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  • Racism in America
    April 1, 2021

    Slavery is our nation’s original sin; the treatment of people of color a blot on the history of a country “conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal." Here, a variety of Moyers conversations with Michelle Alexander, Bryan Stevenson, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Maya Angelou, David Simon, and others offer a useful primer on the history of racism in the United States and its continuing impact.

  • Letters From an American
    Silencing Black Voters, Again
    March 29, 2021
    | Heather Cox Richardson

    Today, Republicans talk about “election integrity,” but their end game is the same as that of the former Confederates after the war: to keep Black and Brown Americans away from the polls to make sure the government does not spend tax dollars on public services.

  • Letters From an American
    The Southern System
    March 27, 2021
    | Heather Cox Richardson
    Georgia's new voter suppression law has deep roots.
  • Letters From an American
    As Maine Goes, So Goes the Nation
    March 15, 2021
    | Heather Cox Richardson
    Happy Birthday Maine
  • Inequality
    The Incalculable Debt That America Owes Black People
    February 26, 2021
    | Bruce Bartlett

    The Biden administration is reviving the legal and moral case for slavery reparations.

  • History
    Frederick Douglass and Ulysses S. Grant on Reconciliation and Its Pitfalls
    January 28, 2021
    | Stephen West
    The post-Civil War years teach us the perils of heeding calls for reconciliation while ignoring those for justice.
  • Letters From an American
    The GOP — Is Not the Party of Lincoln
    November 15, 2020
    | Heather Cox Richardson

    Men like Abraham Lincoln organized to overturn the idea that they were mindless workers, doomed to menial labor for life. In 1859, Lincoln articulated a new vision for the nation, putting ordinary men, rather than elite slaveholders, at the heart of national development.

  • For the Record
    Lest We Forget: The Birther Lie
    August 14, 2020
    Donald Trump rode to power on the wings of a dark lie — one of the most malignant and ugly lies in American history. Bill Moyers and four historians on Donald Trump and white supremacy.
  • Poets & Writers
    A Poet a Day: Amiri Baraka
    July 3, 2020
    The Why's and the Wise
  • History
    Frederick Douglass: "What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?"
    July 2, 2020

    In 1852 Frederick Douglass was invited by the Rochester Ladies' Anti-Slavery Society to give a speech commemorating the Fourth of July. On July 5, the crowds filling Corinthian Hall, Rochester, New York, did not get what they expected.



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