History
The Age of Revolution from Below
A more complete, bottom-up picture of the role sailors and Black political actors played in making the Atlantic world.
Angels of History
In the 1974 cult-classic teleplay Penda’s Fen, the past holds the key to escaping the catastrophic present.
How We Speak About the Failure of the PLO
Accounts still get the history of Palestinian diplomacy wrong.
Petra Kelly and the Radical Green Past
The Greens are on track to become Germany’s second strongest party. Was abandoning radicalism was the right choice?
Who Is Afraid of Race?
There is a cost to replacing race with caste in our analysis of oppression: we erase anti-Blackness.
A People’s Anthology: Episode Three
“The Black Revolution: A Struggle for Political Power” by Jesse Gray.
A People’s Anthology: Episode One
Carole Boyce Davies on Claudia Jones’s “An End of the Neglect of the Problems of the Negro Woman!”
The Millions
A trip to Machu Picchu ends up offering surprising insights into what it means to be a survivor of the genocide of Native Americans.
The Americans Who Embraced Mussolini
As we confront rightwing extremism in our own time, the history of American fascist sympathy reveals a legacy worth reckoning with.
Immigration Enforcement and the Afterlife of the Slave Ship
Coast Guard techniques for blocking Haitian asylum seekers have their roots in the slave trade. Understanding these connections can help us disentangle immigration policy from white nationalism.
Algerian Jews Have Not Forgotten France’s Colonial Crimes
A recent report neglects to mention how France forced Arab Jews to adopt the European persona of Jew as citizen and see Arabs and Muslims as others.
“White Fragility” Gets Jackie Robinson’s Story Wrong
Robin DiAngelo’s best-selling book sells a misguided view of baseball integration to her readers and corporate clients.
Black History in Three Acts
The story of how Black people confront systems of racial capitalism and plot world liberation. A reading list from Robin D. G. Kelley.
DNA and Our Twenty-First-Century Ancestors
Home DNA ancestry kits include no ancestors, instead comparing customers to other present-day people based on assumptions about race and ethnicity. So what are they actually selling?
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