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Ibram X. Kendi on Recognizing 21st Century Racist Ideas and Policies
Racist policies today are as overt as they always were.
The Breakthrough: Used as “Guinea Pigs” by the US Military, Then Discarded
During World War II, the government subjected thousands of troops to mustard gas tests — and kept it a secret.
History’s Emancipator: Did Abraham Lincoln Have “a Drop of Anti-Slavery Blood in His Veins”?
Ibram X. Kendi chronicles how reluctantly Lincoln came to the idea of emancipation.
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“The Savages Were in the Way”: California’s History of Genocide
Genocide is a twentieth-century word, but it describes an ancient phenomenon.
How the Nazis Used Jim Crow Laws as the Model for Their Race Laws
A conversation with James Whitman about his new book.
Hurricanes Make the Need to Dismantle Colonial Economics in the Caribbean Increasingly Urgent
To survive climate change, the Caribbean must shed its colonial past.
A Conversation About American Racism With Ibram X. Kendi
Prof. Ibram X.Kendi talks with Dr. Christina Greer about the unrelenting racism of the US's past and present.
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Russia Before 1917: Imperial Schemes, Doomed Royals and Young Marxists
An excerpt from “October: The Story of the Russian Revolution.”
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Are Mexicans Indigenous?
Indigeneity applies to the present, not just to the past.
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Mississippi Textbooks Are Keeping Students Ignorant of the Civil Rights Movement
The state's 148 school district use outdated textbooks.