissent on January 10, 2021

Portrait of Martin Delany in uniform

The Organizer’s Mind of Martin Delany

Delany's insistence on interest-based coalitions, evident in his fiction and political prose, explains his late-Reconstruction defection to the Democrats and his strategies for revolution.

by Andrew Donnelly via Insurrect! on January 4, 2021

a picture of protestors

How Will We Remember the Protests?

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.

by Myles Poydras, Nicole Mo via The Atlantic on December 31, 2020

‘A Land Where the Dead Past Walks’

Faulkner’s chroniclers have to reconcile the novelist’s often repellent political positions with the extraordinary meditations on race, violence, and cruelty in his fiction.

by Brenda Wineapple via New York Review of Books on December 20, 2020

A courtroom in Milwaukee, 1930.

How Did We End Up With Our Current Public Defender System?

Without a more fundamental transformation of criminal law, public defenders often provide only a limited form of equality and fairness before the law.

by Matthew Clair via The Nation on December 14, 2020

A man sitting at a table

Aaron Sorkin’s Inane, Liberal History Lesson

Why his reformist retelling of the Chicago Seven fails to tell the real story of the leftists on trial.

by Charlotte Rosen via The Nation on November 3, 2020

Book entitled: This Little Book Contains Every Reason Why Women Should Not Vote, 1917

Why Women Should Not Vote (1917)

A humorous 1917 blank notebook invites consideration of the fight for women’s suffrage in the USA.

by Melissa McCarthy via The Public Domain Review on October 27, 2020

A house and an american flag

A Disaster 100 Years in the Making

Covid-19 and climate change are drastically intensifying insecurity in New Orleans.

by Eric Klinenberg via New York Review of Books on October 22, 2020

Register to Vote sign

Disenfranchisement in Jails Weakens Our Democracy

Hidden disenfranchisement is as much of a problem as long lines at the polls.

by Charlotte Rosen via Made by History on October 21, 2020

New York

The So-Called 'Kidnapping Club' Featured Cops Selling Free Black New Yorkers Into Slavery

Outright racism met financial opportunity when men like Isiah Rynders accrued wealth through legal, but nefarious, means.

by Jonathan Daniel Wells via Smithsonian on October 14, 2020

Donald Trump and Joe Biden behind podiums during the first presidential debate of 2020

President Trump Gets the Suburbs All Wrong

His conception of what appeals to suburban voters is frozen in the past.

by Michelle Nickerson via Made by History on October 1, 2020

Black women, oil painting

Rebellious History

Saidiya Hartman’s "Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments" is a strike against the archives’ silence regarding the lives of Black women in the shadow of slavery.

by Annette Gordon-Reed via New York Review of Books on October 1, 2020

From Home to Market: A History of White Women’s Power in the US

The heart-tug tactics of 1950s ads steered white American women away from activism into domesticity. They’re still there.

by Ellen Wayland Smith via Aeon on September 17, 2020

Illustration of 9/11 inside outline of girl

The Children of 9/11 Are About to Vote

What the youngest cohort of American voters thinks about politics, fear and the potential of the country they’ve grown up in.

by Garrett M. Graff via Politico Magazine on September 11, 2020

Protestors against eviction.

Covid-19 Has Exposed the Consequences of Decades of Bad Public Housing Policy

A reduction in public housing units left Americans at the mercy of private landlords.

by Gillet Gardner Rosenblith via Made by History on September 8, 2020

A race wall

A Nation of Walls

An artist-activist catalogues the physical remnants of 'segregation walls,' unassuming bits of racist infrastructure that hide in plain sight in neighborhoods.

by Chat Travieso via Places Journal on September 1, 2020

Fidel Castro and Malcom X sitting and laughing together

'Ten Days in Harlem': An Interview with Historian Simon Hall

Fidel Castro's visit to Harlem at the intersection of two themes that shaped the 1960s: the Black freedom struggle and global protest during the Cold War.

by Say Burgin, Simon Hall via Black Perspectives on August 31, 2020

Demonstrators surround a police car during the Watts uprising in 1965

Understanding Today’s Uprisings Requires Understanding What Came Before Them

The media must make the long years of organizing as visible as the eruptions and uprisings.

by Jeanne Theoharis via Made by History on August 11, 2020

Daycare classroom

Richard Nixon Bears Responsibility for the Pandemic’s Child-Care Crisis

The policy roots of today’s childcare crisis.

by Anna K. Danziger Halperin via Made by History on August 6, 2020

A graphic depicting covid-19 with a plane on top of it.

Emerging Diseases, Re-Emerging Histories

The diseases that prove best suited to global expansion are those that best exploit humans' global networks and behaviors in a given age.

by Monica H. Green via Centaurus on July 27, 2020

Racism on the Road

In 1963, after Sam Cooke was turned away from a hotel in Shreveport, Louisiana, because he was black, he wrote “A Change Is Gonna Come.” He was right.

by Sarah A. Seo via New York Review of Books on July 23, 2020

When Conservatives Called to Freeze Police Budgets

The loudest opponents to police funding were once fiscal conservatives.

by David Helps via The Metropole on July 22, 2020

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