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Illinois Becomes First State to Mandate Teaching Asian American History in K-12
The TEAACH Act is an opportunity to remake how we teach U.S. history from a framework of social justice and diversity.
The US Government Wants Palestine to Fade From View. Don’t Let It.
The U.S. is perfectly happy to let its role in underwriting the daily violence of Israeli occupation go unnoticed.
The Big Lie Will Go Down in Revisionist History Like the Civil War “Lost Cause”
The followers of today's new “lost cause” have become Donald Trump's Confederacy of dunces.
Germany Gave My Family Reparations. Palestinians Deserve the Same From Israel.
Thousands of Jews in Israel get reparations for expulsion and persecution, yet Israel denies the same for Palestinians.
Spree of Anti-Asian Violence Has Long Roots — Including Terror in 1990s Philly
To confront anti-Asian violence, we must unearth buried histories and stop erasing “imperfect victims” from our memory.
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.