Tag: African Americans
In the Image of Jonestown
The War on Drugs Is 50 Years Old
EDITOR’S NOTE: This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To stay on top of important articles like these, sign up to receive the latest updates from TomDispatch.com.
Nina Turner Is Running to Join the Squad
Annette Gordon-Reed’s Personal History of Juneteenth
The publication of the 1619 Project by The New York Times in 2019 pushed many Americans to reconsider what they assumed they knew about African American and, more generally, US history. The project, whose title refers to the importation of the first enslaved Africans to the Virginia colony in 1619, sought to show how, in the introductory words of its special issue, “no aspect