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Crownsville Hospital under construction in 1911.

Books

The madness of Cousin Maynard

by Antonia Hylton January 23, 2024December 20, 2024

Kaiser Permanente healthcare workers walk the picket line in Los Angeles as they begin a three-day strike involving more than 75,000 workers, October 4, 2023.

Black labor has always powered the fight for democracy

by Zara Jemuel, Truthout December 15, 2023December 20, 2024

Photo illustration by Alex LaSalvia. Courtesy of Donovan X. Ramsey and One World Books.

Books

What the crack epidemic reveals about America

by Alex LaSalvia August 1, 2023December 20, 2024

This Land is Our Land | Austin’s Freedom Towns

by The Emancipator June 19, 2023December 20, 2024

Mural on the side of Elks Lodge #1102 in Nashville, Tennessee, featuring Jimi Hendrix in a guitar duel from when the building housed Club Baron.

Jefferson Street jams

by Margaret Littman February 9, 2023January 8, 2025

Women at a roped-off lunch counter stage a sit down to protest segregation in Nashville, Tennessee, March 26, 1960.

Nashville’s historic Woolworth building is in trouble

by Margaret Littman and The Emancipator February 7, 2023December 20, 2024

Khalid Kamau, South Fulton, Georgia, mayor, raises his fist while participating in the Juneteenth Atlanta Black History parade on June 18, 2022. Juneteenth, or Emancipation Day, commemorates the end of chattel slavery on June 19, 1865 in Galveston, Texas, in compliance with President Lincoln's 1863 Emancipation Proclamation.

Time for a new Emancipation Proclamation

by Jeffrey Boutwell and The Emancipator December 27, 2022December 20, 2024

American soldiers look at charred huts after a Vietnam War bombing in Kuong Tung in 1967.

Under my skin

by J. Michael Martinez and The Emancipator November 10, 2022December 20, 2024

Fred Korematsu (left), Minoru Yasui (center), and Gordon Hirabayashi (right), at a Jan. 19, 1983 press conference in San Francisco on the petitions to reopen their three landmark cases that challenged the evacuation of 120,000 Japanese Americans to internment camps during World War II.

The great resisters of Japanese American history have a powerful story to tell

by Kimi Waite and The Emancipator September 7, 2022December 20, 2024

This photo from Wednesday Aug. 16, 2017, shows a photo of Heather Heyer, who was killed during a White nationalist rally, surrounded with flowers at a Charlottesville, Virginia, memorial paying tribute to her life.

From civil rights to Unite the Right: What the photographs say

by Aniko Bodroghkozy August 10, 2022January 6, 2025