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The Waldorf Astoria: what the history of this legendary hotel says about today’s crisis of the American establishment

After eight years of renovations, the Waldorf Astoria in New York has reopened and is welcoming new guests. The Waldorf – as most people know it – introduced room service, velvet ropes, red-velvet cake and Thousand Island dressing. It gave its name to a salad, a chain of lunchrooms, as…

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Gavin Newsom thought he could steamroll California Democrats over housing, but they just compared him to Jim Crow instead

Democrats bite back.

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Fox News rages that Whoopi Goldberg’s Iran take is ‘as racist as anything’ they’ve ever heard

‘This is not Jim Crow, this is not slavery, and to be making those kinds of comparisons is despicable,’ Fox News anchor Harris Faulkner fumed on Thursday.

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The use of federal troops to quell Los Angeles protests recalls militarized law enforcement during the Civil Rights Movement

President Donald Trump activated 4,000 National Guard troops on June 10, 2025, to quell protests in Los Angeles over immigration raids – without the normal request from the state. He has also sent to Los Angeles hundreds of U.S. Marines, with the goal of protecting the unprecedented deportation operations by…

The Conversation

Texas lawmakers laid the foundation for a housing boom. Here’s how.

The Legislature passed laws allowing smaller homes on smaller lots and making it harder for neighbors to block new housing.

The Texas Tribune

Bingeable comedy, a Jim Crow-era vampire thriller and William Morris mania – what to watch, read and do this week

I recently bought a Now TV subscription because we are in prime prestige TV season and I needed it to watch The White Lotus and The Last of Us. Deep into those big, confronting shows (which are brilliant but, let’s be honest, a lot), I was looking for something that…

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Sinners: how real stories of Irish and Choctaw oppression inform the film

Warning: this article contains minor spoilers for Sinners.

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Sinners is a horror film about the highs and lows of the Black experience

Ryan Coogler’s wildly ambitious period vampire movie is set around the great migration and uses supernatural and real-life horrors to smartly make its point

The Guardian - US

Euronews Culture's Film of the Week: 'Sinners' - These vampires want the blues

Ryan Coogler returns with his most ambitious project yet - a Jim Crow period drama doubling up as a vampire horror that's thrilling and allegorically layered. It's the best film of 2025 so far.

Euronews

History has the answer to Trump's future

To fight Trump's vision of the future, turn to the history he wants to erase

Salon

Black Panther director’s new vampire horror movie starring Michael B. Jordan debuts to fang-tastic 100% Rotten Tomatoes score

The first set of reviews for Sinners are in

Total Film

MAGA is the pushback to public education

Dr. Derek Black: "We as a society will not find our educational promised land anywhere but in our public schools"

Salon

Literacy crisis becomes democracy crisis

Legal scholar Derek Black: America's schools are being targeted by Trump in a way that fuels autocratic populism

Salon

Review: D.C. Museum Exhibit Illuminates the Brutalities of Slavery

The "In Slavery's Wake" exhibit celebrates black Americans' resistance to slavery and Jim Crow.

Reason

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Byron Donalds, Who Claimed 'More Black Families Were Together' Under Jim Crow, Teases Run for Florida Governor Following Trump Endorsement

Byron Donalds, the Florida representative who said "Black families were together" under Jim Crow, teased his run for governor following Trump's endorsement.

The Conversation

Activists are warning of a return to the Jim Crow era in America. But who or what was Jim Crow?

Since becoming president, Donald Trump has issued a record number of executive orders. Several aim to dismantle federally funded initiatives based on the idea that “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI) are goals worth achieving.

The Guardian - US

Wrecking ball: Trump’s war on ‘woke’ marks US society’s plunge into ‘dark times’

President’s ‘culture war’ crusade targets DEI and LGBTQ+ rights in bid to spread rightwing agenda, experts say

The Independent UK

In 'Nickel Boys,' striving for a new way to see

The story of RaMell Ross’ “Nickel Boys,” laced with the cruelties of the Jim Crow-era South, has commonalities with films made before

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Will the American project survive the anger of white men?

At key moments throughout US history, white male anger has been privileged over national security, progress or basic welfare

The Conversation

Ta-Nehisi Coates describes what he saw in Palestine as ‘apartheid’, resembling America’s segregated Jim Crow South

In May 2023, renowned Black American writer Ta-Nehisi Coates spent ten days in the West Bank and Israel, where he spent half his time with Breaking the Silence, a group of former Israeli soldiers who now oppose the occupation.

The Guardian - US

Ron DeSantis banned lessons on racism in Florida public schools. ‘Freedom schools’ fill the gaps

Extracurricular classes teach ‘the majesty and value of Black history’ from the origins of Africa to Jim Crow policies

Reason

Mission to Israel Part V: There Is No "Apartheid"

When I tell Israelis that American students think they are like South Africa, they are shocked.

The Conversation

Students on the frontline: South Africa and the US share a history of protest against white supremacy

Every year on 16 June, South Africa commemorates the revolt of black school children against the inferior “bantu education” system on that day in 1976. The horror of police shooting and killing unarmed children caused a global uproar. Historian Rico Devara Chapman’s research interests include a focus on the African…

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Delroy Lindo Joins Michael B. Jordan In Supernatural Horror Thriller

Delroy Lindo joins Michael B. Jordan in a supernatural horror thriller set in the Jim Crow-era South. Warner Bros. secures rights for the film.

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