Protest

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• SOURCE: TomDispatch
  9/17/2020
  

  Taking the Next Knee Is this Athletic Revolt For Real and Is It a Danger to Donald Trump?

  by Robert Lipsyte

  Today's protests by pro athletes, with the WNBA leading the way, appear to be advancing beyond past waves of activism in the world of sports. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  9/8/2020
  

  The Forgotten History of the Radical ‘Elders of the Tribe’

  by Susan J. Douglas

  The Gray Panthers fought for the civil rights, social services and respect denied to older Americans. But they did so by challenging inequality in ways that sought alliances instead of antagonism between young and old. 

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• 9/13/2020
  

  Twenty-One Days Later: Ventura County's Participation in the Chicano Moratorium of 1970

  by Frank P. Barajas

  Police responded brutally to the 1970 Chicano Moratorium protest march in East Los Angeles, including killing journalist Ruben Salazar. This news spread to smaller Chicano communities in the state and beyond and sparked a politicial movement for justice that echoes today.

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  9/9/2020
  

  The Players’ Revolt Against Racism, Inequality, and Police Terror

  by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

  The radicalization of young Black professional athletes is a stunning development in this unfolding, raucous movement, one that demonstrates the sheer scale of racial inequality and a deep need to do something about it.

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• SOURCE: Made By History at The Washington Post
  9/4/2020
  

  The Depression-Era Lessons That Can Solve Today’s Evictions Crisis

  by Anya Jabour

  Social workers and researchers Edith Abbott and Sophonisba Breckinridge conducted an important study of evictions in Chicago during the Great Depression and advocated for federal support for a minimum standard of living including housing. The looming eviction crisis demands similar big thinking. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at The Washington Post
  9/8/2020
  

  Covid-19 Has Exposed The Consequences Of Decades Of Bad Public Housing Policy

  by Gillet Gardner Rosenblith

  Poor and economically precarious Americans are at risk of eviction in the COVID-19 crisis because American policymakers have spent decades rejecting a public role in providing decent housing outside of the market system. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  9/9/2020
  

  Our Summer of White Male Supremacy

  by Ibram X. Kendi

  "Adherents of Trumpism think they are facing a choice between white male supremacy and 'anarchy'."

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• SOURCE: Mississippi Free Press
  9/3/2020
  

  Good Trouble’ In A White Flight Suburb: Oak Grove High Teens Confront Racism

  by Ashton Pittman

  Black Lives Matter protests organized by high school students near Hattiesburg, Mississippi are responding to inequities created by the growth of white flight suburbs after "Brown v. Board of Education," when manipulated city and school district boundaries and private "segregation academies" helped whites to hoard resources and educational opportunity.

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• SOURCE: NPR
  8/28/2020
  

  Protests, Yesterday and Today

  Historian Lorena Oropeza discusses the Chicano Moratorium protests against the war in Vietnam and the denial of opportunity to ethnic Mexican people in Los Angeles and elsewhere. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  9/1/2020
  

  A Statue of Canada’s First Prime Minister Is Toppled, but Politicians Want It Restored

  Prime Minister Justin Trudeau angered Canadian antiracism activists by condemning vandalism of a statue of the country's first Prime Minister. He angered other Canadians by not offering a stronger condemnation at a time when public acknowledgment of Candian oppression of indigenous people is becoming a hot issue. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  8/26/2020
  

  The Daily: Trump's Suburban Strategy (audio)

  Trump has used recent protests to double down on a suburban strategy based in fear of crime and disorder. Writer Emily Badger investigates whether it will work. 

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• SOURCE: Vanity Fair
  8/26/2020
  

  More National Guard Troops Could Be On Their Way To Kenosha

  University of Connecticut sociologist Noël Cazenave says there is a historical relationship between white vigilante movements and perceptions of increased political power by Black people. 

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• SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
  8/28/2020
  

  #ScholarStrike

  Professors are planning a work stoppage and virtual, public teach-in on police violence and racism next month.

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• SOURCE: CNN
  8/25/2020
  

  There's a Movement to Get More Schools to Teach Black History and it's Being Led by Teens

  Young activists and their faculty supporters see an urgent need for education reform.

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• SOURCE: Daily Kos
  8/27/2020
  

  Overt Racism in the Street and Quieter Racism in the Curriculum

  by Alan J. Singer

  I don’t want to drop James Hammond’s speech to the United States Senate proclaiming “Cotton is King” from United States history textbooks and websites. But when the speech is cited, it should include an explanation who this man was, what he believed, and what he did.

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• SOURCE: Reuters
  8/21/2020
  

  U.S. Schools Revamp Curricula In Response To Black Lives Matter

  Some of the changes don’t necessarily involve new material, but rather teaching the same material from a new perspective.

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• SOURCE: JSTOR Daily
  8/19/2020
  

  Plague and Protest Go Hand in Hand

  Scholars like Philip Ziegler and Mark Senn have argued that the Black Death of 1348 laid the groundwork for the Peasants’ Revolt of 1381, the first large-scale popular revolt in England.

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• SOURCE: The Intercept
  8/24/2020
  

  Tilting At Windmills: The FBI Chased Imagined Eco-Activist Enemies, Documents Reveal

  At the wind energy industry’s behest, the FBI and DHS gamed out attacks on facilities that they acknowledged face no threat.

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• SOURCE: WKOW
  8/24/2020
  

  Experts Dive into How Protest Action Brings Attention to Causes, Issues

  "That 'I'm not alone' feeling is one of the biggest things that people get out of being in a protest," said historian Jonathan Pollack.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  8/17/2020
  

  The March Carries On

  Holding a mass march for civil rights and social justice at a time of political division is risky. That's what they said in 1963. For leaders hoping to renew a call to national action, COVID and the election raise the stakes even higher.