Tag: Segregation
How baseball’s first commissioner led a conspiracy of silence to preserve...
Chris Lamb, IUPUI
The Baseball Writers’ Association of America recently announced that it would remove former Major League Baseball Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis’ name from...
Latest legal hurdle to removing Confederate statues in Virginia: The wishes...
Allison Anna Tait, University of Richmond
A controversial statue of Robert E. Lee will remain in place in Richmond, the former capital of the American...
What Canada and South Africa can teach the U.S. about slavery...
Bonny Ibhawoh, McMaster University
America’s failure to understand, acknowledge and resolve the continuing catastrophe of slavery is holding back the entire nation.
Without broad public recognition...
When America had an open prison – the story of Kenyon...
Emily Nagisa Keehn, Harvard University and Dana Walters, Harvard University
In a country with mass incarceration, horrific prison conditions and a penal system suffused with...
Does most of your paycheck go to rent? That may be...
Jessica Owens-Young, American University
New data on health across the U.S. shows that high housing costs are harming Americans’ health – and that some communities...
Super Bowl LIII and the soul of Atlanta
Derrick P. Alridge, University of Virginia
As a historian who studies W.E.B. Du Bois – and as someone who once lived in nearby Athens, Georgia...
Meet the theologian who helped MLK see the value of nonviolence
Paul Harvey, University of Colorado
After this last tumultuous year of political rancor and racial animus, many people could well be asking what can sustain...
Before Breitbart, there was the Charleston News and Courier
Sid Bedingfield, University of Minnesota
Conservatives who dislike Donald Trump like to blame the president and his Breitbart cheering section for the racial demagoguery they...
EXPLORING NATURE
‘Big Beautiful Bill’ will have Americans paying higher prices for dirtier energy
Daniel Cohan, Rice University
When congressional Republicans decided to cut some Biden-era energy subsidies to help fund their One...
