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Deputy White House chief of staff Stephen Miller speaks to the media, Sept. 5, 2025. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

MAGA's war on woke is centuries old

Andrew O'Hehir
An anti-ICE protest at a Target in Minneapolis. (Madison Thorn/Anadolu via Getty Images)

A wake-up call for white Americans

Chauncey DeVega
Muhammad Ali speaking with reporters after his 1967 federal indictment for refusing to be inducted into the U.S. armed forces. (Bettmann via Getty Images)

What became of Black celebrity activism?

Jerel Ezell
Mavis Staples performs during the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass music festival at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco on Saturday, Oct. 5, 2024 (Santiago Mejia/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)

Mavis Staples' gospel of resistance

Chauncey DeVega
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Stephen Miller and Martin Luther King Jr. (Getty Images/Salon)

History has the answer to Trump's future

Douglas H. White - TomDispatch.com
Climate protesters interrupt former US president and Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump as he speaks at a "commit to caucus rally" in Indianola, Iowa, on January 14, 2024. (CHRISTIAN MONTERROSA/AFP via Getty Images)

How the resistance can stay persistent

Chauncey DeVega
Dr. Martin Luther King being shoved back by Mississippi patrolmen during the 220 mile 'March Against Fear' from Memphis, Tennessee to Jackson, Mississippi, Mississippi, June 8, 1966. (Underwood Archives/Getty Images)

Missing the point of the MLK holiday

Chauncey DeVega
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (Frank Rockstroh/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty)

MLK.'s lessons in resistance

Chauncey DeVega
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Freedom school teacher Liz Fusco with students- Ruleville, Mississippi. 1964 (Tracy Sugarman/Jackson State University via Getty Images)

Right-wing fake history is nothing new

Robert S. McElvaine
Civil rights leaders Ralph Abernathy, Martin Luther King Jr., former UN Ambassador Ralph Bunche, and Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel (l-r) wear leis during the start of a march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama. The leis were given to the marchers from a group from Hawaii. (Getty Images/Bettmann)

Black-Jewish relations: Past and future

Terrence L. Johnson, Jacques Berlinerblau
Signs are seen on a bench during a rally against "critical race theory" (CRT) being taught in schools at the Loudoun County Government center in Leesburg, Virginia on June 12, 2021. (ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images)

Florida schools now censoring history

Kathryn Joyce
Two policemen carry stretcher bearing Negro nationalist leader Malcolm X after he was downed by an assassin's bullets at a rally on February 21st. The 39-year-old Malcolm was pronounced dead at the hospital when he was taken for treatment. The assassination of the one-time Muslim official came one week after the bombing of his home on February 13th. (Getty Images / Bettmann / Contributor)

Did the FBI order Malcolm X's murder?

Bob Hennelly
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Ku Klux Klan Marching in Washington | American civil rights campaigner Martin Luther King (1929 - 1968) and his wife Coretta Scott King lead a black voting rights march from Selma, Alabama, to the state capital in Montgomery (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

GOP's war on truth gets serious

Chauncey DeVega
A voter arrives to drop off he ballot during early voting in Allentown, Pennsylvania on October 29, 2020. (ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images)

Biden, Dems urged to fight on voting

Andrea Germanos - Common Dreams
Democratic candidates for Senate Jon Ossoff (L) and Raphael Warnock (R) bump elbows on stage during a rally with US President-elect Joe Biden outside Center Parc Stadium in Atlanta, Georgia, on January 4, 2021. (JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images)

Warnock and Ossoff: A new era?

Terrence L. Johnson, Jacques Berlinerblau
Al Sharpton (Getty Images)

Rev. Al Sharpton on fighting Trump

Chauncey DeVega
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No Rules by Sharon Dukett | Hippies standing in front of mini bus, holding musical instruments (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images/She Writes Press)

Lessons from the hippies

Keith A. Spencer
Climate change and environmental disasters (Getty Images/Roy Scott)

The climate crisis must reunite America

Peter Dale Scott
Bill Bar, Devin Nunes, and Donald Trump (Getty Images/AP Photo/Salon)

Will the GOP erase Trump from history?

Amanda Marcotte
2020 candidate and former Vice President Joe Biden gave a powerful speech about race during commemorations of the Birmingham, Ala. 16th Street Baptist Church bombing. (MSNBC)

The Joe Biden wokeness paradox

D. Watkins
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Jerry Falwell and Jerry Falwell Jr. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci/Jeff Fusco/Getty Images)

Falwell sex scandal: Right won't care

Amanda Marcotte
Birmingham bombing, 1963; Masjid Al Noor mosque in Christchurch shooting, 2019. (AP/Getty/Salon)

Sen. Doug Jones talks past and future

Andrew O'Hehir
Donald Trump; Frederick Douglass (AP/Wikimedia/Salon)

Frederick Douglass and the resistance

Chauncey DeVega
Demonstrators march down North Capital Street during protest march within sight of the capitol in Washington, June 14, 1963; Demonstrators protest as they celebrate the verdict in the murder trial of Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke along Michigan Avenue on October 5, 2018 in Chicago, Illinois. (AP/John Rous/Getty/Joshua Lott)

Russia and racism: A brief history

Paul Rosenberg
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