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University of Michigan women’s basketball team, 1977

This Is Standby Alert

The history of the battle to keep Title IX out of college sports.

by Matthew Lindaman via HNN on April 2, 2024

Greenpeace demonstrators opposing drilling.

Liberal Activists Have to Think Broadly and Unite Across Lines

The forgotten environmental action that pointed the path forward for the left.

by Matthew D. Lassiter via Made By History on March 11, 2020

A comic overview of vaccine development production trials to deliveries.

The Last Time a Vaccine Saved America

Sixty-six years ago, people celebrated the polio vaccine by embracing in the streets. Our vaccine story is both more extraordinary and more complicated.

by Howard Markel via The New Yorker on April 12, 2021

Illustration of Cedric Robinson by Joe Ciardiello.

Cedric Robinson’s Radical Democracy

Rejecting the resignation of the 1970s and ’80s, Robinson found in the disinvested ruins of the city a new egalitarian form of politics.

by Jared Loggins via The Nation on April 18, 2022

Photographer Leni Sinclair in a crowd filming an event.

When Detroit Was Revolutionary

In the 1960s and 1970s, photographer Leni Sinclair stood at the center of a local scene where political and cultural ferment merged.

by Leni Sinclair, Billy Anania via Jacobin on July 7, 2021

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