The Haitian filmmaker has spent 40 years using the archives to combat historical erasure and to highlight the people’s version of the past.
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Nearly every Black resident in Montgomery refused to ride city buses. They walked, biked, took taxis, carpooled, and even rode mules for 382 days.
From Schwerner and Goodman to Good and Pretti, white people putting themselves in harm’s way has helped galvanize Americans for justice.
The challenges Chicago’s progressive mayor, Brandon Johnson, has faced demonstrate that Mayor Zohran Mamdani in New York will have to out-organize what’s soon to be a mighty opposition to his every move from finance, insurance, and real estate intere
“We, as feminists today, like domestic workers in the 1970s and in the early 2000s, need to think outside the box...We can’t think about domestic work as an individual issue within the household, but as a structural problem....”
The president’s latest criticism of museums is a thinly veiled attempt to erase Black history.
Being a historian during Trump 2.0 is to witness a renewal of debunked mythologies and outdated ideas made fresh by a state apparatus deeply invested in protecting the historical reputation of whiteness.
Historian Bennett Parten's new book, Somewhere Toward Freedom, focuses on the experience of those who seized a chance at emancipation. “Through the collective weight and power of their movement, [they] found a way to essentially be in the room.”
Since taking office in January, President Trump has tried to reframe the country’s past involving racism and discrimination by de-emphasizing that history or at times denying that it happened.
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