Author : joe bodego

In a nation that prides itself on the American Dream, the accumulation of vast wealth should theoretically provide a buffer against insecurity. Yet, for many...

In discussions about race in America, a familiar pattern emerges. White critics often cherry-pick the most negative elements of Black society—crime statistics, isolated incidents of...

Exploitation and Racial Injustice Post-Emancipation Convict leasing was a system of forced labor that emerged in the Southern United States following the Civil War, effectively...

A Landmark Victory Against Anti-Miscegenation Laws In 1948, the California Supreme Court made history by striking down the state’s anti-miscegenation statute in Perez v. Sharp,...

Criminalizing Love Across Racial Lines For centuries, laws in the United States dictated who could marry whom, using race as the dividing line. Known as...