The Confederate Flag Doesn’t Commemorate the South’s ‘Lost Cause’—It’s the Symbol of a Cause Won The Confederate Flag Doesn’t Commemorate the South’s ‘Lost Cause’—It’s the Symbol of a Cause Won
The Nation’s coverage of an earlier Confederate flag controversy—from 1887—shows the real reason the flag still flies in South Carolina.
Jun 22, 2015 / Richard Kreitner
June 21, 1964: Civil-Rights Workers Are Abducted and Murdered in Mississippi June 21, 1964: Civil-Rights Workers Are Abducted and Murdered in Mississippi
“In Mississippi today, an ever present danger to a civil rights worker is that he will be detained by the local police on a traffic charge and released, directly or indirectly, to ...
Jun 21, 2015 / Richard Kreitner
‘It’s the Day Without Haitians in Dominican Republic’ ‘It’s the Day Without Haitians in Dominican Republic’
Haitian residents go into hiding as the deadline for mass deportation arrives.
Jun 19, 2015 / Roberto Lovato
The African-American Survival Tactic Dylann Roof Exploited The African-American Survival Tactic Dylann Roof Exploited
The Charleston shooter took advantage of a congregation that welcomed a stranger into its midst.
Jun 19, 2015 / Dani McClain
A Confederacy of Denial A Confederacy of Denial
Guns aren't a problem in this country! Also there's no global warming.
Jun 19, 2015 / Tom Tomorrow
The Reconstruction-Era Violence Lurking in the Southern Air The Reconstruction-Era Violence Lurking in the Southern Air
An editorial in The Nation’s first issue, 150 years ago, shows the long history leading to yesterday’s attack in Charleston, South Carolina.
Jun 19, 2015 / Richard Kreitner
Charleston’s ‘Mother Emanuel Church’ Has Stared Down Racist Violence for 200 Years Charleston’s ‘Mother Emanuel Church’ Has Stared Down Racist Violence for 200 Years
Bullets will not end a church whose history speaks to its heroic resilience.
Jun 18, 2015 / Dave Zirin
June 18, 1989: I.F. Stone Dies June 18, 1989: I.F. Stone Dies
“He combined the meat-and-potatoes moxie of a police reporter, the instinct for precision of a scholar, the question-phrasing skill of a Socrates...and the political philosophy of ...
Jun 18, 2015 / Richard Kreitner and The Almanac
The Charleston Massacre and the Cunning of White Supremacy The Charleston Massacre and the Cunning of White Supremacy
He didn’t just target Denmark Vesey’s church—it was the anniversary of Vesey’s suppressed uprising.
Jun 18, 2015 / Greg Grandin
A Civil-Rights Champion Was Lost in the Attack on Charleston’s Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church A Civil-Rights Champion Was Lost in the Attack on Charleston’s Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church
The church has been linked for centuries to struggles against slavery and segregation and for economic and social justice.
Jun 18, 2015 / John Nichols