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:wow: LONG READ BUT WORTH IT :wow: Written by Thom Hartmann / Independent Media Institute September 22, 2020 In the power grab to fill the Supreme Court seat announced the same evening as the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Mitch McConnell didn’t do anything new. The GOP has a long...

Living Through the Death of an Empire? It’s the little things. PATRICK WYMANMARCH 19, 2020 The coronavirus is a rapidly developing news story, so some of the content in this article might be out of date. Check out our most recent coverage of the coronavirus crisis, and subscribe to Mother...

On December 18th, 1944 the U.S. Supreme Court in deciding against Fred Korematsu, upheld the constitutionality of President Roosevelt’s Executive Order 9066, issued on February 19th, 1942. The order designated certain areas as military zones from which those of Japanese ancestry could be...

The man from Jet who battled Jim Crow At the Till murder trial, Simeon Booker (foreground) and fellow black journalists were segregated from the regular reporter pool and forced to work at a small card table in the back of the courtroom Madison Darbyshire DECEMBER 15, 2017 Before Barack...

My mother spent her life passing as white. Discovering her secret changed my view of race — and myself. By Gail Lukasik November 20 at 6:00 AM The author’s mother, Alvera Fredric, was born into a black family in New Orleans but spent her life passing as white. (Family photo) By Gail Lukasik...

"She Speaks for Her Clan" painting by Dorothy Sullivan, Cherokee. Cover image on Cherokee Women: Gender and Culture Change, 1700-1835 (Indians of the Southeast), by Theda Perdue The Power of Cherokee Women By mid-18th century, many Cherokee men and women realized that their survival depended on...

The six photographers in the Black Chicago exhibition cover the period from 1940 to the present. None has followed the same path and none has the same way of looking at things. Each one presents a different image of the African-American community, who came to Chicago from the Deep South with the...

A Border Patrol agent looks at the Rio Grande river with Mexico on the left and the US on the right from a railroad bridge in Laredo, Texas on May 2, 2006. Agents often patrol for migrants trying to illegally enter the country. At another time in history, the US government was trying to keep...

Harry Belafonte (r) with Martin Luther King, Jr. and Coretta Scott King at the March on Montgomery, 1965. Harry Belafonte has been a household name across the United States and around much of the world for seventy years. He’s ninety now—and his legendary resonant voice is a bit harder to...

OG History is a Teen Vogue series where we unearth history not told through a white, cisheteropatriarchal lens. In this explainer, Adam Sanchez explains myths of the Civil War, including the truth about President Abraham Lincoln's motivations for ending the practice of slavery in the United...

Sadly most only know about the Biltmore Estate.

Celia was facing the gallows when she went on trial in 1855 for the murder of the white slave owner who had been raping her. She warned the white slave owner that the rapes had to stop. Celia, 19, had endured five years of assaults by Robert Newsom, the Missouri widower in his 70s who’d...

“Uncivil,” an excellent new podcast about the Civil War hosted by Jack Hitt and Chenjerai Kumanyika, begins with a visit this summer to a controversial statue. It doesn’t involve Robert E. Lee or the Confederate flag, they tell us: it’s the Emancipation Memorial in Washington, D.C., which was...