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The Predictable Backlash to Critical Race Theory: A Q&A With Kimberlé Crenshaw
“Wherever there is race reform, there’s inevitably retrenchment.”
by
Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw
,
Jon Wiener
via
The Nation
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on
July 5, 2021
“No Matter How Different the Movements Were, the LAPD Targeted Every One of Them”
From the Black Panthers to the Communist Party, radical Los Angeles in the ’60s was a seething cauldron of unrest, united by the brutal repression of the LAPD.
by
Mike Davis
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Jon Wiener
,
Meagan Day
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Jacobin
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on
May 29, 2020
Vietnam in the Battlefield of Memory
On the war's 50th anniversary, peace activists will be challenging the Pentagon's whitewashed history.
by
Jon Wiener
via
The Nation
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on
April 15, 2015
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Set the Night On Fire
: L.A. in the Sixties
Mike Davis, Jon Wiener
2020
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Radical Movements in 1960s L.A.
A review of "Set The Night on Fire", an inspiring book that points to a new generation of activists who remain unbowed by conservative historiographies.
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Ryan Reft
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The Metropole
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January 11, 2021
The Many Explosions of Los Angeles in the 1960s
Set the Night on Fire isn't just a portrait of a city in upheaval. It's a history of uprisings for civil rights, against poverty, and for a better world.
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Samuel Farber
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Jacobin
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on
June 29, 2020
Notes from the Cold War Underground
The weapons infrastructure of the Cold War is now getting rented out on Airbnb or memorialized as patriotic kitsch.
by
Emily Harnett
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The Baffler
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October 22, 2024
The History of the “Riot” Report
How government commissions became alibis for inaction.
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Jill Lepore
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The New Yorker
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on
June 15, 2020
All the Presidents’ Librarians
Presidential libraries are too important for historians to ignore.
by
Michael Koncewicz
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Contingent
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July 19, 2019
