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5/22/2022
California Isn't a Liberal Sanctuary where Asian Americans are Concerned
by Hao Huang
Anti-Chinese racism and violence has always been part of the nightmare underside of the California dream.
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How We Told the Ongoing Story of Title IX
by Laura Mogulescu
A curator and her team chose to center the work of activists who pushed to determine the scope and meaning of Title IX's prohibition on sex discrimination in education throughout the law's 50-year history. Their exhibit is now open at the New-York Historical Society.
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5/8/2022
Reigniting a Nuclear Arms Race is the Wrong Take-Home from Ukraine
by David P. Barash
A simplistic assumption of nuclear deterrence – that having nuclear weapons protects a nation against aggression – has frequently failed in practice. The Ukraine invasion should be a call to rethink deterrence and move toward abolishing nuclear weapons.
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5/1/2022
High Crimes and Lingering Consequences: How Land Sale Contracts Looted Black Wealth and Gutted Chicago Communities
by Tiff Beatty
Chicago artist Tonika Lewis Johnson is creating public installations documenting properties where Black residents were subjected to predatory contract home sales, and connecting the past to the present struggles of the city's south and west sides.
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5/1/2022
Recent Violence Shows the Need to Teach More Asian American History
by Alan J. Singer
The targeting of Asian Americans for violence and harassment shows the need to teach more of the history of Asian ethnic groups and acknowlege legacies of exclusion and discrimination.
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5/1/2022
A Century After the First Insulin Injection, It's Time to Make Sure It's Affordable
by Martin Abrahamson and Sanjiv Chopra
The US Senate has the opportunity to honor the legacy of the doctors who pioneered insulin treatment by making sure that everyone who needs this life-saving medicine can afford it.
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4/24/2022
Footage in NYC's Archives Sheds Important Light on the Northern Civil Rights Movement and Police Efforts to Undermine It
by L.E.J. Rachell
Surveillance footage in the New York City Archives helps to highlight the importance of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) to the northern civil rights movement – and the techniques the NYPD used to disrupt it.
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4/24/2022
The Issue of Visibility in Latino Art
by Ricardo Romo
"The moment is ripe for bringing Latino art to public spaces and public museums. The number of talented Latino artists has multiplied over the past two decades, and the opportunity to make their work visible is now."
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4/24/2022
"Two-Spirit" Visibility and the Year Activists Rewrote History
by Gregory D. Smithers
In 1990, a group of Native activists coined the term "Two-Spirits" to encompass a variety of people who embodied masculine and feminine traits in indigenous communities, replacing colonizers' terminology that emphasized shame or deviance. Marginalized communities change their history by changing who tells their story, and how.
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4/17/2022
This Failed Blockbuster Killed Old Hollywood (and Maybe John Wayne, Too)
by Ryan Uytdewilligen
When John Wayne played Genghis Khan in a disastrous Howard Hughes production, it helped to kill RKO studios. Did it also expose the cast and crew to deadly nuclear fallout?
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4/17/2022
Even With the Challenge of a Nuclear Crisis, 1962 Was a Year of Hope
by Walter G. Moss
For HNN Contributing Editor Walter Moss, 1962 was a year when it seemed the US was capable of overcoming the gravest challenges with positive results (it was a good year for him personally, too).
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4/12/2022
On "Smoking Guns"—Yesterday and Today (and Tomorrow?)
by Jim Zirin
As text messages between Donald Jr. and Mark Meadows surface, it seems the last roadblock to a prosecution of Donald Trump over January 6 is a lack of will, not a lack of evidence.
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4/10/2022
The Problem of Presidential Isolation
by Michael A. Genovese
Today, who can speak truth to the president’s power? And to whom can a president unburden himself in those moments of stress and self-doubt? From whom can the president expect direct and candid advice?
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4/10/2022
The Erosion of the Concept of Legitimate Opposition Undercuts Democracy
by Jeff Kolnick
The rising tendency to see partisan opponents as enemies of the nation justifies action to weaken democracy.
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4/10/2022
After 50 Years, "The Godfather" Still Has Fresh Lessons For Us
by Sam Ben-Meir
Francis Ford Coppola couldn't have anticipated the Trump presidency and its aftermath, but his 1972 masterpiece nevertheless helps uns to understand it.
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4/10/2022
Ketanji Brown Jackson's Forbearance Echoed Jackie Robinson Before HUAC
by Bruce W. Dearstyne
In a Congressional hearing intended to sow guilt by association between civil rights and global communism, the baseball great refused to take the bait, keeping the focus on the need for justice and fairness in America.
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4/3/2022
The Integration of College Hoops Came through Many Small Shining Moments
by Chad Carlson
Cutting the nets in New Orleans, the Kansas Jayhawks follow the legacy of many players and coaches who gradually chipped away at racial exclusion in college basketball.
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4/3/2022
Ralph Lauren's HBCU Tribute Line is Part of a Long History of Fighting for Recognition through Fashion
by Einav Rabinovitch-Fox
The designer's new collaboration with Morehouse and Spelman Colleges is more than a marketing ploy; it reflects the long history of Black college students (and Jewish tailors and designers) working to make the fashionable representation of the American ideal more inclusive.
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3/27/2022
Can Joe Biden Resist War Pressure and Lead Toward Peace?
by Martin Halpern
It will take political courage and wisdom for Biden to resist a policy course toward war by diplomatic engagement with Russia.
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3/23/2022
Decoding Partisan Declarations of What Makes a "Good Judge"
by James D. Zirin
Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson has a wealth of legal and judicial experience. The Sixth Amendment guarantees the right to counsel under the Constitution. Why, then, is her service as a public defender a source of partisan attacks on her nomination?
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