Black sharecroppers organizing a union were slaughtered en masse 103 years ago this week in the Elaine Massacre. It was one of the US’s worst episodes of racist violence — and a reminder that Jim Crow was about keeping the masses divided and labor brutalized.
Source: The 1919 Elaine Massacre Was a Violent Response to Black Sharecropper Organizing
Book bans across the nation. Christian fundamentalism ascending. White supremacy running rampant. These are symptoms of a rising fascist politics in
Source: Christian White Supremacy Rising: The Fascist Connection – CounterPunch.org
By Beverly Lemire, University of Alberta | – (The Conversation)- Fashion is political — today as in the past. As …
Source: How Whiteness was Invented and Fashioned in Britain’s Colonial Age of Expansion
As online trolls continue to lose their shit over the fictional existence of nonwhite elves in Rings of Power, the show’s cast has released a statement condemning the harassment its cast members of color have faced.
Today is the 59th anniversary of the March on Washington, so get ready for plenty of whitewashed history. Here’s the truth: the Civil Rights Movement was a radical struggle against Jim Crow tyranny whose early foot soldiers were Communists and labor militants.
The history of race has animated a highly contentious, sometimes fractious debate among scholars.
Source: When Did Racism Begin?
This inner transformation is never allowed to happen in some of our schools today, where teaching the history of the Black race in America is decried by White supremacists and those politicians who share their views.
1848+: The End(s) of History 