By chronicling the shame of lynching in the South, Ida B. Wells exposed the corruption of white supremacy.
Race & Ethnicity
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The CBC Challenge in Detroit
The Congressional Black Caucus has to decide between incumbency and additional representation in a House race between Rep. Shri Thanedar and Donavan McKinney.
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Frederick Douglass: Indefatigable American
If Frederick Douglass, a former slave who saw the dream of emancipation drown in Jim Crow, didn’t give up on this country, then we have no excuse.
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Zohran Mamdani’s New Kids on the Block
The politics of urban racial, class, and regime succession.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Will Trump Accounts Close the Racial Wealth Gap, or Worsen It?
The investment accounts for newborns have been lauded as an innovative wealth-building program. But they might exacerbate economic inequalities instead of remedying them.
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Proportional Representation Gets a New Look
Supreme Court decisions and unrestrained partisan gerrymandering are focusing attention on a fundamental election reform. But one version is more feasible than the others.
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As the CBC Condemns Will Lawrence, Local Black Leaders Back Him Up
On a podcast, Lawrence said Black establishment leaders’ support for the status quo ‘is a big problem.’ Black voters and leaders in Michigan agreed with him.
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What Broke Monticello
How a right-wing smear campaign tried to silence the reality of Thomas Jefferson’s life, and in some ways succeeded.
Posted inTAP
The Court Equivocates on Whom to Deport
Birthright citizenship appears to be OK, but refugees from ‘shithole countries’ gotta go.
Posted inLaw and Justice
The Rogue Supreme Court Blesses Ethnic Cleansing
The national council of law wizards held that Donald Trump can deport nonwhite refugees on baldly racist grounds even if he doesn’t follow the law in doing so.