History

Racial justice groups pan attorney general as “racist” and frame his comments within the historical context of law enforcement in Black communities.

In “An African American and Latinx History of the United States,” historian Paul Ortiz illuminates how Black and Brown people built cross-border, multi-ethnic solidarity movements to resist imperialism, achieve civil rights and ultimately shape the course of history. 

A by-the-numbers guide to the ways in which the Trump administration is systematically attacking American immigration. 

Rinku Sen argues that the Congressional budget process is just a tool for the GOP to reach its ultimate goal—a radical reordering of 50 years of immigration policy that is transparent in its hostility toward immigrants of color.

By putting power—literally—in the hands of the people, “energy democracy” could have potentially game-changing benefits for low-income people and communities of color. 

Doug Jones won the special senate election in Alabama because Black folks used our own homegrown tools that we have been building and refining for many years. It’s past time to substantially invest in Black political organizing infrastructure in the South.

Faith leaders around the country are recreating Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s mass mobilization of working-class people.

The Mashpee Wampanoag tribe, whose ancestors dined with Pilgrims at the first Thanksgiving, created a language immersion school to preserve its heritage.

Dread Scott and arts organization Antenna launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund “Slave Rebellion Reenactment,” an epic performance piece that imagines what one of America’s largest uprisings would look like in contemporary Louisiana.