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SOURCE: The New Republic
1/16/2023
Looking for King's Legacy? Try Guaranteed Income Programs
Thanks in part to a push from Johnnie Tillmon of the National Welfare Rights Association, MLK championed abolishing poverty by guaranteeing a basic income.
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SOURCE: Age of Revolutions
8/8/2022
Thoroughly Modern Maxie: Robespierre and His Legacy for Democracy Today
by Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall
"If Robespierre was not by nature a murderous despot, who was he and what does he have to teach us – especially at a time, like that of the French Revolution, when progressives and liberals are divided about how to prioritize the rights of minoritized groups?"
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SOURCE: Washington Post
8/4/2022
Milbank: January 6 Roots Begin with Gingrich, Not Trump
While relatively little of Newt Gingrich's "Contract With America" became law, the House Speaker who rose to power in 1994 set the tone for the Republican Party's rigid partisanship and demonization of the opposition, a stance that justifies antidemocratic steps to keep power.
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
7/20/2022
Fanaticism May be Alarming, but It's Not New
by Zachary R. Goldsmith
The term "fanatic" evolved from a value-neutral name for participants in Roman religious cults to describe someone with dangerous and erroneous beliefs in religion and then in modern politics. Philosophers from Kant to Burke show the need to pull back from such absolute judgments of our adversaries.
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
1/17/2022
Americans Misunderstand the Radical Vision of even the Young MLK
by Victoria W. Wolcott
Long before the escalation of the war in Vietnam, urban unrest and national battles for fair housing that animated King's late work, he expressed a vision of justice that demanded systemic transformation of American society. His wife Coretta was a profound influence.
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SOURCE: The Metropole
12/8/2021
Rise And Fall Of A Movement — A Review Of “The Young Lords: A Radical History”
by Leo Valdes
Johanna Fernandez's history of the Puerto Rican activist organization reconstructs the movement's roots and shows that an organization formed in 1969 still offers a useful diagnosis of an "urban crisis" rooted in experiences in housing, schools, hospitals, and jails.
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SOURCE: The New Yorker
12/6/2021
What are Frantz Fanon's Lessons for Today?
by Pankaj Mishra
Taken at the moment of the Algerian fight for independence and other colonial liberation movements, "The Wretched of the Earth" was first seen as a beacon of liberatory thought. A new edition frames the ambivalences in Fanon's work on freedom.
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
7/21/2021
Before Nikole Hannah-Jones, Howard U. Professor Sterling Brown was a Lightning Rod for Right-Wing Outrage
by Carole Emberton
Sterling Brown also engendered political opposition and debate about what constitutes U.S. history when he tried to center the narrative on the diverse experiences of Black Americans.
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5/23/2021
Theorizing Politics as Endless Struggle: Bernard Harcourt's "Critique and Praxis"
by Eric Laursen
Bernard Harcourt attempts to rescue critical theory from the grasp of utopians and academics by refocusing on the need to connect critique of society with action to change it, through recognition that there is no end point of politics.
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SOURCE: Money on the Left Podcast
5/1/2021
Remaking Radicalism with Dan Berger and Emily M. Hobson
Historians Dan Berger and Emily Hobson discuss their new primary source anthology on grassroots social movements in the last quarter of the 20th century.
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SOURCE: Spectre Journal
4/21/2021
Revolution is Illegal: Revisiting the Panther 21 at 50
by Orisanmi Burton
"To revisit the history of the BPP is to experience the rhyme of history. Yet, the refrain is not a pleasant one."
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SOURCE: NPR
4/15/2021
The Real Black Panthers
Historian Donna Murch joins NPR's The Throughline to discuss the Black Panther Party's agenda and its targeting by J. Edgar Hoover's FBI.
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4/18/2021
Don't Erase Women's Leadership in the Berkeley Free Speech Movement
by Robert Cohen
Historians have yet to fully examine the role of women in leadership and at the grass roots of the Berkeley Free Speech Movement. Even some of the best and most insightful accounts of the FSM treat it as a movement of men and ignore the key roles of Jackie Goldberg, Bettina Aptheker and others.
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SOURCE: Jacobin
3/2/2021
Newly Obtained FBI Files Shed New Light on the Murder of Fred Hampton
by Aaron J. Leonard and Conor A. Gallagher
New documents shed further light on the involvement of the FBI in the 1969 assassination of Chicago Black Panther Party leader Fred Hampton, who is the subject of the new film "Judas and the Black Messiah."
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SOURCE: New York Times
2/26/2021
The Deep South Has a Rich History of Resistance, as Amazon Is Learning
Columnist Jamelle Bouie draws on the work of historians Michael W. Fitzgerald, Paul Horton, Robin D.G. Kelley, and Robert Widell, Jr. which shows that Alabamians, and Black Alabamians in particular, have organized to fight both racial oppression and labor exploitation.
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
3/1/2021
‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ is the Film to Help Us Understand 2021. Here’s Why
by John Beckman and Theo Zenou
Abbie Hoffman used his conspiracy trial as a guerrila theater stage, the peak of his career as an activist who used absurdity and wit to expose the hypocrisies of American society.
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
2/22/2021
The Campaign to Free the Wilmington 10 Holds the Key to Successful Activism Today
by Kenneth Janken
A campaign to free 10 racial justice protesters in 1972 worked because it connected the cause to the problems with police, poverty, and racism experienced by a broad cross section of the community, and "recognize[d] racism not as separate from history but as part of historical processes and political economy."
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2/21/2021
From Red Finn Halls to The Lincoln Brigade: Class Formation on Washington’s “Red Coast”
by Jerry Lembcke
If the current crisis revives interest in class as an analytical concept, a recent book on union organizing on the Washington state coast offers a model for reconstructing the work, community and social life of a community.
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SOURCE: The New Republic
2/17/2021
The Retrograde Quest for Symbolic Prophets of Black Liberation
by Adolph Reed, Jr.
The prevailing pattern of invoking activist or intellectual figures from Black history as prophetic exemplars of moral and political authority takes those figures out of their historical contexts and discourages consideration of how racism connects to multiple systems of economic and political power in contemporary crises like COVID-19.
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SOURCE: Black Perspectives
2/1/2021
Law Enforcement’s Double Standards for Black Radical Activists
by Denise Lynn
Those puzzled at the FBI's inability to monitor white supremacist and right-wing extremist groups like those involved in the Capitol rioting should consider how the bureau has historically worked to surveil and harass radical Black organizations like the Sojourners for Truth and Justice.
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