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Black History Month Is Radical Now

A nation that wants to forget its past must be reminded of all of it.
by Adam Harris via The Atlantic
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on February 19, 2026
School house with Black children playing around it.

How Reconstruction Created American Public Education

Freedpeople and their advocates persuaded the nation to embrace schooling for all.
by Adam Harris via The Atlantic
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on November 13, 2023
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The GOP’s ‘Critical Race Theory’ Obsession

How conservative politicians and pundits became fixated on an academic approach.
by Adam Harris via The Atlantic
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on May 7, 2021
Illustration of the Reconstruction era, with black men waving flags and listening to a speech in front of a governmet building while a white mob comes to attack them with clubs

America’s Political Roots Are in Eutaw, Alabama

When I think about the 1870 riot, I remember how the country rejected the opportunity it had.
by Adam Harris via The Atlantic
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on February 26, 2021

What Jaime Harrison's Race Meant for the South

Jaime Harrison lost to Lindsey Graham but expanded Democrats’ vision of what’s possible in the Deep South.
by Adam Harris via The Atlantic
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on November 4, 2020

The Firsts

The children who desegregated America.
by Adam Harris, Rebecca Rosen via The Atlantic
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on September 29, 2020

An Attempt to Resegregate Little Rock, of All Places

A battle over local control in a city that was the face of integration shows the extent of the new segregation problem in the U.S.
by Adam Harris via The Atlantic
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on October 22, 2019

The Little College Where Tuition Is Free and Every Student Is Given a Job

Berea College has paid for every enrollee’s education using its endowment for 126 years. Can other schools replicate the model?
by Adam Harris via The Atlantic
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on October 11, 2018
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