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HistoryJune 28, 2021
Annette Gordon-Reed’s Personal History of Juneteenth
In her new book, Gordon-Reed reminds us that besides offering us origin stories the past can also provides us with a way to think about the present and future.
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CitiesMay 17, 2021
The City That Embodies the United States’ Contradictions
In the history of St. Louis, we find both a radical and reactionary past—and a more hopeful future too.
Robert Greene II
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FilmFebruary 16, 2021
The Long History of the FBI’s Surveillance of Martin Luther King
A new documentary details the bureau’s response to King and how the harassment of left-wing radicals and activists of color was integral to its mission in the 20th century.
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BiographyAugust 10, 2020
Julian Bond’s Life in Protest and Politics
A new collection of essays demonstrates how the civil rights icon’s thinking evolved amid the upheavals of the 20th century.
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HistoryJune 1, 2020
The Lost History of Southern Communism
Mary Stanton’s Red, Black, White offers a close examination of the triumphs and travails of Alabama’s local Communist Party chapter.
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HistoryOctober 24, 2019
Clarence Thomas’s Political Journey
Corey Robin discusses his new book on the longest-serving justice on today’s Supreme Court and the influence of black conservatism and black nationalism on his jurisprudence.
Robert Greene II
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August 13, 2019
Henry Louis Gates Jr. and the Long Arc of Reconstruction
In his new book, Gates argues that the history of American democracy has always been one of constant push and pull.
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August 7, 2019
Toni Morrison and ‘the Human Project’
Through her novels and essays, Morrison helped inspire a generation of writers to reckon with American history.
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Race and EthnicityJuly 16, 2019
Why ‘The Chicago Defender’ Still Matters
The history of the paper is a mirror of the larger history of the African American freedom struggle—both of what it already has achieved and what work still needs to be done.
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May 20, 2019
Martin Luther King Jr.’s Social Democracy
In her new book, King and the Other America, historian Sylvie Laurent situates the Poor People’s Campaign and Martin Luther King Jr.’s later years in a longer history of black activism and social-democratic thinking.
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