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Jon Wiener

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The Predictable Backlash to Critical Race Theory: A Q&A With Kimberlé Crenshaw

“Wherever there is race reform, there’s inevitably retrenchment.”

by Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw, Jon Wiener via The Nation on July 5, 2021
“No Matter How Different the Movements Were, the LAPD Targeted Every One of Them”

From the Black Panthers to the Communist Party, radical Los Angeles in the ’60s was a seething cauldron of unrest, united by the brutal repression of the LAPD.

by Mike Davis, Jon Wiener, Meagan Day via Jacobin on May 29, 2020
Vietnam in the Battlefield of Memory

On the war's 50th anniversary, peace activists will be challenging the Pentagon's whitewashed history.

by Jon Wiener via The Nation on April 15, 2015

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Radical Movements in 1960s L.A.

A review of "Set The Night on Fire", an inspiring book that points to a new generation of activists who remain unbowed by conservative historiographies.

by Ryan Reft via The Metropole on January 11, 2021

The Many Explosions of Los Angeles in the 1960s

Set the Night on Fire isn't just a portrait of a city in upheaval. It's a history of uprisings for civil rights, against poverty, and for a better world.

by Samuel Farber via Jacobin on June 29, 2020

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Notes from the Cold War Underground

The weapons infrastructure of the Cold War is now getting rented out on Airbnb or memorialized as patriotic kitsch.

by Emily Harnett via The Baffler on October 22, 2024

The History of the “Riot” Report

How government commissions became alibis for inaction.

by Jill Lepore via The New Yorker on June 15, 2020

All the Presidents’ Librarians

Presidential libraries are too important for historians to ignore.

by Michael Koncewicz via Contingent on July 19, 2019

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