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Small-town America’s never-ending struggle to maintain its values hasn’t always been good for US democracy

by Joseph Patrick Kelly, College of Charleston For better and worse, the Maury County Courthouse in Columbia, Tennessee, has come to represent the overlooked cultural...

Guest Editorial: Sabotaging reparations

A serious discussion of reparations for Black Americans has been flirted with on and off for the past few years. Dollar amounts have been...

When Confederate-glorifying monuments went up in the South, voting in Black areas went down

by Alexander N. Taylor, George Mason University Confederate monuments burst into public consciousness in 2015 when a shooting at a historically Black church in Charleston,...

DeSantis’ ‘war on woke’ looks a lot like attempts by other countries to deny and rewrite history

SB 266 aims to stop college professors from teaching about systemic racism. Spencer Platt/Getty Images by Rochelle Anne Davis, Georgetown University and Eileen Kane, Connecticut College A...

Juneteenth, Jim Crow and how the fight of one Black Texas family to make freedom real offers lessons for Texas lawmakers trying to erase...

Joshua Houston leads a Juneteenth Parade in Huntsville, Texas, in a photo circa 1900. Sam Houston Memorial Museum and Republic of Texas Presidential Library by Jeffrey...

Students are often segregated within the same schools, not just by being sent to different ones

by Kari Dalane, American University School of Public Affairs The big idea Children from low-income households are increasingly being segregated into different classrooms from their peers...

Cover To Cover…‘Jim Crow Wisdom…”

You’ve always prided yourself on being a good storyteller. You’ve always been able to craft a good tale—whether it was one of imagination, one to...

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