The Enduring Fight to Protect Voting Rights
In the age of growing voter suppression, understanding the history of the Voting Rights Act is critical in ensuring access.
read moreHistorical events and milestones towards racial justice.
In the age of growing voter suppression, understanding the history of the Voting Rights Act is critical in ensuring access.
read moreSolidarity amongst marginalized groups requires education, organizing, and work but is essential in dismantling white supremacy.
read more“What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” is a scathing critique of the failed promises of the Declaration of Independence to Black enslaved people.
read moreJuneteenth commemorates the ending of slavery in the United States, yet more than 150 years later, Black people continue to fight for their rights and freedom.
read moreThe introduction of the Puerto Rico Status Act acknowledges the history of colonization against the island and sets a path for radically shifting the island’s relationship with the U.S.
read moreLoitering laws date back to the Jim Crow era when laws were designed to trap Black people in the convict leasing system.
read moreMemorial Day is one example of how the whitewashing of U.S. history enables the minimizing of the contributions and injustice of Black people in favor of whiteness.
read moreRacial hoaxing incidents often resulted in violence and injustices against Black people, like the Rosewood Massacre, Groveland Four, and the lynching of Emmett Till.
read moreAntisemitic incidences continue to rise due to the spread of racist misinformation and lack of education on the Holocaust.
read moreUnlike the unjust trials of the Scottsboro Boys, white vigilantism often ended in lynchings, one of which inspired the song “Strange Fruit.”
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