The Roberts two-step. He takes racism, a system of subjugation and social control, and removes the racists. What’s left is the mark of racism - race. A landmark case about the legitimacy of race hierarchy becomes, the use of race in school placement.
Reader Comments: Supreme Court: Return to Separate and UnEqual; Child Labor; Remembering Pat Fry; Museums that Remember Slavery; Culture Wars Against Education Archive; Ending Climate and Nuclear Crises; lots of Announcements; Cartoons; more....
Wrought iron process that drove British industrial revolution success and colonialism was appropriated from black metallurgists, historical records now suggest.
Paul Peart-Smith, Paul Buhle, and Herb Boyd provide the world with their masterful graphic adaptation and edited interpretation of W. E. B. Du Bois’s great scholarly The Souls of Black Folk - “The Souls of Black Folk: In Its Time…and Ours.”
Thousands of cases involving enslaved people that lawyers and judges continue to cite as good precedent, more than a century after the 13th Amendment abolished slavery in the U.S.
The Supreme Court ruled race-based college admissions are unlawful, ending affirmative action programs at colleges. In her dissent, Supreme Court justice Ketanji Brown Jackson pulled no punches calling the ruling “let-them-eat-cake obliviousness.”
The holiday’s 158-year history holds a lot of meaning in the fight for Black liberation today.
A people's tribune's birthday. Opposing the Vietnam War in 1968. Opposing U.S. imperialism in 1898. Debs' 1918 sedition conviction. A win for abolitionists in 1833. Boycotting Jim Crow in 1953. Thousands say, 'Escalate the war on poverty!' in 1968.
What peanut trading in late 19th century Senegal tells us about the fine line between slavery and freedom.
This book covers more than two centuries of American history, seeking to explain the evolution and enduring power of a racially inflected understanding of freedom.
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