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Attorney General William Barr (HIP SOMODEVILLA/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

AG: Lockdowns worst abuse since slavery

Igor Derysh
Surrounded by members of law enforcement, U.S. President Donald Trump holds up an executive order he signed on “Safe Policing for Safe Communities” during an event in the Rose Garden at the White House June 16, 2020 in Washington, DC. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

The American tradition of law-and-order

Austin Sarat - The Conversation
Statue of Jefferson Davis inside a crypt in Mississippi (Dwaine Rieves)

Lessons of a Confederate behind bars

Dwaine Rieves
Sen. Tom Cotton (Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images)

Cotton: Slavery was a "necessary evil"

Roger Sollenberger
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Painting of the Boston Massacre showing Crispus Attucks, one of the leaders of the demonstration and one of the five men killed by the gun fire of the British troops, as he is shot. The Boston Massacre took place in 1770 and was a preliminary riot in the War of Independence from the British. (Getty Images)

We need monuments to Black resistance

Jeff Biggers
Police in riot gear stand near Centennial Olympic Park during rioting and protests in Atlanta (JOHN AMIS/AFP via Getty Images)

American apartheid: It's still here

Lucian K. Truscott IV
The memorial for George Floyd (Steel Brooks/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

The racist roots of American policing

Connie Hassett-Walker - The Conversation
Family of Ahmaud Arbery embrace at the Glynn County Courthouse during a protest of the shooting death of Arbery on May 8, 2020 in Brunswick, Georgia (Sean Rayford/Getty Images)

Blurred blue line of citizen’s arrest

Seth W. Stoughton - The Conversation
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Protestors affiliated with the "Occupy Wall Street" protests wave signs and banners. At right: A rally during the Great Depression (AP/LOC)

History shows economy often wins

Peter C. Mancall - The Conversation
Tomi Lahren (AP/Colin Young-Wolff)

Lahren: Distancing is "willful slavery"

Roger Sollenberger
(Getty/Nicholas Kamm/AP/Reinhold Matay/Salon)

America: The land of make-believe

Chris Hedges - Truthdig
Ayanna Presley and Betsy DeVos (Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Zach Gibson/Getty Images)

Betsy DeVos compares abortion to slavery

Igor Derysh
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African-American men voting in a state election in the south during reconstruction in an 1867 illustration from Harper's Weekly. That year in the reconstruction states 703,000 Blacks and 627,000 Whites voted. (Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

What to know about Reconstruction

Tiffany Mitchell Patterson - The Conversation
UNITED STATES - DECEMBER 4: Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, speaks during the House Judiciary Committee hearing on the impeachment inquiry of President Trump in Longworth Building on Wednesday Dec. 4, 2019. (Photo by Caroline Brehman/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images) (Caroline Brehman/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

What’s wrong with the Republicans?

Rebecca Gordon - TomDispatch.com
Marcus Samuelsson (AP/Mark Von Holden)

Marcus Samuelsson gives thanks

Chauncey DeVega
Prospero, Miranda and Ariel, from "The Tempest," Act I, scene ii Prospero, Miranda and Iris - "The Tempest," Act IV, Scene I, Thomas Stothard, 1755-1834, British (Sepia Times/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

"The Tempest," colonialism & resistance

Paul Yachnin, Hannah Korell - The Conversation
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Donald Trump (Getty Images/Salon)

Republicans have a fantasy Constitution

Paul Rosenberg
Olin Tezcatlipoca from the Mexica Movement speaks to demonstrators in front of a statue of Christopher Columbus during a protest against Columbus Day in Grand Park, Los Angeles, California on October 11, 2015. The Mexica Movement is amongst a growing group of people and US cities that want change the name of the 'Columbus Day' holiday to 'Indigenous Peoples Day. (MARK RALSTON/AFP/Getty Images)

The truth about Columbus Day, explained

Matthew Rozsa
President Abraham Lincoln signs the Emancipation Proclamation, Jan. 1, 1863, in Washington. (AP Photo)

When Republicans were republican

Forrest A. Nabors - Niskanen Center
Jonathan Holloway and Stephen Schwarzman (AP Photo/Getty Images/Yale Daily News/Julia Henry)

Two buildings at Yale: An American story

Jim Sleeper
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Author Marianne Williamson speaks during the first of two Democratic presidential primary debates hosted by CNN Tuesday, July 30, 2019, in the Fox Theatre in Detroit. (AP/Paul Sancya)

Dems talk race, Trump doubles down again

Matthew Rozsa
(AP/Jae C. Hong/Salon)

NH Republican: Slaveowners not racists

Alex Henderson - Alternet
Mitch McConnell; Barack Obama (Getty/Tom Brenner/AP/Julio Cortez)

Mitch invokes Obama in reparations fight

Matthew Rozsa
Mitch McConnell (Getty/Alex Wong)

Mitch McConnell and slavery

Chauncey DeVega
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