I recently read Charles Blow's new book, where he urges Black northerners to move back South to concentrate their political power. It's a super book and LGM readers should check it out. One of the points Blow makes, as many others have for a long...
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This is just sad given the history of baseball among Black Americans. Looking around Memorial Stadium before Game 1 of the 1983 World Series, Philadelphia Phillies star Gary Matthews saw.
FILE--Alabama Gov. George C. Wallace is shown in this Oct. 19, 1964 file photo speaking in Glen Burnie, Md. at a rally supporting then Republican presidential candidate Sen. Barry Goldwater..
Has anything changed in the last half-century in the reality of American segregation. Not really. It's just de facto instead of de jure. After all, Connor and Maddie really do deserve the best schools.... Aziz Rana has a good long essay at Dissent on the...
History is a battle between sides wanting to tell different stories. Some of those sides stand for justice. Others stand for repression. At Montpelier, James Madison's home in Virginia, those.
I never expect anything from the cops, but this is hardly different these days then, say, attempting to write a history book that people will read about slavery and having.
There is a very long history of whites passing as non-whites when it works for them. Rachel Dolezal is perhaps the most infamous example of this in recent years but there are many others. One question worth asking is how much of the rapid rise...
NASHVILLE, : US President Bill Clinton clinches his fist during a 27 October speech on welfare reform at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee. The US general election is.
The backlash politics that have dominated the nation since 1968 and have only gotten worse since 2008 constantly force Democrats to try to appease whites. But given that both working.
Is this a Cleetus safari? It might be. But we do have to figure out what on earth is going on in south Texas, with its amazing and horrifying transformation from being a Hillary stronghold in 2016 to a purple area in 2020, with majority-Mexican-American...
Mrs. Nettie Hunt, sitting on steps of Supreme Court, holding newspaper, explaining to her daughter Nikie the meaning of the Supreme Court's decision banning school segregation. Courtesy of Library of.
It's not just you who is independently deciding to put Maddie and Connor in segregated schools, though indeed you are largely doing that. The federal government is incentivizing you to.