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“Black History Is an Absolute Necessity.”
A conversation with Colin Kaepernick on Black studies, white supremacy, and capitalism.
by
Colin Kaepernick
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Indigo Olivier
via
The New Republic
on
June 19, 2023
The Long War on Black Studies
It would be a mistake to think of the current wave of attacks on “critical race theory” as a culture war. This is a political battle.
by
Robin D. G. Kelley
via
New York Review of Books
on
June 17, 2023
Juneteenth, Jim Crow
How the fight of one Black Texas family to make freedom real offers lessons for Texas lawmakers trying to erase history from the classroom.
by
Jeffrey L. Littlejohn
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Zachary Montz
via
The Conversation
on
June 16, 2023
Sleepwalking to Madness in Mid-Century America
On Audrey Clare Farley’s “Girls and Their Monsters.”
by
Ellen Wayland Smith
via
Los Angeles Review of Books
on
June 13, 2023
Segregation Doubled the Odds of Some Black Children Dying In U.S. Cities 100 Years Ago
Research shows structural racism in 1900s U.S. society harmed Black health in ways still being felt today.
by
Rodrigo Pérez Ortega
via
Science
on
June 13, 2023
What Really Caused the Destruction of Tulsa’s ‘Black Wall Street’
What happened after the destruction of Greenwood, once home to some of the wealthiest African Americans in the US.
by
Brentin Mock
,
Victor Luckerson
via
CityLab
on
May 30, 2023
partner
Brown v. Board of Education: Annotated
The 1954 Supreme Court decision, based on the Fourteenth Amendment to the US Constitution, declared that “separate but equal” has no place in education.
by
Liz Tracey
via
JSTOR Daily
on
May 17, 2023
Untangling the 19th Century Roots of Mass Incarceration
Popular accounts often trace the origins of forced penal labor to the post-Civil War South. But a vast system of forced penal labor existed in the antebellum North.
by
Rebecca McLennan
via
LPE Project
on
May 16, 2023
The Shame of the Suburbs
How America gave up on housing equality.
by
David Denison
via
The Baffler
on
May 9, 2023
No Breakthrough in Sight
More than fifty years after the Fair Housing Act, inequality and segregation persists. What went wrong?
by
Kaila Philo
via
The Baffler
on
May 9, 2023
A Regional Reign of Terror
Most Americans now grasp that violence was essential to the functioning of slavery, but a new book excavates the brutality of everyday Black life in the Jim Crow South.
by
Eric Foner
via
New York Review of Books
on
March 16, 2023
Red Lights, Blue Lines
Three recent books examine the discrimination and hypocrisy at the heart of policing “vice.”
by
Sarah Schulman
via
New York Review of Books
on
March 3, 2023
partner
We’ve Erased Black Immigrants From Our Story, Obscuring a Racist System
We see our history of racism against Black Americans as distinct from our immigration policy, but the two are actually deeply intertwined.
by
Carly Goodman
via
Made by History
on
February 23, 2023
The Forgotten 1980s Battle to Preserve Africatown
A new book tells the definitive history of an Alabama community founded by survivors of the slave trade.
by
Nick Tabor
via
Smithsonian
on
February 20, 2023
Race and Early American Medical Schools: Review of "Masters of Health"
Medical schools in the antebellum U.S. were critical in the formation of a medical community that shared ideas about racial science.
by
Natalie Shibley
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Nursing Clio
on
February 14, 2023
Civil Rights Legislation Sparked Powerful Backlash that's Still Shaping American Politics
Conservatives and the GOP have mounted a decadeslong legal fight to turn the clock back on the political gains of the civil rights movement.
by
Julian Maxwell Hayter
via
The Conversation
on
February 3, 2023
Uncovering Extrajudicial Black Resistance in Richmond's Civil War Court Records
Historians must read every imperfect archive with a particular perspicacity, to uncover the histories so many archives were meant to suppress or erase.
by
Lois Leveen
via
Muster
on
February 1, 2023
Why Is Wealth White?
In the 20th century, a moral economy of “whites-only” wealth animated federal policies and programs that created the propertied white middle class.
by
Julia Ott
via
Southern Cultures
on
January 30, 2023
The Neoliberal Superego of Education Policy
Institutional reform is no match for pervasive structural inequality.
by
Christopher Newfield
via
Boston Review
on
January 18, 2023
Can Standardized Testing Escape Its Racist Past?
High-stakes testing has struggled with overt and implicit biases. Should it still have a place in modern education?
by
Deborah Blum
via
UnDark
on
December 14, 2022
How African Americans Entered Mainstream Radio
For nearly 50 years, commercial radio companies only employed white broadcasters to target information and entertainment to mainstream America.
by
Bala James Baptiste
via
Black Perspectives
on
December 6, 2022
America’s Blueprint For Urban Inequity Was Drawn in Philly. Where Do We Go From Here?
From a bus line named Jim Crow to racial violence at public parks, racism shaped Philadelphia. Can we imagine a more equitable city?
by
Layla A. Jones
,
Dain Saint
via
Philadelphia Inquirer
on
December 6, 2022
The Emancipators’ Vision
Was abolition intended as a perpetuation of slavery by other means?
by
Sean Wilentz
via
New York Review of Books
on
December 1, 2022
Jerry Jones Helped Transform the NFL, Except When It Comes To Race
Decades after the segregation battles of his youth, Jerry Jones has modernized the NFL’s revenue model but hasn’t hired a Black head coach.
by
David Maraniss
,
Sally Jenkins
via
Washington Post
on
November 23, 2022
The Insular Cases Survive Because the American Legal System Keeps Them Safe
The justices’ decision not to hear challenges to the explicitly racist Insular Cases is part of a long tradition of favoring process over substance.
by
Peter Shamshiri
via
Balls And Strikes
on
November 14, 2022
Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard and the History Behind Colorblind Admissions
Colorblindness has a long history in college admissions, the Black intellectual tradition, and today’s assault on affirmative action and race-conscious policies.
by
Brandon James Render
via
Black Perspectives
on
November 4, 2022
partner
Whites-Only Suburbs: How the New Deal Shut Out Black Homebuyers
Race-based federal lending rules from New Deal programs kept Black families out of suburban neighborhoods, a policy that continues to slow economic mobility.
via
Retro Report
on
November 3, 2022
The Tyranny Of The Map: Rethinking Redlining
In trying to understand one of the key aspects of structural racism, have we constructed a new moralistic story that obscures more than it illuminates?
by
Robert Gioielli
via
The Metropole
on
November 3, 2022
Black Students At Harvard Have Always Resisted Racism
Faculty and staff once owned slaves, and professors taught racial eugenics.
by
Harvard University Presidential Committee on the Legacy of Slavery
via
Teen Vogue
on
November 2, 2022
Rebuilding the Homestead
How Black landowners in eastern North Carolina are recovering generational wealth lost to industry encroachment.
by
Cameron Oglesby
via
The Margin
on
October 25, 2022
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