I am not being hyperbolic. Our insistence on segregating our histories, in encapsulating the struggle for voting/civil rights as a Black struggle and not an American one, has helped bring us to this moment. We did not have representative democracy until 1965. W/o the VRA, it is unlikely to survive.

The training behind the sit-ins: how Black civil rights activists in Virginia, 1960, learned to resist smoke, slurs and physical abuse without reacting

happy jackie robinson day folks

On this day, in 1947, Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier.

Trump is to Republicanism as Stalin was to Marxism. The end of an experiment towards which it was always heading.

Trump has lost the culture. But what if the universal conventional wisdom—that he won the culture in the first place—was never true? What if our warped media environment, then Trump's victory, created an illusion of MAGA cultural dominance that is now slipping. This is a long one, so strap in.

I recommend the Long Shadow podcast on this anniversary of 9/11 Their first season focused on 9/11… with subsequent seasons telling the narrative of the rise of righteous wing extremism that has entirely consumed the Republican Party today. longshadowpodcast.com

“I wish I understood the beauty in leaves falling. To whom are we beautiful as we go?” David Ignatow beautywelove.blogspot.com/2012/04/thre...