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  • She Votes!
    The Mother of All Celebrations
    August 20, 2020
    | Ellen Goodman and Lynn Sherr
    Our foremothers turned ridicule into respect and oppression into the power of a majority.
  • Civil Liberties
    Susan Smith: Roses and Blood
    July 28, 2020
    | Susan Smith

    When the horse-drawn wagon carrying the body of Rep. John Lewis began to make its way up the Edmund Pettus Bridge, it felt like there was a stirring of the ancestors, those in that “great cloud of witnesses” whose spirits are ever with us and who were with a young John Lewis the day police officers nearly killed him for daring to march across the bridge as part of the work to get black people ...

  • Activism
    Resistance for Real: The Moment Has Come
    July 26, 2020
    | Jim Sleeper
    Channeling the Wall of Moms
  • Letters From an American
    Crackdown in Portland
    July 20, 2020
    President's Narrative Breaks Down
  • Justice
    On "Taking a Knee"
    July 9, 2020

    In response to the breathtaking, turning-point events of the past several weeks, Archives for Research into Archetypal Symbolism has produced a special video exploring and amplifying the symbolism of "Taking a Knee."

  • 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.

  • Justice
    Bill Barr and the Ghost of Fascism
    June 28, 2020
    | Henry Giroux
    Lawlessness in Trump’s Fascist State
  • In Other News: Historic Coalition Unites to Challenge Poverty & Revive Democracy Amidst Recession, Pandemic & Protests
    June 19, 2020

    “Poor and low-income people from more than 40 states will demand change as they share stories of struggling through poverty and protests for racial justice at a historic digital assembly and march sponsored by The Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival.” The assembly and march will be aired at 10 AM and 6 PM ET on Saturday, June 20, and at 6 PM ET on Sunday, June 21. 

  • Letters From an American
    Standing Up or Shutting Up
    June 16, 2020
    | Heather Cox Richardson
    The White House squares off against opponents.
  • Letters From an American
    The GOP’s Long Game Anti-Voter Strategy
    June 15, 2020
    | Heather Cox Richardson

    As far back as 1986, the modern Republican Party has tried to win elections by keeping Democratic voters—usually people of color—from the polls.



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