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Texas Librarians Face Harassment as they Navigate Book Bans

While some librarians in the state have been fired for refusing to comply with bans, many others have or are contemplating quitting over political interference with their work and social media harassment. 

Inside the Reversal of the Montpelier Board

The board approved the appointment of 11 members nominated by the Montpelier Descendants Committee, and the resignation of the board chair who led the resistance to the appointments is pending. 

Buffalo Shooting Draws Attention to "Ecofascism"

The ideology links far-right authoritarianism with environmental concerns through the idea that an excess population of nonwhite and non-western people are responsible for overconsumption and waste. 

Report Shows Church-State Collusion on US Native Residential Schools

The Interior Department report, quoting a 1969 Senate investigation, acknowledges that “federal policy toward the Indian was based on the desire to dispossess him of his land. Education policy was a function of our land policy.”

Washington History Seminar: New Scholarship on the Wars in Vietnam-May 23

The Washington History Seminar discusses Christopher Goscha's history of the Vietnamese war for liberation against French colonialism. 

African American Policy Forum Statement on Buffalo Massacre

"Racial terrorism would die out with the generations weaned on it—or so the more hopeful among us believed."

"Great Replacement" Shows how Many Americans Have Embraced Whites-Only Democracy

by Adam Serwer

Whether they blame a secret cabal of elites or the Democratic Party, proponents of "replacement" rhetoric share a belief that legitimate citizenship is racially exclusive and that legitimate elections require white voters to get what they want, echoing anti-immigrant and eugenics rhetoric of the early 20th century.

Margaret Atwood: I Created Gilead, but the Supreme Court Might Make it Real

"Women were nonpersons in U.S. law for a lot longer than they have been persons. If we start overthrowing settled law using Justice Samuel Alito’s justifications, why not repeal votes for women?"

"Great Replacement" Rhetoric has not Historically Been Out of Place in the Halls of Power

Mississippi Senator Theodore Bilbo published a book in 1947 declaring that the failure to ensure racial segregation and Anglo-Saxon supremacy would lead to the destruction of American civilization. 

Montpelier Board Appoints 11 Members from Descendants Committee

The move may finally deliver on the board's promise to grant parity in the governance of the James Madison estate to the descendants of persons enslaved at Montpelier. 

Zemmour Acquitted of Holocaust Denial after Crediting Nazi Collaborator with Saving Jews

While there is substantial disagreement on whether Vichy leader Philippe Pétain's decision to turn over foreign-born Jews to the Nazis was motivated by a desire to save French Jews, a court ruled that the right-wing provocateur did not engage in Holocaust denial by endorsing that view. 

Dig Into the History of Baseball's Negro Leagues with a Quiz from the Library of Congress

by Mike Queen

Now that Major League Baseball is recognizing stats from Negro League competition as Major League achievements, it's time to learn about the top players and history of the league.

How the Government Aided and Abetted the Theft of Black-Owned Farmland

A group of scholars estimates more than 300 billion dollars in lost land wealth by Black farm families over the course of the 20th century, with less tangible but still significant losses in economic security and political influence. 

A Neighborly Civil War in Virginia over Street Names

Leaders of a group of suburban Virginia homeowners who want to change the Confederate-related street names in their community have been accused of being puppets of George Soros and threatened. 

Where Americans Agree and Disagree on Teaching Race in School

Polls show that 2/3 of Americans think schools need to change how much attention they give to race in the curriculum, but they are split, along party and racial lines, between those who want more and those who want less, making this likely to remain a political wedge issue.

Is Alito's Plan to Repeal the 20th Century?

Alito's invocation of Plessy v. Ferguson as a reason to discard precedent is galling because his opinion would destroy the kind of protection under law that Homer Plessy actually sought. 

Why the End of Roe Isn't Likely to Energize the Democrats

by Natalie Shure

Until the Democratic Party and its pro-choice supporters decide to take action to fix the fact that abortion restrictions are already harming poor and working-class women, they are unlikely to win elections based on their nominal support for abortion rights. 

Smithsonian Announces Plans to Return Looted, Unethically Sourced Artifacts

Smithsonian Institution Secretary Lonnie Bunch III announced the museum's intention to be a world leading institution on repatriating artifacts and promoting reconciliation for colonialism through museums. 

Traveling Smithsonian Exhibition to Highlight 1968 Poor People's Campaign

Reflecting Dr. King's increased attention to matters of inequality and economic justice, the Poor People's Campaign was launched in his honor a month after his assassination. The exhibition will begin at the National Civil Rights Museum at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis. 

Protest Can – And Should – Influence the Supreme Court

by Eric Stoner

Direct action is the only way to push the court's majority more into line with the will of the majority of the public.