Reposted by LaShawn Harris
In our latest issue, @nancymaclean.bsky.social meditates on the history of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 because MAGA, she writes, is "counting on public amnesia about why these transformative policies were needed in the first place and how they were won."
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The Forgotten History of the Civil Rights Movement’s Fight for Economic Justice
By turning DEI into a slur, Trump and MAGA want to erase the radical promise of the movement that won civil rights.
![Tell Her Story
Eleanor Bumpurs & the Police Killing That Galvanized New York City
By LaShawn Harris
“[An] immersive account . . . With a kaleidoscopic view of the shooting’s aftermath that draws on interviews, court proceedings, and national and international reactions, Harris paints the killing as a major turning point in American political consciousness, when Black activists and the public began to question police treatment of the disabled and mentally ill. The result is an elegantly written and riveting view of a pivotal but little-remembered political sea change.”
—Publishers Weekly, Starred Review
“Harris’s impeccably researched and elegantly written volume brings new visibility to this significant story.”
—Ms. Magazine
“An excellent study of the 1980s that captures the heart and soul of the social movements that foreshadowed calls to ‘Say her name.’ A timely and necessary book.”
—Marcia Chatelain, author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America
“A powerful and poignant rescuing of the life and tragic murder of Eleanor Bumpurs . . . will both haunt and inspire. . . . Her searing narrative reminds us that this nation’s too-regular and brutal police killings of Black women have always been met by extraordinary family and community mobilization, and the demand for justice.”
—Heather Ann Thompson, author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy
“A gripping historical rendition of the tumultuous transition from the hope of the civil rights era to the misguided projections of a presumed post-racial Obama era . . . It is an absolute must-read.”
—Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, author of Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership
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