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While I am usually in favor of keeping statues and other public monuments to horrible racists up and then interpreting them, naming major buildings or public works projects is a whole other thing. That's certainly true of Selma's Edward Pettus Bridge. I didn't know who...

Birth of a Nation

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On February 18, 2015
100 years ago today, D.W. Griffith showed his racist epic film "Birth of a Nation" at a private White House screening for President Woodrow Wilson. Wilson called it "history written with lightning," and said lightning strike sparked the revival of the Ku Klux Klan, which...

Remembering Lynching

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On February 10, 2015

The Equal Justice Initiative has researched a new history of lynching, documenting nearly 4000 lynchings in the South, including attempts to find the precise locations where they took place. The.

On Racist Monuments

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On February 6, 2015
The question with what to do with racist monuments is a difficult one. I can certainly understand the desire to change or erase them. If I am a member of a traditionally oppressed group and I saw words like "colored" or "savage" every time I...

In Sight

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On December 4, 2014

A central argument of Out of Sight is that when people see horrible things, they are outraged, and thus corporations do everything possible to separate consumers from production so that.

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