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An Invaluable Black Public Broadcasting Archive Is Now Accessible Online

The American Archive of Public Broadcasting is a repository of interviews and broadcast content dealing with the spectrum of African American history and political activism. 

Georgia’s Center of Political Gravity Shifting Toward Atlanta

"As Georgia transforms from a Republican stronghold to the nation’s premier battleground state, a seismic geographic shift is underway."

SPLC: Over 160 Confederate Symbols Were Removed in 2020

"The nonprofit organization, based in Montgomery, Ala., started tracking symbols of the Confederacy after a white supremacist killed nine Black worshipers at a storied African-American church in Charleston, S.C., in 2015."

Lawrence Otis Graham, 59, Dies; Explored Race and Class in Black America

Graham's writing examined the tensions facing wealthy African Americans in a society divided on both racial and class lines. 

How Negro History Week Became Black History Month and Why It Matters Now

Historian Martha S. Jones traces the lineage of Black History Month from a day promoted by educator Mary Church Terrell to honor Frederick Douglass, through the work of Carter G. Woodson to promote knowledge of Black history, to the present. 

A Harvard Professor Called Wartime Sex Slaves ‘Prostitutes.’ One Pushed Back

One of the last survivors among the Korean "comfort women" of World War II has denounced a recent paper characterizing the trafficking of women by the Imperial Japanese Army as ordinary prostitution. 

African-American Sacrifice in the Killing Fields of France

For their bravery in capturing Séchault from the Germans on Sept. 29, 1918, and for other combat action, the regiment known as the "Harlem Hellfighters" was awarded France’s highest military honor, the Croix de Guerre, soon after the war. 

The Future of the Middle Class Depends on Student Loan Forgiveness

Writer Anne Helen Petersen says that understanding the broken student loan system requires rejecting the narrative of individual choice and focusing on the history and social effects of debt.

Republicans Are Trying to Kill What’s Left of the Voting Rights Act

by Ari Berman

Voting Rights expert Ari Berman says that Chief Justice John Roberts's career gives troubling indications of how the court will rule on cases that could render the Voting Rights act impotent. 

“UT Needs Rich Donors”: Emails Show Wealthy Alumni Supporting “Eyes of Texas” Threatened to Pull Donations

A number of wealthy University of Texas alumni have threatened to withhold donations unless "The Eyes of Texas," a song with roots traced to blackface minstrelsy and the Lost Cause mythology, is reinstated as the Longhorns' postgame anthem. 

These Portraits Revolutionized the Way Queer Women Were Seen in the 1970s

Joan E. Biren (known as JEB) published a collection of photographs of lesbians in 1979, a pioneering representation of queer women living openly. It will be reissued in March with retrospective essays. 

“Decades in the Making”: How Mainstream Conservatives & Right-Wing Money Fueled the Capitol Attack

Author Brendan O'Connor says the Capitol riots were decades in the making, and discusses the history of ideology and institution-building on the right that organized the riots. 

What the FBI Had on Grandpa

by Molly Jong-Fast

"I never considered my grandfather to be a danger to the republic, but J. Edgar Hoover disagreed." The FBI surveilled writer Howard Fast extensively, though, as he wrote in his autobiography, "the eleven hundred pages detailed every—or almost every—decent act I had performed in my life."

Franco: Melilla Enclave Removes Last Statue of Fascist Dictator on Spanish Soil

The statue was the last standing after a 2007 law recognized the suffering caused by Francoism and began a process of removing memorials to the dictator. 

Lawrence Ferlinghetti Obituary

Lawrence Ferlinghetti's influence lasted long past the Beat Generation (of which he was perhaps the last survivor) through his ownership of the landmark independent City Lights bookstore in San Francisco.

Heating Up Culture Wars, France to Scour Universities for Ideas That ‘Corrupt Society’

France's minister of higher education has pledged to investigate "Islamo-leftism" as a corrupting influence on society allegedly promoted by French university scholars. 

West Hartford is Mostly White, While Bloomfield is Largely Black. How that Came to be Tells the Story of Racism and Segregation in American Suburbs

Local historians in West Hartford are working to promote public knowledge of exclusionary zoning and other practices that built and maintained racial segregation in the suburbs. 

The Rise and Fall of the L. Brent Bozells

by Timothy Noah

The charging of L. Brent Bozell IV with disorderly conduct for entering the Senate chamber on January 6 prompts reflection on how a series of men named L. Brent Bozell trace the evolution of American conservatism. 

US Deports 95-Year-Old Former Concentration Camp Guard To Germany

Friedrich Karl Berger, a German citizen, was sent back to Germany this month for serving as a guard of a Neuengamme concentration camp subcamp near Hamburg in 1945.

The Legacy of Rush Limbaugh (Podcast)

The Times Podcast "The Daily" looks at the career and legacy of the controversial radio host.