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Re-Branding Revolution: 7 Icons Pimped for Profit and Empire
by Stokely Baksh, Jamilah King on May 25 2011, 12:40PM
Chavez as a Navy ship? Ghandi as a corporate salesman? Here’s a handful of the most laughable appropriations of radical political history.
Topics: History
Study: Whites Think ‘Reverse Racism’ is on the Rise
by Asraa Mustufa on May 24 2011, 2:45PM
Researchers at Tufts University and Harvard Business School prove that we’re still missing the point on institutional privilege.
Topics: History
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If Black Power’s Not Gone, Where Is It? [Reader Forum]
by Channing Kennedy on May 16 2011, 9:30AM
Victor Goode and Tim Jones-Yelvington add context and questions to the ongoing conversation about racial and political identities.
50 Years After Freedom Rides, a Stunning Film Revives the Heroism
by Jamilah King on May 16 2011, 9:02AM
Filmmaker Stanley Nelson talks about the incredible journey of some of the civil rights movement’s youngest and most fearless leaders.
Topics: History
What Ever Happened to Black Power? (And Do We Care?)
by Reniqua Allen on May 12 2011, 10:19AM
A new Malcolm X biography has put black nationalism in the news again. Reniqua Allen looks back, and forward, at the political ideology he helped popularize.
Topics: History
19 Years After L.A.’s Uprising, What’s Changed?
by Thoai Lu, Hatty Lee on May 4 2011, 8:51AM
Black, brown and Asian communities are still searching for answers two decades after one of the nation’s deadliest urban uprisings.
Topics: History
The Love Story That Made Marriage a Fundamental Right
by Asraa Mustufa on April 27 2011, 10:16AM
A new documentary brings to life Richard and Mildred Loving’s quiet activism against race-mixing laws at this week’s Tribeca Film Festival.
Topics: Arts & Culture, History
Alabama Senate Apologizes to Recy Taylor for 1944 Rape Case
by Benjamin Greenberg on April 22 2011, 9:01AM
Taylor’s case has been a symbol of the sexual violence black women suffered for decades.
Topics: History
The Long Racial History of the Tea Party’s Deficit Trojan Horse
by Dorian Warren on April 13 2011, 10:30AM
The American right has been railing against the size of federal government for centuries. We’d do well to remember why.
On DJ Mister Cee, Malcolm X and Online Homophobia
by Akiba Solomon on April 11 2011, 10:31AM
How should we deal with the kinds of comments littering Mister Cee and Malcolm X threads?
Topics: Akiba Solomon, Gender & Sexuality, Hip-Hop & LGBT, History
We’re Nowhere Near the Mountaintop King Described Before His Death
by Kai Wright on April 4 2011, 11:29AM
King lent his celebrity to the black men who labored in Memphis’ refuge because they symbolized a global economy built upon exploiting black and brown people.
Topics: Economy, History, Jobs Crisis, Kai Wright
Alabama House Approves Apology for Recy Taylor
by Benjamin Greenberg on March 30 2011, 12:57PM
Taylor’s 1944 rape stands as an iconic example of the impunity with which white men attacked black women during the Jim Crow era.
Topics: Gender & Sexuality, History, Recy Taylor
Daughter of Slaves Not Recognized as World’s Oldest Woman
by Thoai Lu on March 29 2011, 11:45AM
Rebecca Lanier is 119 years old but, like most black Americans of her time, was never issued a birth certificate.
Topics: History
Recy Taylor Gets a Personal Sorry, But No Apology From Alabama
by Benjamin Greenberg on March 22 2011, 11:10AM
The 91-year-old’s family still wants a formal apology for the failure to investigate and prosecute her rapists for nearly 70 years.
Topics: Gender & Sexuality, History, Recy Taylor
An (Immortal) Women’s History Month Reading List
by Rinku Sen on March 18 2011, 10:36AM
I love books, and here are three of my favorites for March reading.
Recy Taylor May Finally See Alabama Acknowledge Her 1944 Rape
by Benjamin Greenberg on March 16 2011, 3:00AM
She was one of literally uncounted black women who were assaulted without justice in Jim Crow’s South.
Topics: Gender & Sexuality, History, Recy Taylor
W.E.B. DuBois’s Color Line From 1900, in Visuals
by Hatty Lee on March 11 2011, 10:00AM
Sociology students from Atlanta University created the graphs for Exposition Universelle in Paris.
Topics: History
King’s Fight for Unions Is Still Essential
by Michael Honey on February 23 2011, 9:22AM
MLK died fighting for the very rights that Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and a growing number of his GOP counterparts want to take away.
Topics: Economy, History, Jobs Crisis, Wisconsin
Recy Taylor, Sexual Violence, and the Horrors of Jim Crow
by Jamilah King on February 11 2011, 9:55AM
The stories of countless black women who were raped by white men during the civil rights era have gone overlooked entirely.
Topics: Gender & Sexuality, History, Recy Taylor
Mississippi Group Pushes for KKK Commemorative License Plates
by Jamilah King on February 10 2011, 1:17PM
Because Nathan Bedford Forrest wasn’t just a confederate hero and KKK leader. He was a genius, according to supporters.
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