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The Urgency of a Third Reconstruction

Robert Greene ▪ July 9, 2018

The ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment marked a turning point in U.S. history. Yet 150 years later, its promises remain unfulfilled.

Remember the Orangeburg Massacre

Robert Greene ▪ February 7, 2018

Too often forgotten, the February 1968 killing of three student protesters by state troopers in Orangeburg, South Carolina marked a turning point in the black freedom struggle.

How to Fight White Backlash

Robert Greene ▪ November 10, 2017

What three seminal books by black intellectuals, all published in 1967, can teach us about fighting racism in the Trump era.

Frightening as it is, Trumpism has many precedents in U.S. history—and the social movements of the last century, from the Southern Tenant Farmers Union to ACT UP, offer important lessons for how to fight it.

South Carolina, Democratic Bellwether

Robert Greene ▪ February 26, 2016

South Carolina, and the South in general, has served as a bellwether for the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination since 1992.

The Fall of the Confederate Flag

Robert Greene ▪ July 15, 2015

The fall of the Confederate flag in Columbia, South Carolina, has been over fifty years in the making. What does it mean for the state, for the South, and for the nation?