85 issues · 2020–2023
Conservatives decry “War on Christmas” every time someone says “Happy Holidays,” while ignoring actual acts of violence.
The crisis in Congo is the result of decades of colonialization, violence, and the exploitation of the land and its people.
In the U.S., we celebrate freedom fighters and revolutions like Nat Turner's Revolt when they fit our narrative and condemn them when it doesn’t.
Colonialism is often seen through a historical lens despite dispossession and exploitation being a present reality for many current and formerly colonized people.
Bonded by state oppression and violence, the fight for liberation and solidarity between Black-Palestinian people has been seen for decades.
Our understanding of genocide is so narrow that when one meets the criteria, it is rarely seen or accepted.
The 1968 Olympics Black Power salute raised questions about racial justice, “politicized” sports, and solidarity that still resonate today.
Much of the Young Lords' success came from their innate ability to provide hands-on community service programs while also doing attention-grabbing acts of civil disobedience.
The Birmingham Church Bombing anniversary is a time to reflect on the racial violence inherent at the time and how it relates today.
The five-day Attica prison uprising was a fight against inhumane conditions and racial and religious injustices, which still resonates today.
Though it portrays itself as a defender of democracy, the United States has intervened in foreign elections more than any other country.
The devastation of the Hawai'i wildfires is connected to a history of colonialism and U.S. capitalist exploitation.
Sixty years ago, the March on Washington sought to address racial inequality and economic injustice, which still fuels disparities today.
Black August honors the revolutionary work of Black freedom fighters who were enslaved, persecuted, incarcerated, and murdered while resisting against the state.
Residents of the U.S. territories were categorized as "sort of" Americans by the Supreme Court, which has led to their continued exploitation and neglect.
A group of Black boys were criminalized for breaking into a public pool, echoing a history of banning Black people from public swimming spaces.
From Indigenous appropriation to the exclusion of marginalized youths, the legacy of summer camp racism persists to the present day.
For Pride Month, we explore the catalyst for its existence: the Stonewall Uprising.
Unequal access to public beaches and pools spurred a form of civil disobedience called wade-ins that would help desegregate the country.
Some schools are switching from the universally used Mercator projection, igniting discussions on how maps influence our worldview.
Recent attacks on contraception threaten to undo decades of progress made by the landmark Griswold v. Connecticut ruling.
Thousands of white servicemen and civilians attacked Mexican American, Black, and Filipino youth during the 1943 Zoot Suit Riots.
The Transcontinental Railroad is hailed as one of the country's greatest engineering feats, but the immigrants who built it have long been ignored.
The last remaining survivors of the Tulsa Race Massacre seek reparations as the city continues to skirt justice.
The anniversary of the "Ain't I a Woman" speech and recent MLK Jr revelations are a reminder of why history must not only be preserved but corrected.
De facto residential segregation is increasing today, creating segregated hospitals, schools, and transportation systems—the very things permitted by Plessy v. Ferguson.
The 1992 Los Angeles riots were sparked by a series of injustices by the criminal justice system against marginalized people that remain unaddressed 30 years later.
“In God We Trust” is a key example of U.S. civil religion: an ideology that has often cloaked abuses of power in the trappings of religious faith.
Recent discussions of the U.S. invading Mexico follow a history of the U.S. invading and meddling in Latin America, including the Bay of Pigs invasion.
The Fair Housing Act broke down barriers in the housing market, but over a century of discriminatory practices continue to linger.
The Combahee River Collective Statement advocated that society be reorganized based on the collective needs of those who it most oppresses.
Though Irish people suffered from colonization, the “Irish were slaves first” story is used to attack the struggle for racial justice.
As a result of government apathy to the growing public health crisis, ACT UP used civil disobedience to fight for HIV/AIDs patients' rights.
Often miscategorized as internment, the incarceration of Japanese Americans in 1942 is yet another instance of American cruelty in action.
The signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ended the U.S. invasion of Mexico, but the effects continue to impact Latine communities today.
Growing attacks on anti-racist education threaten Holocaust education and feed into antisemitism.
The Watsonville Riots was a violent attack on Filipino farmworkers by a mob of white residents in the city of Watsonville, California, between January 19 and January 30, 1930.
Fred Hampton's message remains relevant today, with poor communities in Chicago and around the U.S. facing the same deprivations.
Proposals to replace policing with social work ignore the past and present role of a system that implements and oversees racist policies in the United States.
Initiatives like land rematriation aren't just reparations but a clear way to dismantle white supremacy and center Indigenous communities.
The 1969 occupation of Alcatraz Island was aimed at decolonizing the island from the colonial government of the United States.
News of the BTS army draft is a reminder of the U.S. proxy war whose burden has fallen on Korean citizens on both sides of the border.
Beyond the legal segregation of the Jim Crow South, the U.S. is full of municipalities that were dangerous for Black travelers.
The Supreme Court reviews a case that, if upheld, will reverse strides in rectifying the cultural genocide and displacement of Native families.
Like the MOVE bombing victims, museums hold the remains of marginalized communities, often without community support or consent.
Since its publication, the 1619 Project has been challenged by conservatives for attempting to fix the historical whitewashing of American slavery.
A pair of vintage Levi's jeans sold in an auction had the brand's old slogan, "the only kind made by white labor," printed on its pockets.
Although Labor Day originates from the labor movement, its passage did little to help the exploited workers it aimed to honor, even to this day.
