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Supreme Court Denies Holocaust Victims’ Property Claims Against Nazi Germany, Hungary

The Supreme Court ruled that despite the evidence of the theft of property from victims of the Holocaust, their descendants could not seek relief against the German government by invoking international law in a U.S. Court. 

New Bills Target Stone Mountain, Confederate Monuments Across Georgia

Two bills would act to broadly prohibit the maintenance or construction of Confederate monuments except in museums or on Civil War battlefields and authorize the state-chartered agency that maintains Stone Mountain Park to remove or modify the park's massive bas relief tribute to Stonewall Jackson, Robert E. Lee and Jefferson Davis. 

It's not Tex-Mex: New Documentary Digs Deep into Texas Mexican Food, History

Adán Medrano's new streaming documentary focuses on the influence of indigenous culture and the labor of women and immigrants in the food culture of Texas. 

Senator Tammy Duckworth Wants FDR Memorial to Be Accessible for People with All Disabilities

While disability activists won a battle to have FDR portrayed in a wheelchair in his memorial, there have been ongoing problems with the site's design and layout including braille markers that are decorative rather than legible. 

Colorado Lawmakers Poised To Replace Capitol's Civil War Monument With Sand Creek Massacre Memorial

Native American advocates say the Colorado state capitol is an appropriate place for the memorial to the massacre of Cheyenne and Arapaho by the US military, but critics question whether it should replace a memorial to the Union Army. 

Rare Winston Churchill Painting Kept in a NOLA Family's Closet for Over 5 Decades Recently Sold for Millions by Angelina Jolie

Churchill painted the scene the day after the January, 1943 Casablanca Conference meeting with Franklin Roosevelt to strategize for the defeat of Nazi Germany. 

Vernon Jordan, Civil Rights Icon and Former Clinton Adviser, dies at 85

"Born Aug. 15, 1935, in Atlanta, Jordan grew up in the segregated South and became an influential leader in the civil rights movement, Washington politics and Wall Street."

Biden Administration Pauses Transfer of Holy Native American Land to Mining Firm

While tribes and environmental groups celebrated the Forest Service announcement, they noted the threat of losing Oak Flat remains.

Tulsa Public Schools To Launch New Curriculum For Teaching The 1921 Race Massacre

Board member Pastor Jennettie Marshall expressed enthusiasm about the new lesson plans: "Over these 100 years, for African Americans -- and I can only speak for African Americans -- we have lived in this city, and we have walked around feeling that our pain and our history and, as individuals, we were invisible."

The UK Government’s Obsession with ‘Culture Wars’ is a Threat to Democracy

In the British debate over the public history of colonialism and empire, are conservative government ministers the ones really engaged in "cancel culture"? 

Democrats Can't Kill the Filibuster. But they Can Gut It

by Norman Ornstein

The veteran congressional analyst argues that there are reforms short of blowing up the filibuster that could win the support of two recalcitrant Democrats and allow the party to pass legislation, largely by returning to older Senate rules governing the filibuster.

Newly Obtained FBI Files Shed New Light on the Murder of Fred Hampton

by Aaron J. Leonard and Conor A. Gallagher

New documents shed further light on the involvement of the FBI in the 1969 assassination of Chicago Black Panther Party leader Fred Hampton, who is the subject of the new film "Judas and the Black Messiah." 

Reading A Letter That's Been Sealed For More Than 300 Years — Without Opening It

A new digital technique can allow researchers to virtually read letters, folded by the senders to thwart tampering, without having to open or damage the artifacts. 

Trumpism Grips a Post-Policy G.O.P. as Traditional Conservatism Fades

by Jonathan Martin

This year's CPAC meeting shows a remarkable Trumpian orthodoxy among Republican officials that stands out in contrast to the intense public debates that have followed previous electoral defeats. 

(Opinion) If Curtailing Racist Imagery in Dr. Seuss is ‘Cancel Culture,’ What, Exactly, is Your Culture?

by Philip Bump

Washington Post columnist suggests that accusations of "cancel culture" following the Dr. Seuss estate's decision to remove six books from print tell more about the accusers than about the subject.

What The History Of 'Noose Road' Tells Us About Kansas, Race And The Lynchings Of Black Men

Despite its Great Plains location and history of abolitionism, Kansas has been the site of lynching, sundown towns and violent exclusion of Black residents. Historians Ashleigh Lawrence-Sanders and Jim Leiker discuss. 

Bunny Wailer: Reggae Legend who Played with Bob Marley Dies, Aged 73

The star, whose real name was Neville O'Riley Livingston, had been the last surviving member of The Wailers. 

Some Dr. Seuss Books with Racist Imagery will Go out of Print

The decision, which was made by Dr. Seuss Enterprises and is neither an instance of "cancellation" nor a fatal blow to the revenue generated by the late author's works, reflects growing awareness of the impact on children of ethnic stereotypes. 

Georgia’s Center of Political Gravity Shifting Toward Atlanta

"As Georgia transforms from a Republican stronghold to the nation’s premier battleground state, a seismic geographic shift is underway."

The Muddled History of Anti-Asian Violence

The COVID pandemic has led to increased hostility and violence targeting Asian Americans. Younger activists, who want to define these attacks as crimes of bias, struggle to convince the wider society that these individual incidents are part of a historical pattern of racism.