Whites in Chicago protesting against the Martin Luther King led campaign to desegregate housing, 1966.
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How have our history textbooks helped create and maintain white supremacy? One morning as I examined a library cart bursting with about 50 elementary, grammar, and high school history textbooks, a bri
Nate Connolly is one of our finest historians. His book, A World More Concrete, is a fantastic investigation of the history of housing segregation in Miami (fun fact: W.E.B. DuBois was a slumlord ther
On August 6, 1944, Philadelphia’s transit strike over hiring black drivers ends. This strike, done shortly after D-Day and when the nation was moving toward winning the war, demonstrates the intensely felt white supremacy of the white working class and the difficulties of interracial organizing in American history. Once again, white Americans placed their white […]
For the latest LGM podcast, I had the honor of speaking to Karma Chávez, department chair of the Department of Mexican American and Latino/a Studies at the University of Texas-Austin and long time al
Denmark is a real country. In comparison even to most other European states, it is a robust social democracy – albeit one with features that the American left would consider “neoliberal.”
As always, the Catholic Church is really demonstrating the spirit of Christ: The students at a predominantly Black Catholic middle school in Worcester, Mass., had resoundingly expressed their wishes in January 2021: They wanted Black Lives Matter and Pride flags flown over their place of learning to signal inclusivity. More than a year later, however, […]
When I see a white cop, I just assume the person is racist. I see no reason why not to because while I am sure there are exceptions, the evidence is overwhelming. In a series of text messages, a white
Time for the Roberts court to step in and stop this anti-white racism! The picturesque jury chamber in the Giles County courthouse in Tennessee featured a giant window with a soaring library, but it h
On 17 October 1961, a peaceful protest by Algerian migrants in the Paris region was met with overwhelming police force.
Well this seems bad: In the assistant principal’s office at Hobgood, the officer telling Garrett not to get the kids was Chris Williams. Williams, who is Black, had been a Murfreesboro cop for five
Very interesting piece on how the story we tell about redlining and postwar housing loans is a bit more complicated than previously discussed. But new research shows that the maps very probably did no