Until 1965, Black people couldn’t vote in most of the South. On Sunday, March 7,, 1965, police in Selma, Alabama and state troopers mounted on horseback clubbed hundreds of Black people who attempted to march across the Edmund Pettus bridge to demand the right...
November 20, 2023 editorial of the New Anti-capitalist Party (NPA) in France, translated from French The French government continues to use the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, seeking to brand as anti-Semitic all those who denounce the ongoing massacre in Gaza. But...
In July of 2022, a group of Black teens was washing windshields, known as “squeegeeing,” at a busy downtown Baltimore intersection. A 48-year-old white man got out of his car and threatened the youths with a baseball bat, swinging the bat at at least one of them. One...
During the night of Jan. 13, 1958, the Ku Klux Klan lit its signature fiery crosses on the lawn of a family, members of the indigenous Lumbee Tribe, who had just moved into a white neighborhood. Earlier that night, Klansmen ignited a cross near the...
The death of Black people at the hands of police continues with a horrifying regularity in the U.S. The killing continues in spite of numerous protests and promises from politicians to end police brutality. Kehinde Wiley’s exhibit, “An Archeology of...
