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Mr. Democracy: The Life and Work of John Dewey(Post)
The American philosopher and radical activist John Dewey was born on this day in 1859 America has a proud tradition of public intellectuals on the Left. Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, Audre Lorde ...
Join Our Fourth of July US Radical History Giveaway(Post)This year we're celebrating the 4th of July by giving away tea towels honoring some of our favorite American radicals. Enter your email address in the widget below to join the contest! a Raffleco ...
Bonus or bust? Radical soldiery in America & the Bonus Army(Post)On this day in 1932, 43,000 members of the 'Bonus Army' marched on Washington D.C to demand their owed bonuses... Perhaps unexpectedly, a radical vein runs through the history of American sol ...
Martin Luther King jr and the Speech That Changed the World (Post)It's 55 years today that "the moral leader of our nation" delivered his beautiful speech: 'I Have a Dream', at the 1963 'March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom'. I know that you've probably ...
Claiming Your Seat On The Bus: The Story of Rosa Parks(Post)Taking public transport can have its challenges, but choosing where to sit on the bus is easy, right? OK maybe not in rush hour NYC... And definitely not so for African American ...
Frederick Douglass: The Man Who Made Abraham Lincoln(Post)On a brisk April morning in 1876, spectators gathered in Washington DC's Capitol Hill district for the unveiling of the new Emancipation Memorial. It had been a decade since the end of the Am ...
What 'Radical' Means to Us(Post)It's a word we throw around a lot... but what do we actually mean?Lamartine in front of the Town Hall of Paris rejects the red flag on 25 February 1848. (Source: Wikimedia Commons)People often ask us ...
Thomas Dorr's Fight for Democracy in the United States of America(Post)On the day of Thomas Wilson Dorr’s birth, we remember a little-known chapter in history of American democracy and what it has to teach us about democratic empowerment today. Democracy is never 'w ...
Crystal Eastman: America's Forgotten Radical(Post)Born today in 1881, Crystal Eastman is likely the most important radical you’ve never heard of. Image source: Library of Congress "History tends to bury what it seeks to reject." …and most do ...
White Supremacy vs Non-Violence: The Superhuman Strength and Courage of the Civil Rights Movement(Post)56 years ago today, four young girls were murdered at a black church in Alabama in an act of white supremacist terrorism. Even in this context of racist extremism and violence, the African-American C ...
Tea Towels Saved My Relationship — With America(Post)In the darkest of times, a radical company from the UK helped me keep my faith in America. We Americans aren’t so different from our British cousins after all. Sure, we once fought a war of ...
Frederick Douglass and the Promise of America(Post)Frederick Douglass said that Independence Day in 1852 wasn't for him. Many still feel left out - dare we hope, as he did, that "'Let there be light' has not yet spent its force"? Image: U.S. Arm ...
Thomas Skidmore: The conflicting fight of freedom for all(Post)Today in 1790, educator, politician, and radical philosopher, Thomas Skidmore, was born in Connecticut, USA.When someone calls for freedom, it's always healthy to ask: freedom for whom? To do what?As ...
The American Origins of May Day(Post)In the 1880s, the US labor movement was doing battle for a shorter, eight-hour working day. Out of this struggle came May Day – the worldwide celebration of workers' rights and resistance to the g ...
Audre Lorde: Black, Lesbian, Mother, Warrior, Poet(Post)Our writer, Tom, explores the legacy of Audre Lorde's intersectional feminism... If you’ve been on our website recently, you might have noticed a bunch of brand new radical tea towels for sale.
Is it OK to Celebrate the 19th Amendment?(Post)Some say that the historic campaign for women's votes is too tarnished by racism to celebrate today. I respectfully disagree. National Woman's Party activists watch Alice Paul sew a star onto th ...