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History
fromSmithsonian Magazine
2 weeks agoNine Black College Students Were Arrested in 1961 for Reading at a Segregated Public Library. Their Contributions to the Civil Rights Movement Have Long Been Overlooked
The Tougaloo Nine staged a sit-in at a segregated library in 1961, significantly impacting the desegregation movement in Mississippi.
US Elections
fromThe Nation
1 month ago61 Years After Bloody Sunday, We Are Entering a New Era of Voter Suppression
2026 faces voting rights threats through postal service changes and the SAVE America Act, which would require citizenship documents to register, potentially disenfranchising millions of Americans.
US politics
fromEmptywheel
2 months ago"The Answer Is Zero:" When Fragile White Supremacists Discover ... They Aren't
Whiskey Pete Hegseth is an inexperienced, arguably incompetent Defense Secretary, leaving the Pentagon unprepared for major crises like Israel-Iran conflict, China-Taiwan, or civil disorder.
fromJezebel
2 months agoTrump Admin Doesn't Want Us to Call the Klansman Who Murdered Medgar Evers a Racist
On Thursday, Mississippi Today reported that several officials, who requested anonymity out of fear of retribution, said NPS told them to remove visitor brochures from the Medgar & Myrlie Evers Home National Monument and edit out details about Beckwith. Among the details reportedly flagged for removal: that Evers was found lying in a pool of blood after he was shot. The brochures referred to Beckwith as "a member of the racist and segregationist White Citizens' Council."
History
Miscellaneous
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month agoThe US is dragging Europe back to the days of white supremacism. Our leaders are playing along | Shada Islam
Nativist, white-supremacist rhetoric promoting defense of Western-Christian civilization and anti-migrant policies normalizes racism, Islamophobia, and risks violent consequences in Europe and the US.
US politics
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months agoState violence against Black Americans laid the groundwork for fascism | Jason Stanley
Expansion of racially targeted, arbitrary state violence into broader populations exemplifies an imperial boomerang, where colonial tactics return domestically and risk fascist normalization.
US politics
fromThe Nation
1 month agoClarence Thomas Just Struck Another Blow to Black Power
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas ruled in USPS v. Konan to shield the post office from liability under the Federal Tort Claims Act, blocking a Black woman's discrimination lawsuit over mail delivery disruption.
History
fromwww.mercurynews.com
2 months agoToday in History: February 5, White separatist convicted of murdering civil rights leader 31 years later
Feb. 5 marks historical events: a civil-rights murder conviction, immigration restriction, WWI and WWII losses, Apollo 14 moonwalk, FMLA signing, tornado outbreak, Super Bowl comeback.
fromThe American Conservative
2 months agoRelive The Civil Rights Era. Send in The Troops
In any liberal morality play, Democrats always get to be the shivering, oppressed black people, while Republicans have to play the part of Bull Connor, Birmingham, AL's racist commissioner of public safety. Except the facts are exactly the opposite. I'm sure you're bored of hearing this, but Connor was a Democrat, as were all the politicians promising "massive resistance" to racial integration. Republicans were the ones forcing Democrats to abide by federal law, along with a few John Fetterman- style Democrats.
Right-wing politics
Right-wing politics
fromLGBTQ Nation
2 months agoAnti-LGBTQ+ bigots turn on each other after video shows their neo-Nazi partytime - LGBTQ Nation
Andrew and Tristan Tate condemned antisemitism after videos showed them partying with white supremacist Nick Fuentes while Nazi salutes and a pro-Hitler song played.
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months agoTrump's racist post about the Obamas was a wake-up call for some. Why did it take so long? | Jamil Smith
John from New Mexico, a self-professed lifelong Republican, called into C-Span's Washington Journal earlier this month with penitence on his mind. I voted for the president and supported him, he began. But I really want to apologize. The caller said he had been staring at an image Americans have seen far too often in recent days: Barack and Michelle Obama, the former president and first lady, with their mouths stretched into grotesque grins and their faces affixed to the bodies of apes.
US politics
fromInside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs
2 months agoWe Must Teach Young Americans That Associating Black People With Apes Is Racist
U.S. president Donald Trump shared a racist video on his Truth Social account in which former American president and first lady Barack and Michelle Obama were depicted as apes. I was unsurprised, yet nonetheless disgusted. U.S. senator Jon Ossoff also found the video unacceptable. He said during a rally in Atlanta that Donald Trump was "posting about the Obamas like a Klansman."
US politics
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