Margaret Sanger is truly one of the great Americans, but one with just one tiny problem……..her embrace of eugenics. This like dealing with Lyndon Johnson, who looks great until you remembe
While Brown v. Board of Education gets the most attention for obvious reasons, it wasn’t until the 1971 decision in Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education that the Court really did an
I’ve highlighted this issue before, but one of the most complex racial issues the nation has is the Oklahoma tribes that adopted chattel slavery trying to deny tribal status (with the resource d
I highlighted Frank McGee in the grave series yesterday. In it, I mentioned his Vietnam War reporting Same Mud Same Blood, about race relations in the Army in Vietnam. So I decided to watch it. On the
With house prices skyrocketing, the need for affordable housing is greater than ever. The Biden administration is aware of these issues and making early steps toward moving in the right direction. But
I am going to leave behind my usual critique that so much political science is writing in opaque language and using pointless modeling to “discover” things that historians have already exp
I know that the media loves finding white people in Youngstown and Canton to talk to about their personal lord and savior Donald Trump and repeat the economic anxiety arguments that elite pundits love
As the blogosphere’s preeminent grave expert (what a position to hold in society), I’ve talked before about the neglect of Black cemeteries and how racism follows us beyond the grave. This