Across the political spectrum, Americans whitewash the working class and exclude labor struggle from black history. Blair LM Kelley’s Black Folk: The Roots of the Black Working Class is a necessary corrective — and provides lessons for struggle today
Every now and then, a voice can matter. Mahalia Jackson had one of them.
Is Jason Aldean the MAGA Bieber? And other questions pondered
The most important of all indictments against the former president: openly and long-time racist businessman and politician being brought up on federal charges by a very powerful civil rights enforcement tool created during the Reconstruction years.
Chi Boy is part memoir, part social history, part eulogy for his ancestors, and part tribute to men whose literary output continues to inspire him.
The right has compiled a glossary of words like “abolition” and “equity” that it deems suspect in classroom contexts.
Comrade Sisters centers photographs and personal accounts of the women who made up over two-thirds of the party.
This lefty publisher is giving out censored books for free in Florida. We know that books in and of themselves don't change the world. But people reading together, learning together, organizing together; people coming together to know these ideas, and to think about how our side wins is actually dangerous.
Thinking about the role that historical testimony played in getting some measure of justice for the Rosewood survivors, it’s hard not to also think about the way that lawmakers in Florida are trying to skew the teaching of history.
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