Protest

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  7/6/2020
  

  Frederick Douglass Statue Torn Down in Rochester, N.Y., on Anniversary of His Famous Fourth of July Speech

  In 1852, Douglass asked the city’s residents and the country: ‘What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July?’

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• SOURCE: The New York Times
  7/4/2020
  

  The Anthem Debate Is Back. But Now It’s Standing That’s Polarizing.

  “You cannot sit around now in this post-George Floyd period we’re in and say, ‘We’re going to continue to take this safe position,’” says historian Charles Ross.

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• 7/3/2020
  

  While Monuments are Being Removed, a Historian Asks Questions

  by Andrew Joseph Pegoda

  People have a right to walk around their neighborhood park without being terrorized by iconography devoted to people who denied their ancestors human rights.

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• 7/3/2020
  

  Will Capitalist Consumer Culture Absorb Another Generation of Protest?

  by Walter G. Moss

  Do recent protests against the symbols of racism--monuments and statues--reflect a political movement that can easily be absorbed by today's multicultural corporations, or will that energy sustain a push to fundamentally reform American capitalism too? 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  7/1/2020
  

  The Day the White Working Class Turned Republican (Review)

  Clyde Haberman reviews David Paul Kuhn's "The Hardhat Riot" which proves heated social divisions--stoked and exploited by politicians--are nothing new. 

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• SOURCE: TIME
  6/30/2020
  

  Why We Owe Gay Marriage to an Early Trans Activist

  by Eric Cervini

  Why isn't Sylvia Rivera a household name?

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• SOURCE: NPR
  6/26/2020
  

  We Insist: A Century Of Black Music Against State Violence

  Like music itself, this spirit of resistance takes many shapes, but has never been silenced.

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• SOURCE: The Intercept
  6/27/2020
  

  Scholar Robin D.G. Kelley on how Today’s Abolitionist Movement can Fundamentally Change the Country

  "Part of defunding the police is a recognition that the police, as constituted, make life more dangerous for vulnerable populations even as it creates a sense of false safety for white people."

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  6/29/2020
  

  Reparations Need to be Part of the Conversation about Racial Justice

  by Nichole Nelson

  Understanding how government policy held African Americans back economically — and advantaged whites — long after ending slavery, shows why the reparations discussion is once again growing.

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• SOURCE: The Abusable Past
  6/25/2020
  

  Abolition or Bust: Liberal Police Reform as an Engine of Carceral Violence

  by Charlotte Rosen

  Recent work by scholars including Naomi Murakawa, Jodi Melamed, Elizabeth Hinton, Marisol LeBrón, Simon Balto, Max Felker-Kantor and Alex Vitale show that liberal reforms to policing fail to solve serious problems and reinforce the power and reach of police departments to the detriment of the disadvantaged.

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• SOURCE: Black Perspectives
  6/23/2020
  

  “This Is Chaos:” Order Maintenance and the Fear of Black Anarchy in Atlanta

  by Danielle Wiggins

  Although the city has been called the "Black Mecca" of America, Black political leaders have long tried to suppress protest as part of a strategy to win over the city's business community. Today's protests reflect the limits of that strategy. 

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• SOURCE: Charleston Post and Courier (SC)
  6/25/2020
  

  John C. Calhoun Statue Taken Down from its Perch above Charleston’s Marion Square

  The city's removal of John C. Calhoun's statue was much more difficult than anticipated. May we assume the same of his legacy? 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  6/18/2020
  

  What Kind of Society Values Property Over Black Lives?

  by Robin D.G. Kelley

  "Let me offer a more productive question instead: What is the effect of obsessing over looting?"

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• SOURCE: Rolling Stone
  6/15/2020
  

  The Disgrace of Donald Trump

  by Sean Wilentz

  Trump wants to copy Richard Nixon's "law and order" appeals, but may end up echoing Herber Hoover's violent crushing of the Bonus March movement. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  6/13/2020
  

  The End of Black Politics

  by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

  The 1960s generation of Black protest demanded a stronger presence in local government. The current protest movement recognizes that presence isn't enough; leaders must advance an agenda that serves their least advantaged constituents. 

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  6/15/2020
  

  The History of the “Riot” Report

  by Jill Lepore

  How government commissions became alibis for inaction.

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• SOURCE: Haaretz
  6/16/2020
  

  Why Israelis Backed the Civil Rights Movement but Fear Black Lives Matter

  by Chemi Shalev

  After more than 40 years of right-wing rule, Israelis identify and are identified more with ruling whites than with oppressed Blacks.

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• SOURCE: NBC News
  6/15/2020
  

  Man Arrested After Protester Is Shot During Demonstration Over Conquistador Statue In New Mexico

  In a video of the rally, shots could be heard as protesters tried to remove a statue of conquistador Juan de Oñate.

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• SOURCE: Running Magazine
  6/16/2020
  

  Peter Norman: Unsung Hero of the 1968 Olympic Protest

  The Australian sprinter stood in solidarity with Tommie Smith and John Carlos at the Olympics in Mexico City.

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• SOURCE: History Extra (BBC)
  6/16/2020
  

  American Spotlight: How Today’s Protests Echo Historical Outrage

  In this podcast, Kevin Gaines speaks with History Extra on the history of the civil rights movement, racial tensions in America, and the history behind the police violence of recent weeks.