Since the May 25 murder of George Floyd, the Robert E. Lee monument in Richmond, Virginia, erected in 1890, has been a focus of protests, graffiti, and public pressure calling for the removal of this offensive symbol of Confederate aspiration.
As protests against police brutality grow, calls to abolish the police have become increasingly popular. While those demands have been shocking to many, they're not new. Calls for police abolitionism date to the earliest establishment of the police.
Plantation owners were determined to extract every last bit of labor they could get from enslaved workers, meticulously tracking, documenting, and analyzing their every move in order to maximize productivity and profit.
Lessons from the last stand of steelworkers in Homestead
In the 1920s, Sacco and Vanzetti symbolized the failure of American justice, with massive world-wide protests and a funeral of over 200,000. Yet today they are largely forgotten in the U.S.
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"Moments come and moment pass. But you cannot freeze them if you do not seize them," is the theme of Gene Bruskin's musical exploration of Reconstruction when this nation had the chance to do the right thing. Like then, the moment is still now.
Elizabeth Warren's Washington Square speech before a crowd of 20,000 is part campaign barnstorm and part labor and women's history lesson
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