The president of Emory University evidently lacks people to make sure he doesn't say insane, horrible things. During a Homecoming program in September, a panel of eminent law school alumni discussed the challenges of governing in a time of political polarization—a time, in other words,...
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On February 8, 1887, President Grover Cleveland signed the Dawes Severalty Act into law. The Dawes Act created a process to split up Indian reservations in order to create individual.
Robert Stacy McCain, the man who defended the lynching of Emmett Till, has some really good advice for the Republican Party. Double down on white supremacy and reject those anti-capitalist.
On January 25, 1941, A. Philip Randolph, head of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters and the most important civil rights leader of the World War II era, called for a March on Washington to protest discrimination in defense industry work. The success of this...
Barack Obama's second inaugural address: "We, the people, declare today that the most evident of truths – that all of us are created equal – is the star that guides.
This is a fascinating piece on Ken Gonzales-Day, the artist and author who explores the history of lynching in the American West. We usually think of lynching as something that.
On all fronts, the Republicans are making remarkable progress in building a coalition that will appeal to people who aren't old and white. 1. John Sununu dismissing Obama's victory as a group of people dependent on the government. 2. A Subway owned by Republican Congressman...
If John O'Sullivan and Jonah Goldberg have anything to say about it, Republicans are certainly about the turn the corner in attracting non-whites: “I see that the way we will.
One of my favorite things about American racism is that the nation's commitment to white supremacy has both encouraged imperialist wars of conquest and then horrifying the racial sensitivities of.
I found this Douglas Blackmon piece at the Post interesting for a couple of reasons. Exploring changing demographics in the South, he notes that Republicans have far from safe majorities along the entire Atlantic coast. Growing Latino and black populations in Virginia and North Carolina...
On November 22, 1887, a group of white vigilantes crushed a Knights of Labor led strike of black sugar workers in the fields around Thibodaux, Louisiana. Fighting back against largest.
Charlie Webster, Chair of the Maine Republican Party: In some parts of rural Maine, there were dozens, dozens of black people who came in and voted on Election Day. Everybody.