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Racial Justice
Black Disenfranchisement Has Not Been This Intense Since Jim Crow
The federal government is carrying forward a white nationalist backlash to the mass uprisings that took place in 2020.
GOP and SCOTUS Unleashed a “Gerrymandering Arms Race” at Expense of Black Voters
Without the Voting Rights Act, “multiracial democracy in America will be under threat forever,” reporter Ari Berman says.
500-Year-Old Slave Revolt of 1526 Redefines Freedom as US Turns 250
Before 1776 or 1619, enslaved Africans seized freedom in 1526 on land that would become the United States.
Trump Relies on Centuries-Old Notions of Whiteness to Activate His MAGA Base
Whiteness is baked into the US’s DNA. Can it be structurally dismantled?
US, Israel Vote Against UN Resolution Condemning Translatlantic Slave Trade
The resolution overwhelmingly passed with 123 votes in favor and only the US, Israel, and Argentina voting against.
Black Seniors Without Birth Records Could Be Disenfranchised by SAVE America Act
One-fifth of Black Americans born in 1939 and 1940 were never issued birth certificates, according to one estimate.
In Era of Book Bans and War on History, Sinners Reveals What US Tries to Forget
Sinners deserves to win Oscars: It’s a blues poem, a freedom cry, and a love letter to powerful culture.
Reproductive Tech That Promises Smart Babies Is Peddling Soft Eugenics
Geneticists must not become unwitting enablers of the resurgence of such pseudo-scientific ideas.
We Must Defend Black History — It Fuels Freedom Dreams of Students Under Attack
Historian Elizabeth Todd-Breland discusses how schools have become a key site of struggle amid rising fascism in the US.
Robin D. G. Kelley: It’s Not Enough to Abolish ICE — We Have to Abolish Police
“What’s happening now has happened before,” Kelley said, underscoring the anti-Blackness foundational to US fascism.