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The Most Committed Are the Uncommitted

Jeet Heer The Nation
A growing movement of “uncommitted” Democratic voters are making it impossible for the Biden White House to remain complacent about Israel’s war on Gaza.

This Week in People’s History, Mar 19–25

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Supporters of striking hospital workers marching through Charleston, S.C.
Hospital Workers Win (in 1969), Virginia Racists Split Hairs (1924), Anti-Racist Education Rules (1969), Protesters Beat the Rap (1969), German Troops in Rome (1944), The Fork Not Taken (1989), An Unemployed Army (1894), Transatlantic Slave Trade

The Booksellers’ Revolt

Maththew Patin / The Texas Observer The Texas Observer
The READER Act would have required vendors to rate books on "explicitness" before selling to schools—and blacklisted those that didn't comply.

The Black Box of Race

Henry Louis Gates Jr. The Atlantic
In a circumscribed universe, Black Americans have ceaselessly reinvented themselves.

A New Alliance Could Change Puerto Rican Politics

Rafael Bernabe, Ed Morales Jacobin
The Citizens’ Victory Movement and the Puerto Rican Independence Party are forming a coalition called La Alianza. Their goal: a radical shift in Puerto Rican politics.