Activists paid for the Voting Rights Act in blood. The supreme court has undermined itThe supreme court paved the way for racial discrimination in voting, 60 years after Martin Luther King Jr and thousands of other movement leaders bled, marched and mobilized for Congress to outlaw it. This is...READ MORE
The life of civil rights hero Claudette Colvin should teach us this: resistance is collective, and it never stopsClaudette Colvin, who died in a hospice in Texas, did her job while she was here on the planet, although it was several decades before her physical and material sacrifice was acknowledged. On March 2,...READ MORE
The U.S. left Vietnam 50 years ago today; the media hasn’t learned its lessonThe last helicopter liftoff from the roof of the American embassy in Saigon on April 30, 1975, marked the end of the Vietnam war. Fifty years later, mythology about U.S. media coverage of the war...READ MORE
DNA of enslaved iron workers illuminates African American historyNot far from Camp David, the U.S. presidential retreat in Catoctin Mountain Park in Maryland, lies the remnants of an iron forge called Catoctin Furnace founded in the late 18th century, an important site for...READ MORE
For Emmett Till’s family, national monument proclamation cements his inclusion in the American storyWhen President Joe Biden signed a proclamation Tuesday establishing a national monument honoring Emmett Till and his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, it marked the fulfillment of a promise Till’s relatives made after his death 68 years...READ MORE
Matilda Joslyn Gage: The suffragist who defied the US governmentShe propelled women’s rights, admired Indigenous societies and sought to impeach the US government. So why has history all but forgotten her name? On the western edge of Fayetteville, New York, East Genesee Street cuts...READ MORE
The life of civil rights hero Claudette Colvin should teach us this: resistance is collective, and it never stops
