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Thirty years after its publication, The Age of Extremes by Marxist historian Eric Hobsbawm still stands as the best history of the “short twentieth century (1914-1991).

The onslaught of racial backlash is rooted in an ongoing battle between Reconstructionist supporters of multiracial democracy and Redemptionist supporters of white supremacy and the Lost Cause. The struggle is how to win the narrative war for the nation’s soul.

The United States economy keeps Black labor at the bottom because when bosses conceded on slavery, they settled on poverty wages. While white

/PRNewswire/ -- In recognition of Juneteenth, Operation HOPE, a national nonprofit dedicated to helping low-and moderate-income Americans thrive in an...

We are not perfect, and will always be a work in progress, even in wokeness. But we get better because of those who have been, and are, woke.

Many white Southerners adopted their own equation of the era of the civil rights movement with Reconstruction, warning...

The ousting of two Black Democrats from the Tennessee House of Representatives makes clear that the US urgently needs to salvage and rebuild a true multiracial democracy.

<p style="margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in">"I started thinking that it’s actually very important—and very harmful—that we locate our fundamental values in the Founding and the America of 1776 rather than Reconstruction and the America of 1868."</p>

<p style="margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in">"I started thinking that it’s actually very important—and very harmful—that we locate our fundamental values in the Founding and the America of 1776 rather than Reconstruction and the America of 1868."</p>

In The Third Reconstruction, historian Peniel Joseph examines how how the broken promises of racial equality in the past might be fulfilled in the future.