History

Historical events and milestones towards racial justice.

Rethink the Founding Fathers.
Andrew Lee
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Interpreting the Founding Fathers’ wishes is a staple of American political discourse. Constitutional originalism is more of a conservative thing, but really, Founding Father mindreading cuts across the ideological spectrum. The Founding Fathers would have hated partisanship (History) or Trump (Foreign Policy) or gun control (History) or not having gun control (HuffPost). Obama informed us, helpfully, that the Founding Fathers didn’t want presidents to serve three year terms (ABC). The Atlantic told us the Founders would have been especially disgusted by Trump’s pardon of the former owner of the San Francisco 49ers (The Atlantic).

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Advocate for reparations for the Tulsa Race Massacre survivors.
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In 1921, a white mob rampaged through Tulsa, Oklahoma’s Black Wall Street, burning, killing, and looting until they destroyed one of the few contemporary centers of Black wealth in the United States. This May, after a century, the Tulsa City Council finally acknowledged the horrifying massacre and announced it would investigate paying reparations to Tulsa’s Black citizens. We have five days to pressure Tulsa City Council to adopt a reparations resolution that would go beyond mere acknowledgement and begin to make right past harm, discrimination, and violence that continue to affect Black communities.

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Understand whiteness.
Andrew Lee
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But race is a social construct, and social constructs have social histories. Our modern understanding of race was created at a specific historical juncture in colonial Virginia. Prior to that, it did not exist.

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COINTELPRO targeted Black activists throughout history. How does it impact Black Lives Matter today?
COINTELPRO Black Activists

COINTELPRO targeted Black activists throughout history. How does it impact Black Lives Matter today?
Nicole Cardoza
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COINTELPRO, a series of covert and illegal initiatives by the FBI, and its impact on Black activism in the 1960s.

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Support Black farmers.
Black cotton farming family from the 1890s

Support Black farmers.
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Black farmers lost 870,000 farms in the past 60 years. Now, Black farmers advocate for agricultural education in their communities.

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History Politics
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Acknowledging the Anti-Blackness in Classical Art
A historical bust from the Roman period sits on a pedestal next to six other statues.

Acknowledging the Anti-Blackness in Classical Art
Mary-Hannah Oteju
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Historically, interpretations of classical art are based on preconceived notions of anti-blackness when whiteness is seen as the standard.

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The History of the Texas Rangers
A Texas ranger on a horse aims rifle off into the distance.

The History of the Texas Rangers
Jami Nakamura Lin
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The Texas Rangers law enforcement agency is mythologized in popular media as moral defenders of the law, ignoring a long history of violence.

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The Push to Change Racist Sports Team Names
A crowd of people standing around a neon sign that reads "Atlanta Braves," at night.

The Push to Change Racist Sports Team Names
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Many professional sports teams, such as the Kansas City Chiefs, have names or mascots that revere genocide and racial violence.

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