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Why Trump Won’t Win. By Hussein Ibish / The Atlantic
‘This film is needed now more than ever’: exploring the roots of US racism. By David Smith / The Guardian ( Image by HITC)
The 2024 election one year out: Don’t wait to panic about the polls. By Chauncey Devega / Salon
How the 1876 presidential election enabled Jim Crow. By Tom Hanks and Jeffery Robinson / Wash Post
Book banning in the US: The authors of color censors are trying to silence. By Eliott C. McLauglin / CNN
“Thomasine & Bushrod” Is a Blaxploitation Western That You Need to Stream. By Richard Brody / The New Yorker
Putin and Trump have convinced me: I was wrong about the 21st century. By Robert Reich / The Guardian
A New Origin Story: The 1619 Project. By Nikole Hannah Jones / NYT Magazine
Republican authoritarianism is here to stay. By Brian Klaas / Wash Post
American Psychological Association Apologizes For Contributing To Systemic Racism. By Nicole Chavez / CNN
Bob Moses and the Fighting Spirit of Black Intellectual History. By Robert Greene II / AAIHS
‘Nobody Wants White Kids to Feel Bad About Their Race.’ By Conor Friedersdorf / The Atlantic
‘Well, What Do You Mean, We Can’t Join the Klan?’ By Les Payne and Tamara Payne / Politico
American History Is Getting Whitewashed, Again. By Kali Holloway / The Nation
Removing monuments is the easy part. We must make America a real democracy. By Rev William Barber and Rev Bernice King / The Guardian
The Essential and Enduring Strength of John Lewis. By Jelani Cobb / The New Yorker
Europe in 1989, When the Berlin Wall Fell, America in 2020, and the Death of the Lost Cause. By David W. Blight / The New Yorker
The History That James Baldwin Wanted America to See. By Eddie S. Glaude, Jr. / The New Yorker
Harvard Researchers Find ‘Inequality On Top Of Inequality’ In COVID-19 Deaths. By James Doubek / NPR
We Must Help One Another or Die. Let this crisis motivate us to see through the fog of fake individualism. By Jan-Werner Muller / NYT
Big-time colleges care more about money and winning than black athletes getting degrees. By Derick Z. Jackson / The Undefeated
“If You’re in the Song, Keep on Playing”: An Interview With The Legendary Saxophonist Pharoah Sanders. By Nathaniel Friedman / The New Yorker
Will Republicans be able to wipe Trump’s crimes from the history books? By Amanda Marcotte / Salon
The Fight to Desegregate New York Schools. By Sweta Vohra / NYT
Take a Break From Impeachment. Watch Lil’ Kim’s Career-Spanning Performance at BET Hip Hop Awards. By Emily Zemler / Rolling Stone
The 1619 Project – American slavery began 400 years ago this month. This is referred to as the country’s original sin, but it is more than that: It is the country’s true origin. / NYT
