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Fred Hampton Was Right: We Must Fight Racism With Cross-Racial Solidarity
Marginalized people must work together if we hope to survive, much less achieve equality and justice.
Graphic Biography Highlights the Life of Actor and Activist Paul Robeson
“Ballad of an American” tells the tale of Paul Robeson’s role in the earliest civil rights movement to a new generation.
New Book Digs Into Government Files to Keep Alive Memory of Radical Folk Artists
“The Folk Singers and the Bureau” is a vast treatise on the sad interplay between the red-baiters and the folkies.
Reclaiming Possibility: A Rant Against Despair
Fear can crowd out our imaginations and dampen our compassion.
Abolition Is Not Merely a Demand, But a Long-Term Struggle
In the fight for abolition, losing an immediate demand should not deter us from the long-term struggle.
Trump Accused Howard Zinn of “Propaganda.” But Zinn Was Right About US History.
Zinn believed that teaching the unvarnished truth about history was the best way to combat propaganda.
Trump to Black Americans: “You Have to Learn” About “Your History”
The president threatened last week to sign an executive order punishing “anarchists” who destroy statues with jail time.
What New York City’s Cholera Epidemics Can Teach Us in the Age of COVID-19
Like COVID now, the city’s response to cholera in the 1800s was driven by the class and race of those who fell ill.
How Will COVID-19 Change the World?
Historian Frank Snowden discusses epidemics from the Black Death to smallpox to COVID-19.
Formerly Incarcerated People Should Be Compensated for Telling Their Stories
Expecting us to tell our incarceration stories to people who are paid to be there is yet another inequity we suffer.