Estranging historical tragedies like slavery and genocide as relics of the past, unrelated to modern times, wrongly validates the hosting of plantation weddings and other cruelties in U.S history.
In the age of growing voter suppression, understanding the history of the Voting Rights Act is critical in ensuring access.
Solidarity amongst marginalized groups requires education, organizing, and work but is essential in dismantling white supremacy.
“What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” is a scathing critique of the failed promises of the Declaration of Independence to Black enslaved people.
Juneteenth commemorates the ending of slavery in the United States, yet more than 150 years later, Black people continue to fight for their rights and freedom.
The introduction of the Puerto Rico Status Act acknowledges the history of colonization against the island and sets a path for radically shifting the island's relationship with the U.S.
Loitering laws date back to the Jim Crow era when laws were designed to trap Black people in the convict leasing system.
Memorial Day is one example of how the whitewashing of U.S. history enables the minimizing of the contributions and injustice of Black people in favor of whiteness.
Racial hoaxing incidents often resulted in violence and injustices against Black people, like the Rosewood Massacre, Groveland Four, and the lynching of Emmett Till.
Antisemitic incidences continue to rise due to the spread of racist misinformation and lack of education on the Holocaust.
Unlike the unjust trials of the Scottsboro Boys, white vigilantism often ended in lynchings, one of which inspired the song "Strange Fruit."
After 200 years, the government will finally implement anti-lynching legislation which will make lynchings in America a hate crime.
More than 50 years since his death, W.E.B. Du Bois' biography and work prove to be treasure troves for those confronting racial capitalism and white supremacist violence today.
The White House symbolizes this country’s unique commitment to liberty and justice for all. Yet, the forced labor of enslaved people literally laid the foundation for American democracy.
Malcolm X was a major figure of the Civil Rights Movement who promoted Black nationalism, self-defense, and liberation before his assassination in 1965. His life, legacy, and death are still remembered more than 50 years later.
Whoopi Goldberg’s Holocaust comments on The View inaccurately claimed that the genocide of millions of Jews was not about race. During the Holocaust, Jewish people were labeled as an “inferior race” by the Nazis, echoing similar eugenicist beliefs held in the U.S. during that time.
Many marginalized people can’t trace their ancestral roots due to forced relocation, enslavement, immigration, and premature death. While white people are at an advantage in both DNA testing and genealogy.
Black History Month is more than reading about the Black achievements, stories, people, and movements that shaped the U.S. It's essential to take these readings and teachings and put them into action.
The legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. has been whitewashed and gentrified. To honor him, we must remember him in his entirety and not just what's been deemed "appropriate."
Whether it’s a question of sovereignty, preservation, or spirituality, there’s much to unpack with the U.S.'s legacy of land ownership.
Vigilantes and law enforcement groups have long worked together to create and protect the racial order in the United States.
Western museums are predominantly white spaces that profit off stolen artifacts from people of color in the pursuit of the white and European gaze.
911 was created in part to thwart demands for racial justice. That’s why groups around the country are creating new infrastructure to deal with emergencies.
A reflection on the day Ruby Bridges walked to school and role of white protestors to prevent racial integration in education.
The prison system tolerates and creates sexual violence against incarcerated people. The pervasive nature of this violence led to legislation like the Prison Rape Elimination Act.
Columbus Day represents the history of colonization and the erasure of Indigenous communities. Learn about the movement to change it.
In November 2009, the South African government and U.N. General Assembly declared July 18th Nelson Mandela International Day.
The borders of racial categories are malleable, contested, and change over time. But believing that demographic changes will inevitably cause the racial hierarchy to fade away ignores centuries of evidence to the contrary.
Interpreting the Founding Fathers’ wishes is a staple of American political discourse. Constitutional originalism is more of a conservative thing, but really, Founding Father mindreading cuts across the ideological spectrum. The Founding Fathers would have hated partisanship (History) or Trump (Foreign Policy) or gun control (History) or not having gun control (HuffPost). Obama informed us, helpfully, that the Founding Fathers didn’t want presidents to serve three year terms (ABC). The Atlantic told us the Founders would have been especially disgusted by Trump’s pardon of the former owner of the San Francisco 49ers (The Atlantic).
In 1921, a white mob rampaged through Tulsa, Oklahoma’s Black Wall Street, burning, killing, and looting until they destroyed one of the few contemporary centers of Black wealth in the United States. This May, after a century, the Tulsa City Council finally acknowledged the horrifying massacre and announced it would investigate paying reparations to Tulsa’s Black citizens. We have five days to pressure Tulsa City Council to adopt a reparations resolution that would go beyond mere acknowledgement and begin to make right past harm, discrimination, and violence that continue to affect Black communities.
But race is a social construct, and social constructs have social histories. Our modern understanding of race was created at a specific historical juncture in colonial Virginia. Prior to that, it did not exist.
COINTELPRO, a series of covert and illegal initiatives by the FBI, and its impact on Black activism in the 1960s.
Black farmers lost 870,000 farms in the past 60 years. Now, Black farmers advocate for agricultural education in their communities.
Historically, interpretations of classical art are based on preconceived notions of anti-blackness when whiteness is seen as the standard.
The Texas Rangers law enforcement agency is mythologized in popular media as moral defenders of the law, ignoring a long history of violence.
Many professional sports teams, such as the Kansas City Chiefs, have names or mascots that revere genocide and racial violence.