by Amy Goodman | Jun 29, 2026 | Birthright Citizenship, Black History, civil war, Donald Trump, history, Interview, KKK, Racial Justice, Slavery, Temporary Protected Status, TPS, White Supremacy
“I do not love America, and never have, especially now.” Those are the opening words of America, U.S.A.: How Race Shadows the Nation’s Anniversaries, a new book from Princeton historian Eddie Glaude. Released ahead of the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, the book is a critical look back at how the United States has celebrated previous milestone birthdays…
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by Austin C. McCoy | May 8, 2026 | Black History, civil war, DEI, Discrimination, Disenfranchisement, Donald Trump, elections, Gerrymandering, history, ICE, Jim Crow, Op-Ed, Protests, Racial Justice, Racism, Republicans, Supreme Court, Voting Rights, Voting Rights Act
The Supreme Court’s decision to invalidate Louisiana’s congressional map creating two Black-majority districts continues to remind us of how much the U.S. has backpedaled away from the so-called racial “reckoning” of the summer of 2020. The Supreme Court ruling in Louisiana v. Callais undermines another key plank of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, passed more than 60 years ago with the intent of…
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