I know it is not shocking that a bunch of white billionaire Republicans who own NFL teams are racist as fuck, but my god are they racist as fuck. With very few exceptions, they just can't get over the idea of a Black man as...
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On February 6, 1886, white Knights of Labor members in Seattle started anti-Chinese riots, part of the larger racist white working class of the west coast seeking to eliminate Chinese.
Memphis Race Riot, 1866
The Texas Rangers were a racist force of cops who engaged in mass murders of Mexicans that were and still are celebrated by the people of Texas. But there's at least a few Texans who are clamoring to fight that mythology and push back. There's...
Whites in Chicago protesting against the Martin Luther King led campaign to desegregate housing, 1966.
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,.
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 there in the Black community) and a condemnation of the continuance of...
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.
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.
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." Since 2015, Denmark has implemented increasingly hostile policies towards refugees and immigrants—with the notable...
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.
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.