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‘Happened to turn Black’: how Donald Trump evoked a history of White authorities using their power to define race

Julia Nikhinson/AP by Kathryn Schumaker, University of Sydney In late July, former President Donald Trump told a room of Black journalists that Vice President Kamala Harris,...

Separate water fountains for Black people still stand in the South

In this 1938 image, a Black boy uses a fountain marked ‘Colored’ at a North Carolina county courthouse. Getty Images  – thinly veiled monuments to...

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas moves to reverse the legacy of his predecessor, Thurgood Marshall

by Daniel Kiel, University of Memphis As public attention focuses on Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’ close personal and financial relationship with a politically active...

US schools are not racially integrated, despite decades of effort

Court-ordered desegregation has happened in the U.S. as recently as 2015, when a federal judge issued a desegregation order to the Cleveland, Miss., school...

What America’s voting rights activists can learn from past movements for civil rights

by Anthony Siracusa, University of Colorado Boulder With Congress failing to pass new voting rights legislation, it’s worth remembering that throughout U.S. history, new civil...

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