Segregation

Reggie Jackson playing baseball

Reggie Jackson Speaks the Ugly Truth About Baseball’s Past Reggie Jackson Speaks the Ugly Truth About Baseball’s Past

The baseball legend tells the Fox Sports audience what it was like playing baseball in the 1960s in the South.

Jun 24, 2024 / Dave Zirin

Trey Lamar speaks at a hearing

Apartheid American-Style Apartheid American-Style

The City of Jackson versus the Mississippi State Legislature.

Feb 16, 2023 / Makani Themba

Participants in a “Freedom Friday March” in Washington, DC.

The Party of Lincoln Is Now the Party of Jim Crow The Party of Lincoln Is Now the Party of Jim Crow

Not a single House Republican voted for the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act.

Aug 26, 2021 / John Nichols

Grinning John Roberts

Yesterday’s Union-Busting Supreme Court Decision Was a Segregationist Throwback Yesterday’s Union-Busting Supreme Court Decision Was a Segregationist Throwback

The court’s decision in Cedar Point Nursery v. Hassid will reverberate throughout the labor movement and far beyond.

Jun 24, 2021 / Elie Mystal for The Nation

Joe Manchin committee hearing

Joe Manchin Cares More About ‘Bipartisanship’ Than Fighting Jim Crow Joe Manchin Cares More About ‘Bipartisanship’ Than Fighting Jim Crow

The senator says he won’t back a crucial voting rights bill because it’s too “partisan.” What he means is that white conservatives don’t like it.

Jun 8, 2021 / Elie Mystal

Jumaane Williams stands on the left while an unnamed protester stands on the right, holding a sign that reads

Will Deeper Segregation Be Bill de Blasio’s Legacy? Will Deeper Segregation Be Bill de Blasio’s Legacy?

New York’s “progressive” mayor is backing wealthy Manhattanites who want to show the homeless the door.

Oct 9, 2020 / Corinne Low and Shams DaBaron

Donald Trump and Mitch McConnell

The Reasons Republicans Are Still Backing Trump The Reasons Republicans Are Still Backing Trump

The party Trump has inherited is hell-bent on continuing America’s long tradition of racism and imperialism.

Dec 6, 2019 / Rebecca Gordon

Our Town Is Broke. Should We Accept Investment From a Homophobe and a Tea Partier?

Our Town Is Broke. Should We Accept Investment From a Homophobe and a Tea Partier? Our Town Is Broke. Should We Accept Investment From a Homophobe and a Tea Partier?

Another reader asks what they should do if a school integration plan causes “logistical mayhem” for their family.

Oct 25, 2019 / Liza Featherstone

Northern Ireland’s Schools Still Aren’t Integrated

Northern Ireland’s Schools Still Aren’t Integrated Northern Ireland’s Schools Still Aren’t Integrated

But the province’s parents and teachers aren’t waiting for politicians to desegregate education. They’re doing it themselves.

Sep 9, 2019 / Feature / Adam McGibbon

Baltimore Houses

Who Broke Baltimore? We Did. Who Broke Baltimore? We Did.

Baltimore’s decline isn’t an accident. It took decades of government intervention and hundreds of millions of dollars.

Aug 8, 2019 / Emily Lieb

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