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Sen. Roy Blunt confirms: GOP is the party of Jim Crow

June 28, 2021 By Berry Craig

What we see today is a Republican Party that follows naturally from Nixon’s Southern Strategy.

Iconoclash: Removing racist monuments doesn’t erase history

July 23, 2020 By Al Neal

For as quickly as empires rise and fall—and fall they will—so too fall their monuments, statues, artwork, and gods.

Confederate statues are monuments to the ‘Lost Cause’ cult of white supremacy

July 23, 2020 By Judith Ezekiel

Confederate monuments are not memorials to fallen soldiers or to victims of war: They are intentional instruments in revisionist U.S. history pushing a sympathetic view of the Confederacy.

Anti-slavery solidarity united Abraham Lincoln, Karl Marx, and British workers

June 25, 2020 By John Wight

Reviving a forgotten history of anti-slavery solidarity.

Pelosi ordena retiro de retratos confederados del Capitolio

June 19, 2020 By Matthew Daly

“No hay espacio en los salones sagrados del Congreso ni en ninguna parte para homenajear a hombres que representan los violentos prejuicios y el racismo grotesco de la Confederación”.