Every member of every family listed on the National Monument to Freedom knew someone—a parent, a child, a loved one—who lived and died as someone else’s property.
Racism (Us vs Them)
The lies told by Donald Trump have resonated with many Douglas County Georgia voters. Now nonpartisan election officials is forced to face their ire.
Throughout history, marginalized groups fighting for justice have not been asking to be made invisible or tolerated in anonymity by those with power or advantage, but to be fully seen and fully acknowledged without censoring.
Citizens for Sanity was one of top political spenders last election cycle and is back for 2024 with more extreme messaging.
Much like Maddox did nearly 60 years ago, Trump is using fear of other racial groups to gain support among white voters.
Mike Collins is no stranger to accusations of racism. Earlier this year, he suggested murdering migrants by throwing them from helicopters into the sea, in the manner of U.S.-backed South American dictators in the 1970s.
A trial in Tallahassee has opened challenging a 2023 Florida law designed to make registration of voters by third party groups more difficult if not impossible.
Republican are campaigning on their racism. After all, what is the opposite of diversity, equity, and inclusion? Whites-only communities, whites-only jobs, and racial segregation.
Only in Florida. DeSantis eliminated a Black voting district and then insisted that district amounted to a “racial gerrymander” forbidden by the Fourteenth Amendment’s Equal Protection clause.
When slavery ended, the government opposed any aid or compensation for Black people. They had spent 250 years of working for free, starving, with no education and no money.
The KKK is most infamous for violently terrorizing African Americans. But in the 1920s its hatred also had other targets, especially outside the South.
Republicans seek to "protect" students from historical facts like the 1619 landing of the White Lion in Virginia and the bartering of 20 stolen Africans for supplies, thus completing the first sale of human slaves in America.
The U.S. is experiencing a crisis of white folks who are fearful of democracy because they’re fearful of people of color. When given a choice between whiteness and democracy, far too many still choose whiteness.
In a tortured shredding of logic, attorneys for Ron DeSantis are trying to defend his gerrymandered destruction of a black majority district by comparing the restoration of it to apartheid.
The simple fact is that, were it not for slavery, white supremacy, and the legacy of “scientific racism,” America would have had a national, single-payer healthcare system in 1915.
Not all Nazis wear swastikas: Emboldened by former President Donald Trump, white nationalists walk among us, and not all of them will be as clumsy as Franklin Alderman Gabrielle Hanson in revealing their politics.