American history
For some children born abroad, US citizenship has never been a guarantee
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For children born in the shadows of overseas US military bases to local women, their citizenship status has long been contested.
Perspectives
Setting the historical record straight for the critics of The New York Times project on slavery in America
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A historian says that critics get the past wrong.
Perspectives
White nationalists’ extreme solution to the coming environmental apocalypse
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White nationalists in the US and Europe are appropriating the language of environmentalism.
Perspectives
400 years of black giving: From the days of slavery to the 2019 Morehouse graduation
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Billionaire Robert F. Smith made a big splash when he told Morehouse grads he would pay off their student debt. Yet his generosity adheres to a long African American tradition.
Perspectives
Trump administration revives public charge clause that kept Nazi-era refugees from the US
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During the Nazi era, roughly 300,000 additional Jewish refugees could have gained entry to the U.S. But the immigration law’s “likely to become a public charge” clause kept them out.
Perspectives
What Canada and South Africa can teach the U.S. about slavery reparations
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Reparation opponents who oppose truth and reconciliation by insisting that America’s “original sin” of slavery is in the distant past should heed the lessons of Canada and South Africa.
Perspectives
The long, bipartisan history of dealing with immigrants harshly
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Trump has expanded and escalated the most punitive policies he inherited from his predecessors.
Perspectives
The forgotten history of segregated swimming pools and amusement parks
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Municipal swimming pools flourished in the 20th century. But too often, their success was based on the exclusion of African Americans.
Perspectives
Less than three-fifths of a Fourth of July
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Most Americans don’t think about how painful and complicated our Independence Day can be for Black people to whom it never applied.
African-Americans
Not all Americans have a fair path to a good death – racial disparities are real
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There are many conversations these days around ‘successful dying.’ Two African American scholars argue why these conversations need to include race and how it impacts life span.