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VideoMay 17, 1954: Supreme Court Rules Racial Segregation in Schools Unconstitutional
by Jorge Rivas on May 17 2013, 5:11PM
On May 17, 1954, the United State Supreme Court decided a case that changed the course of American history.
Topics: /NOW Blog, Schools & Youth
What Is Alabama’s Problem With the Voting Rights Act?
by Brentin Mock on February 26 2013, 8:46AM
The Supreme Court will hear arguments this week in a case that could deeply gut the historic law. To understand where this is going, it’s crucial to know how we got here.
Topics: Voting Rights 2012, History, Politics, Voting Rights Act
The Unique Importance of This Year’s International Women’s Day
by Hatty Lee on March 8 2012, 9:06AM
While Washington squabbles over the right to control female bodies, women around the globe have long been fighting back, speaking up, and creating change.
Topics: Gender & Sexuality
Public viewing for Etta James in Los Angeles
by Jorge Rivas on January 24 2012, 3:37PM
A public viewing for the late Etta James will be held at Inglewood Cemetery Mortuary on Friday
Topics: Arts & Culture, /NOW Blog
A Political Obituary of Etta James
by Kenyon Farrow on January 24 2012, 9:09AM
James’s personal and artistic journey has a lot to teach us about the shifting politics of race, class and feminist politics over the course of the last half century. Kenyon Farrow explores the late icon’s history.
Topics: Arts & Culture, Etta James, History
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
Mapping America’s Brutal Past, and Humanity’s Capacity for Revolt
by Imara Jones on January 19 2011, 10:12AM
An 1860 census of the American South reveals much more than the region’s demography.
Topics: History
Remembering MLK: The Things We’ve Forgotten Would Guide Us
by Barbara Ransby on January 14 2011, 9:51AM
Civil rights historian Barbara Ransby says we are all King’s political heirs.
Rachel Maddow Breaks Down How the Racist Political Past is Present
by Julianne Hing on October 20 2010, 4:00PM
We’re still living out the Southern Strategy Republicans dreamed up in the 1960s.
Topics: 2010 Elections, History
Isabel Wilkerson Talks About Generations of Black Immigrants
by Greg Varner on October 1 2010, 10:00AM
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author discusses her definitive new study of the Great Migration with ColorLines.
Topics: Arts & Culture, History
Charges That a Civil Rights Hero Was an FBI Spy Shouldn’t Shock Us
by Barbara Ransby on September 15 2010, 10:46AM
Government snoops were always close confidants.
Topics: History, National Security
Fall Reading List: From Border Kids to the Great Migration
by Greg Varner on September 14 2010, 9:47AM
NPR’s Michele Norris mines her past, a historian brings black migration to life, a kid finds his deported mom, plus Edwidge Danticat, Charlie Chan and more.
Topics: Arts & Culture
King’s Movement Was More Interested in Justice Than Harmony
by Hatty Lee, Kai Wright on August 28 2010, 1:10PM
A look at real message in Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech.
Topics: History, Kai Wright
Glenn Beck’s MLK Dream is Perverse, But What’s Our Vision?
by Kai Wright on August 26 2010, 11:00AM
Beck and the right have been the loudest national voices on race for too long.
Topics: Glenn Beck, History, Kai Wright, Politics
The 90th Anniversary of a Women’s Right to Vote
by Jamilah King, Hatty Lee on August 21 2010, 11:45AM
The movements for women’s rights and racial justice have a long, intertwined history.
Topics: Gender & Sexuality, History
45th Anniversary of Voting Rights Act
by Jamilah King, Hatty Lee on August 7 2010, 3:13PM
A look back at the historic blow for racial justice.
Topics: History
Is Black History Month Necessary? Tammy Johnson on KALW’s Your Call [AUDIO]
by Tammy Johnson on February 8 2010, 6:06AM
I really enjoy the push and pull of a good political conversation, especially ones that apply big questions of policy of philosophy to real life situations. That’s a good thing, since I seem to find myself in the middle of…
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Pioneering Black Cover Girl Naomi Sims Dies
by Jorge Rivas on August 4 2009, 10:22AM
Naomi Sims died of breast cancer on August 1, 2009, aged 61, in Newark, New Jersey. She was born in Oxford, Mississippi, the youngest of three daughters. She was ostracized by her community because of her color and height. But…
Topics: History
by Jorge Rivas on July 17 2009, 10:38AM
Yesterday the University of California Board of Regents voted to grant special honorary degrees to hundreds of men and women forced to leave their studies at the University of California as a result of the internment of people of Japanese…
Topics: History
Racializing Uighurs: The Story of Internal Colonialism in China
by Yvonne Yen Liu on July 9 2009, 6:20PM
China extends 3,400 miles from the west to the east and falls into five different time zones. Yet, the country operates on a single standard of time, eight hours ahead of Greenwich Mean Time, all year round based on…
Topics: History
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