activism

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  4/22/2020
  

  What The Older Generations Owe The Young 50 Years After The First Earth Day

  by Matthew D. Lassiter

  While we cannot commemorate Earth Day 2020 through mass public demonstrations, it is now more urgent than ever to listen to young activists' demands for a safer future and a more just world.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  4/21/2020
  

  50 Years Later, Earth Day’s Unsolved Problem: How to Build a More Sustainable World

  The first celebration called for people to change their relationship with the planet. After a half-century, we’re still figuring out what that means.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  4/18/2020
  

  As Amazon Rises, So Does the Opposition

  Ms. Mitchell is 47, a historian by training. But her real role is the strategist of the demise of Amazon as we know it.

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• SOURCE: The New York Times
  4/20/2020
  

  The ‘Profoundly Radical’ Message of Earth Day’s First Organizer

  Denis Hayes organized the first Earth Day in 1970. Since then, he has continued fighting for environmental justice.

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• SOURCE: History.com
  2/7/20
  

  The MLK Graphic Novel That Inspired Generations of Civil Rights Activists

  The comic book that helped spark a generation of young civil rights protestors did not feature superheroes, but a 42-year-old seamstress and a 26-year-old Baptist pastor.

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• 10/27/19
  

  What Can Historians Do? An Update from Historians for Peace and Democracy

  by Margaret Power and Kevin Young

  We welcome everyone who agrees with our mission, whether professional historians, K-12 teachers, or non-historians with an interest in putting history at the service of movements for peace, democracy, and justice. 

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• SOURCE: The American Interest
  8/27/19
  

  The Price of Self-Delusion

  by Ronald Radosh

  Paul Robeson, the towering figure of American arts, athletics, and civil rights activism, was also an unapologetic Stalinist. Failing to acknowledge this checkered legacy ultimately does a disservice to the goals he fought for.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  8/14/19
  

  America holds onto an undemocratic assumption from its founding: that some people deserve more power than others.

  by Jamelle Bouie

  Featuring the work of historian Manisha Sinha. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  8/1/9
  

  How music took down Puerto Rico’s governor

  by Verónica Dávila and Marisol LeBrón

  Underground music overcame censors to gain popularity and political power.

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  7/20/19
  

  Trump revives the idea of a ‘white man’s country’, America’s original sin

  by Nell Painter

  It can’t be left to black Americans alone to resist the president’s racism. Citizens of all colours need to resist, and embrace activism.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  7/18/19
  

  Citizenship once meant whiteness. Here’s how that changed.

  by Ariela Gross and Alejandro de la Fuente

  Free people of color challenged racial citizenship from the start.

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• SOURCE: Richmond Times-Dispatch
  6/19/19
  

  Can assembling immigrant stories bring change?

  by David A. Taylor

  Each story’s path to citizenship shows “the human cost of our immigration system and what that feels like.”

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• 5/14/19
  

  Cassius Marcellus Clay and Muhammed Ali: What’s in a Name?

  by Joshua M Casper

  They were born with the same moniker, and both changed history. Two names. Two men. Two identities, Muhammed Ali and Cassius Marcellus Clay will forever be linked.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  5/3/19
  

  May Fourth, the Day That Changed China

  by Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom

  Protests in 1919 propelled the country toward modernity. One hundred years later, the warlord spirit is back in Beijing.

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• SOURCE: Time
  5/1/19
  

  A Digital Way to Follow the Freedom Riders’ Journey Against Segregation During the Civil Rights Era

  The Civil Rights activists faced violence in multiple cities in their fight for equality.

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• 1/20/19
  

  Ibram X. Kendi: Remember Dr. King's Nightmare This MLK Day

  by Kyla Sommers

  How historians can be inspired by remembering the radical and realist Dr. King.

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• 1/5/19
  

  What Can Historians Teach The Media In The Era of Trump? 4 Historians Weigh In

  by Kyla Sommers

  “Truth itself is under attack and expertise is suspect." So what role can historians play?

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  3-27-18
  

  Gun-control advocates believe their activism will mirror the fight for gay marriage. They’re wrong.

  by James Kirchick

  The better comparison is Prohibition — and we all know how that turned out.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  3-12-18
  

  Jonathan Zimmerman says students should go on strike to win gun control

  by Jonathan Zimmerman

  West Virginia teachers won by striking. There’s a lesson in that.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  3-5-18
  

  7 Times in History When Students Turned to Activism

  History is full of movements led by students — albeit usually in college, not high school. Some were successful and others brutally crushed, but even the latter still resonate.