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The Elephant in the Room

There cannot be democracy for Jews in Israel as long as Palestinians live under a regime of apartheid, as Israeli legal experts have described it.

A Brief History of the Ku Klux Klan Acts

Joseph Patrick Kelly The Conversation
The 1870s laws passed by the Reconstruction Congress to enforce 14th Amendment rights and to protect Black voters, ignored for decades, are now being used against Trump.

The Segregationist Roots of Anti-Woke Ideology

Lawrence B. Glickman Slate
After Brown v. Board of Education in 1954, segregationists attempted to use state power to punish progressive corporations, civil rights groups, and media outlets; pundits condemned what they saw as the narrowing of acceptable discourse.

Mandela’s Black Marxism

An interview with Paul S. Landau by Chris Webb Africa is a Country
Nelson Mandela is deified everywhere. But typically missing is an account of his early years, when he insisted that Marxism be responsive to South African conditions.

Friday Nite Videos | June 9, 2023

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I Tracked Down My Anonymous Landlord... Here's What Happened. How a 1968 Student Protest Fueled a Chicano Rights Movement. Santos' Lawyer Was Part of the J6 Mob. Why Did Our Brains Shrink? The Canadian Village Incinerated by Record Temperature.

Contemporary Pundits Need a Refresher on Populism’s History

Steve Babson History News Network
Elites who tar their critics in the U.S. with the sly pejorative of “populist” count on our collective amnesia. They’d rather the real Populists remained forgotten, along with the potential they represented.

Friday Nite Videos | May 12, 2023

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Tuberville on White Nationalists in the Military: ‘I Call Them Americans.’ The House of the Rising Sun | Wuaquikuna. MEMORIAL DAY MASSACRE: Workers Die, Film Buried. Native Americans Demand Accountability. Where Are All the Denisovans?

MEMORIAL DAY MASSACRE: Workers Die, Film Buried

Film explores the tragic, but largely forgotten, 1937 incident in Chicago when police shot 40 steel workers and supporters (mainly in the back) and killed ten of them. Commentary by Studs Terkel, Howard Zinn, and Gore Vidal.

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