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  • How History Textbooks Reflect America’s Refusal to Reckon with Slavery
    Cynthia Greenlee
    How History Textbooks Reflect America’s Refusal to Reckon with Slavery
    15 Jul 2021
    … and the slaves,” wrote graduate student James O. Lewis,   whose thesis on black representations in textbooks … the NAACP’s efforts to revamp racist textbooks.  Lewis also concluded that instructional materials were quick … that slavery began with them in the Jamestown colony. Lewis, however, supported the view of a minority of those …
  • The Racist Origins of Right to Work
    Michael Pierce
    The Racist Origins of Right to Work
    17 Aug 2017
    … national attention through his work with Texas lumberman John Henry Kirby in the Southern Committee to Uphold the … free enterprise. The organization’s nominal head, Lewis Valentine Ulrey, explained that after their success in … national attention through his work with Texas lumberman John Henry Kirby in the Southern Committee to Uphold the …
  • Gun Debate A Narrow Opportunity For Democrats, A Wide One For the Left
    by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
    Gun Debate A Narrow Opportunity For Democrats, A Wide One For the Left
    29 Mar 2018
    … student loans? Nope. Lots of liberal Dems like Atlanta’s John Lewis will tell you that free stuff is just plain … student loans? Nope. Lots of liberal Dems like Atlanta’s John Lewis will tell you that free stuff is just plain …
  • Imagine: The Town Crier’s Cabinet Selections
    Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
    Imagine: The Town Crier’s Cabinet Selections
    16 Dec 2020
    … Malik Yakini; Greg Asbed… Secretariat of Labor: Karen Lewis; Sarah Nelson; The Real Clarence Thomas; Brenda … Malik Yakini; Greg Asbed… Secretariat of Labor: Karen Lewis; Sarah Nelson; The Real Clarence Thomas; Brenda …
  • Jermain Ostiana , Kerry Sinanan
    Decolonizing the Caribbean Intellectual Betrayal of Palestine: What Fanon and Ture Never Would Have Done
    18 Jun 2025
    … Tobago, June 15th, was launched by Distinguished Professor Lewis R. Gordon, of the University of Connecticut. Gordon … dimensions of Black resistance and abolition.   [1] See John Quigley, The Case For Palestine: an International Law … dimensions of Black resistance and abolition.   [1] See John Quigley, The Case For Palestine: an International Law …
  • How Identity Became a Weapon Against the Left
    Briahna Joy Gray
    How Identity Became a Weapon Against the Left
    30 Aug 2017
    … appalled [38] that leftists challenged civil rights hero John Lewis’s commitment to Clinton, but it seems civil rights … wrong to do so. During the 2016 primary, Representative John Lewis unfairly impugned Bernie Sanders’ character, … appalled [38] that leftists challenged civil rights hero John Lewis’s commitment to Clinton, but it seems civil rights …
  • by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
    Cory Booker, Corporate Hooker: The Perfect Establishment Opposition to Donald Trump
    26 Jan 2017
    … for a few minutes of TV time next to civil rights legend John Lewis , denouncing Jeff Sessions, Trump’s reprehensible … wasted his few minutes of air time objecting to Booker and Lewis being last on the schedule, claiming it was like being … for a few minutes of TV time next to civil rights legend John Lewis , denouncing Jeff Sessions, Trump’s reprehensible …
  • by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
    Baltimore's Mayor Rejects $15 Minimum Wage Bill, Sharpening the Divide between Black Workers and Black Political leadership
    05 Apr 2017
    … Nothing has made this more painstakingly clear than in John Lewis and Maxine Waters' embarrassing role in the … fervor that currently plagues Washington. Both Lewis and Waters immediately came out in front of the … Nothing has made this more painstakingly clear than in John Lewis and Maxine Waters' embarrassing role in the …
  • International Law and "European Civilisation"
    Christopher Gevers
    International Law and "European Civilisation"
    12 Apr 2022
    … on to the Cape Town City Hall. Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis said it was an act of solidarity against “imperialism” … race”, as it was described by one of its founding fathers, John Westlake (who taught Smuts).  Little of this nuance made … race”, as it was described by one of its founding fathers, John Westlake (who taught Smuts).  Little of this nuance made …
  • by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
    The Black Caucus and Obama: One-Way Loyalty
    07 Sep 2009
    … held a health equity forum, at which Georgia Congressman John Lewis spoke of the need to launch a “health equity movement” … held a health equity forum, at which Georgia Congressman John Lewis spoke of the need to launch a “health equity movement” …

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