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It was designed to grant slave states more influence.

Black people are expected to sing songs that, for so long, declared and celebrated freedom that specifically excluded us.

A little-known fact about our country's most prominent symbol.

“If you take away imperial plunder, what else do you have to offer?”

OG History is here to explain what you thought you knew about the Civil War.

Many American men found the idea too effeminate for their liking.

A 1968 report commissioned by LBJ explains what's happening right now.

Over a century ago, black people met white mob violence with countless defiant acts of self-defense.

I traveled to the Tulsa community where a white-led massacre in 1921 left hundreds dead.

Let's do his memory justice.

“The long history of her activism shows us how the path to liberation is a lifelong, continuous, and courageous process.”

Thousands congregated in Chicago to protest U.S. imperialism during the Vietnam War.

Many of the same struggles for political freedom, recognition, and autonomy alive in 1917 still exist today.

Hermila Galindo challenged societal norms that expected a woman’s place to remain in and of the home.

The police teargassed them — and some of their parents — in return.

Lizzie Magie wanted to warn people about the dangers of monopolies, not encourage them.

“She advocated for free love. She advocated for revolution.”

Happy 40th anniversary!

Public health risks can stir the ruling class to action.

The 15th Amendment was just one important milestone.