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Following McGirt decision, Oneida Nation case continues string of Indigenous court victories
September 2, 2020The decision is the direct result of the Supreme Court ruling in McGirt v. Oklahoma, issued on July 9, declaring that the Creek Reservation in that state still exists.
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‘We Charge Genocide’ petition’s call for justice still echoes seven decades later
August 26, 2020The We Charge Genocide petition indicted the anti-Black crimes and violence of U.S. capitalism. The Claudia Jones School for Political Education and the Paul Robeson House are keeping its memory alive.
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How Communist ‘popular front’ activism built a labor-community alliance that changed Detroit
August 24, 2020Rather than focusing on the CPUSA’s relation to the Soviet party—a favorite topic of historians—Ryan Pettengill has begun to unearth the everyday activities of rank-and-file Communists.
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The Lost State of Sequoyah: The Five Tribes’ fight against Oklahoma statehood
August 24, 2020The politics of Oklahoma statehood was a traumatic and bitter pill for all the citizens of the Indigenous republics, which brought to fruition the Sequoyah Statehood Convention Movement.
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‘Black Suns’ at Louvre Lens: Coal mines transformed into gift shops
August 21, 2020This transformation is strikingly visible in the setting in which the painting is displayed, that is, in Lens’s transformation from mining to museum economy.
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