- A lesson in the price of colonization: How Britain stole $45 trillion from India.
- The Future of the Queen. An interesting look at the British Royal Family, steeped in the current moment.
- A History of Juneteenth.
- The Silent Parade of 1917 – a thing I learned about for the first time just a couple of weeks ago.
- How a mysterious ghost ship brought cosmic disco to Cape Verde. This reminds me of nothing so much as how the NYC blackout in 1977 led to the rise of hip hop music. Give people the resources they need to make art, and they’ll make art!
- The Racist History of Portland, the Whitest City in America. Y’all. Oregon didn’t ratify the 14th Amendment until 1973.
- Assa Traoré and the fight for Black lives in France.
- Environmental Justice Means Racial Justice.