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Kristallnacht 1938: Assassination of Nazi becomes pretext for campaign of terror
September 22, 2025These selections from our archives carry fresh relevance and offer lessons.
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Supreme Court’s racial profiling decision is Dred Scott all over again
September 17, 2025The court’s ruling on immigrant abductions legalizes flagrant racism and apartheid in the U.S.
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Daily Worker 1933: Reichstag burns; Nazis blame Communists and radical left
September 16, 2025Hitler seized on the fire, blaming the Communists and the supposed radical left as a whole and using the blaze as an excuse to kill German democracy.
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Silence and terror: Analyzing poems by Genevieve Taggard and Richard Wright
September 16, 2025Both poems explore social conflict, challenging the reader to confront systems of oppression, arguing that neutrality in the face of injustice is impossible.
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What one man’s 45-year-old case tells us about the ‘Jim Crow Juries’ haunting Louisiana
September 12, 2025Today, a split verdict would mean a mistrial. But in the 1980s Louisiana, 19-year-old Lloyd Gray, a Black man, was sentenced to prison for life, despite two Black jurors voting not guilty.
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