Haitian scholar was early path-breaking anthropologist anthropology history Article 1347 words, published May 17 2023 7 votes
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Hollywood loved Sammy Davis Jr. until he dated a white movie star ~humanities.history Article 2191 words 9 votes
The Jim Crow North: You probably know about the long fight against segregation in the South. But civil rights struggles in the rest of the nation have often been overlooked. ~humanities.history Link 9 votes
The little-known Einstein: An ardent defender of black Americans against racism ~humanities.history Article 923 words, published Jun 12 2020 10 votes
What Jim Crow taught the Nazis: In the 1930s, the Nazi regime were fascinated by the global leader in codified race law — the United States ~humanities.history Article 1541 words, published Oct 3 2017 9 votes
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In the decades before the American civil war, violence broke out in Congress too ~humanities.history Article 1485 words, published Oct 22 2018 7 votes
How the Democratic party went from being the party of slavery and white supremacy to electing Barack Obama ~humanities.history Video 6:05, published Nov 7 2016 5 votes
How Southern socialites rewrote civil war history ~humanities.history Video 6:56, published Oct 25 2017 3 votes
How to deal with a racist past: A Bristol pub leads the way ~humanities.history Article 316 words, published Jul 1 2020 5 votes
When proof is not enough: Throughout history, evidence of racism has failed to effect change ~humanities.history Article 2029 words 11 votes
What is owed: If true justice and equality are ever to be achieved in the United States, the country must finally take seriously what it owes Black Americans ~humanities.history Article 8675 words 8 votes
Phil Vischer, creator of VeggieTales, explains the history of racial inequality in America ~humanities.history Video 17:52 20 votes
The case for reparations: We've had 250 years of slavery, 90 years of Jim Crow, 60 years of separate but equal and 35 years of racist housing policy. Without addressing this, the US can't move on ~humanities.history Article 14 406 words, published Jun 3 2014 32 votes
"[R]iots do not develop out of thin air. [...] in the final analysis, a riot is the language of the unheard." MLK, Jr., 1967 ~humanities.history Article 5844 words 9 votes
How white backlash controls American progress: Backlash dynamics are one of the defining patterns of the country’s history ~humanities.history Article 3263 words 8 votes
How America is victim-blaming the coronavirus dead: As racism warps the US pandemic response, a health crisis has escalated into a culture war ~humanities.history Article 2023 words 5 votes
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Martin Luther King Jr. had a few words to say about calls for ‘civility’ ~humanities.history Article 1062 words, published Jun 26 2018 12 votes
The pirate radio broadcaster who occupied Alcatraz and terrified the FBI ~humanities.history Article 3694 words, published Jan 16 2019 11 votes
In Mississippi, Jim Crow era laws result in a high rate of black kids charged as adults ~humanities.history Article 6647 words 6 votes
Vicious bigotry, reluctant acceptance: How Italians became "White" ~humanities.history Article 2219 words 8 votes
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How a historian uncovered Ronald Reagan's 1971 racist remarks to Richard Nixon ~humanities.history Article 2517 words 15 votes
Red Summer: 100 years ago, White mobs across the country attacked Black people. And they fought back ~humanities.history Article 9 votes