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Gap Pulls ‘Manifest Destiny’ Shirts After Outrage, Twitter Response
by Jorge Rivas on October 15 2012, 6:11PM
When McNairy heard his work was promoting “a belief that has resulted in mass genocide” he took to Twitter to stir the controversy even more.
Topics: Arts & Culture, History, /NOW Blog
On Sapelo Island, Another Case Study in How Black Exploitation Fuels Wealth
by Imara Jones on October 1 2012, 9:37AM
From Georgia to Brooklyn to sub-Sahran Africa, inequity and exploitive land deals are making a handful of people rich—again. But on Sapelo Island, we can stop it.
Topics: Economy, History, Sapelo Island
Statue Honoring KKK Grand Wizard Planned on Alabama Public Land
by Jorge Rivas on September 12 2012, 5:50PM
Renovations on an Alabama monument honoring the Ku Klux Klan’s founder has sparked outrage from critics who are pushing to stop the expansion.
Richard Aoki Documentary Directors Blast FBI Allegations
by Jamilah King on August 22 2012, 11:05AM
The statement calls for Aoki’s supporters to conduct their own research.
Topics: History, National Security, /NOW Blog, Richard Aoki
Richard Aoki, the FBI, and the Long (Ongoing) Saga of State Spying
by Jamilah King on August 21 2012, 9:24AM
A damning new report alleges that the late Black Panther Richard Aoki may have worked as an FBI informant. But is state intervention in progressive movements inevitable?
Topics: History, National Security, Richard Aoki
Texas’ Road To Victory in Its Decades Long Fight Against Voting Rights
by Brentin Mock on July 12 2012, 10:14AM
In 1944, a landmark Supreme Court decision over Texas’ Jim Crow laws changed the arc of voting history. This week, the case that’s expected to change things again began its trip to the Roberts court.
Topics: Voting Rights 2012, History, Politics
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Texas vs. Voting Rights, 1944 to 2012 [Infographic]
by Hatty Lee on July 12 2012, 10:11AM
The state’s current challenge to the Voting Rights Act isn’t new. For decades, it’s put up the nation’s most aggressive fight against federal authority to protect voters of color.
Topics: Voting Rights 2012, History, Politics
The Civil Rights Act Celebrates 48th Anniversary
by Jorge Rivas on July 3 2012, 5:13PM
Signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson on July 2, 1964, the landmark Civil Rights Act outlawed discrimination and segregation regardless of race or color.
Southern Baptists Poised to Elect First Black President
by Jorge Rivas on June 19 2012, 1:19PM
The Southern Baptist Convention is expected to elect its first black president at its annual meeting on Tuesday
Two Decades Later, Children of the L.A. Riots Share Memories
by Jorge Rivas on April 30 2012, 9:48AM
Watch a series of video portraits of young adults who were 8, 9 and 10-year olds during the LA Riots.
Topics: 1992 L.A. Riots, History
Understanding Hipster Racism: Lester Bangs’ 1979 “White Noise Supremacists”
by Channing Kennedy on April 27 2012, 4:30PM
The late rock critic took his scene, and himself, to task for “racist chic” back in 1979. His message and analysis is sadly relevant today.
Topics: Arts & Culture, History
An Interactive Look at the Heavy Price of American Freedom
by Jamilah King on April 25 2012, 8:55AM
An ambitious new timeline traces the brutal relationship between freedom and confinement in the United States.
Topics: Criminal Justice, History
Asians Were Fastest-Growing U.S. Population in Last Decade, Census Finds
by Jorge Rivas on March 22 2012, 1:42PM
According to the 2010 Census, the Asian population grew faster than any other race group in the United States between 2000 and 2010.
Trayvon Martin and the Deadly Legacy of Vigilantism
by Jamilah King on March 20 2012, 10:33AM
A historian’s new look at the legacy of lynching, and its enduring relevance today.
Topics: Criminal Justice, History, Trayvon Martin
End Black History Month? Q&A with Filmmaker Shukree Hassan Tilghman
by Channing Kennedy on February 29 2012, 9:39AM
In a new PBS documentary, a young black filmmaker decides Black History Month has outlasted its purpose, and tries to be proven wrong.
Topics: Arts & Culture, History
Junot Díaz to Publish New Book One Month Ahead of Keynote at Facing Race
by Jorge Rivas on February 28 2012, 3:48PM
Junot Díaz, the Dominican-American, Pulitzer Prize winning Fiction author is releasing a new collection of short stories in September.
L.A. County: Sorry for Tens of Thousands of Deportations in Depression
by Jorge Rivas on February 22 2012, 8:38AM
L.A. County Board of Supervisors formally apologized for deporting “tens of thousands of Mexicans and Mexican Americans living in L.A. County” during the Depression because they were supposedly taking jobs from white U.S. born citizens.
The Asian American Basketball Leagues That Helped Create Linsanity
by Jamilah King on February 21 2012, 9:57AM
It’s estimated that in Southern California alone, there are 14,000 Japanese Americans who play in regular club tournaments. Some teams have been around for more than 50 years.
Topics: Arts & Culture, History, Jeremy Lin
What America Hasn’t Learned 70 Years After Japanese Internment
by Julianne Hing, Hatty Lee on February 17 2012, 9:00AM
Sunday, Feb. 19, marked the 70th anniversary of President Franklin Roosevelt’s signing of Executive Order 9066, which led to the forced internment of more than 120,000 Japanese-Americans.
Topics: History
Activist Patricia Stephens Due Dead at 72
by Jorge Rivas on February 8 2012, 4:59PM
The 72-year-old, whom they called the Joan of Arc of the civil rights movement in Tallahassee, Fla., succumbed on Tuesday after a long fight with thyroid cancer.
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