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Racism
Within the first six months of the first session of the 88th Congress, over 100 civil rights...
Dr. King was a giant, but history is also made by ordinary people standing up for what’s...
The violence against African-Americans in Selma had a domino effect. Introduction Late in the afternoon of March...
Conservatives have a long history of contorting his words to further political goals at odds with his...
There are dozens of these groups on both sides of the Atlantic with martial names drawn from...
From the anti-slavery movement to civil rights, African Americans have defined freedom and shaped the American experience....
We must denounce white nationalism as the world is threatened by increasing political support for this ideology....
One of the saddest truths about eugenics is that it never went away. Introduction When A-level grades...
Textbooks in the early 20th century said Reconstruction was a gross error and black people needed to...
What was needed then – and in succeeding decades as political defeats – was to keep hope...
It is is due largely to huge contributions from Christian nationalist PACs. Just over a decade ago,...
The rise of white nationalism and the violence of extremist militia groups is a dangerous domestic terrorism...
A white mob dragged an innocent man’s body to City Hall and burned it before a crowd...
They don’t talk about lethal white supremacy in Florida. It hurts Republicans’ feelings. Introduction It took Ron...
Whites enjoyed the highest standard of living in all of Africa while the black majority remained disadvantaged....
Republicans are more likely to agree that “some violence may be necessary to get the country back...
There have been many other killings of this kind in America’s history. In May 2022, a white...
Cotton oligarchs worked to undercut African American demands for fair wages and human rights by replacing them....
It can be seen as far back as the “White Hands” ad that late North Carolina Sen....
Things changed when the GOP opposed voting rights for Blacks after the first half of the 20th...
Local control over school funding leads to uneven resources between districts. Introduction Nearly 70 years ago –...
This legislation was asked for by President Grant and passed within one month of when he sent...
In places where local laws did not require segregation, Jim Crow harassment enforced it. Introduction The Citizens’ Councils (commonly...
The first time the specter of interracial sex was used by Whites to foment hysteria occurred in...
The years growing up within—and moving through—the racist apartheid order that loomed over the U.S. South. Introduction...
These articles, videos, podcasts and websites chronicle the history of anti-black violence and inequality in the United...
Several of our most prestigious army posts actually honor the enemy. I grew up with a series...
The story of the son of a mother of mixed Choctaw and Black ancestry whose freedom had...
Understanding why and how land loss continues to reproduce black dispossession. After hundreds of years of violence...