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The very fact that the third clause of the Fourteenth Amendment--banning those who have committed insurrection from holding public office--is now relevant testifies to the depth of the present crisis.

The proto-Taylorist methods of worker control Charles Babbage encoded into his calculating engines have origins in plantation management.

Book World: What made the civil rights movement successful - and what came next Clifford Thompson, The Washington Post Feb. 19, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail "The Movement: The African American Struggle for Civil Rights" By Thomas C. Holt By Chad Sanders - - - Thomas C. Holt's slim volume, "The Movement: The African American Struggle for Civil Rights," achieves in just 120 pages of text a comprehensiveness that belies its length. What makes that possible is that Holt focuses on the civil rights movement itself rather than the personalities involved. We do not get, say, an assessment of the chara...

A new book takes a communal look at a history that has long been buried. "Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019" collects the work of 90 writers — historians, poets, journalists, novelists and activists — to tell the stories of Black Americans, from the arrival of the White Lion, which brought enslaved people to the colonies in 1619, to the Black Lives Matter movement. Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones writes a chapter on the arrival of the White Lion, a harrowing tale which she calls “classically American.” “The Ada...