They advocated women's suffrage and an eight-hour workday, but beneath these claims by the Klanswomen lurked something sharper than the needle with which they sewed their own hoods.
They advocated women's suffrage and an eight-hour workday, but beneath these claims by the Klanswomen lurked something sharper than the needle with which they sewed their own hoods.
Defendían el sufragio femenino, pero bajo los reclamos de las mujeres del Klan se escondía algo más afilado que la aguja con la que cosían sus propias capuchas.
Hint: It has everything to do with white privilege.
From Wilfredo 'Bazooka' Gomez to Vazquez Jr., the island has been a school for some of the best fighters in the world.
A journalist and activist for the rights of Mexican Americans and women, Idár spoke out like no one before her against racism and injustice
Castro will be the first Mexican, first Latino, and first POC to lead the largest university system in the United States.
Half a century has passed since the largest anti-war march by an ethnic group in the U.S. that was marked by police violence. What has changed after Black (& Brown) Lives Matter?
Se cumple medio siglo de la mayor marcha antibélica de un grupo étnico en U.S., marcada por la violencia policial. ¿Qué ha cambiado tras el Black (& brown) Lives Matter?
This finding could prove that Mayan society was not as hierarchical as believed, but that community work existed.
99 years after the Tulsa Massacre we are still not learning from history or compensating the victims of the tragedy.
99 años después de la Masacre de Tulsa seguimos sin aprender de la historia ni compensar a las víctimas de la tragedia
The magazines of the time talked about this "bad women troupe" performing secret rites and even they organised raids to arrest them.
Could a pirate radio program broadcast from Alcatraz have changed the Americans' view of a historical shame?
When misery is commonplace, quarrels are set aside. This is the conclusion of a devastating documentary by Texas filmmaker Ray Santisteban, which PBS broadcast on January 27.
From the 'barrios' to the Major Leagues, an unprecedented exhibition traces the Hispanic community's contribution to this national sport.
We live in a time of digital archives. With just one click, we access an overwhelming amount of information. But, traditional files are still important to keep our past intact. Budgetary constraints attached to that tradition are a threat to our political commitment to memory and history.
Vivimos en una época de archivos digitales. Accedemos a una cantidad apabullante de información con sólo un clic. Pero los problemas presupuestarios de los archivos tradicionales comprometen el compromiso político con la memoria y con la historia.
A new exhibition opened at the Reina Sofia Museum which features art and artists that were ignored during the 1970s.
El popular actor colombiano John Leguizamo regresará a Broadway, donde ha cosechado varios éxitos con sus monólogos, para llevar al escenario de Studio 54 su "Latin History for Morons", una sátira llena de humor que comienza el 19 de octubre, anunciaron hoy los productores.
"Que la sombra de la luna caiga sobre un mundo en paz" – Frank Reynolds
Un nuevo día, un nuevo monumento al polémico Rizzo vandalizado en Filadelfia. Manifestantes de ambos bandos, a favor y en contra de este controvertido y corrosivo ex alcalde y comisario de policía de la ciudad, han sido convocados hoy para protestar frente a su estatua. Una de las manifestaciones tendrá lugar hoy lunes a las 4PM, mientras que la otra, convocada por los seguidores de Rizzo, ha sido denegada por el Ayuntamiento.
"May the shadow of the moon fall on a world at peace." - Frank Reynolds
Another day, another controversial Rizzo monument vandalized in Philadelphia. Ralliers, both those in favor and those against the notoriously corrosive and prejudiced former police commissioner and Mayor, were set to protest today. One is set to occur at 4PM today, while the other, comprised of Rizzo's devotees, has been shut down by the City.
Si es cierto, como algunos afirman, que por el aumento en la estridencia de los supremacistas blancos es aceptable mostrar prejuicios raciales, entonces los blancos comenzarán a sentir el dolor de ser asociados con un pequeño grupo radical de racistas extremos.
If it’s true, as some assert, that the increased stridency of white supremacists has made it acceptable to show racial prejudice, then white people are going to start feeling the pain of being associated with a small, fringe group of over-the-top racists.
