Long Crises: Kim Phillips-Fein Interviews Benjamin Holtzman

While New York's mayoral campaign has invoked the "bad old days" of the 1970s, the city today is still experiencing the political-economic crisis that erupted 50 years ago. 

The Unknown History of Black Uprisings

by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor reviews Elizabeth Hinton's new "America on Fire" and explains how it shakes up established accounts of a "good" and "nonviolent" civil rights movement giving way to protest and violence.

The Shocking MOVE Bombing was Part of a Broader Pattern of Anti-Black Racism

by J.T. Roane

The Philadelphia Police Department bears responsibility for the deadly bombing of the rowhouse occupied by MOVE members, but the carnage shows a long pattern of indifference by multiple municipal departments to the health, safety, and quality of life of Black residents in the 1970s and 1980s.