The White Journalist Who Turned His Skin Black to Expose the Jim Crow South • As the Supreme Court and the White House push a "colorblind" America that treats acknowledging race as the problem, let's revisit John Howard Griffin, who darkened his skin in 1959 to expose Jim Crow.
Six Justices Just Demolished What Black Americans Died for in 1965 • Three Times in 150 Years, the Court Has Done This
Straight Men Keep Calling Strangers Gay on Camera—The Reason Why Should Terrify Every Guy Watching • A Hawaii content creator's "gay or straight" street interviews have become an unintentional field study in how American masculinity still functions through accusation rather than identity.
Dr. Ibram X Kendi Joins Me to Explain the Great Replacement Theory! • From France to Hungary to El Salvador, one recycled lie convinces ordinary people to ask strongmen for protection from a threat that does not exist.
Ken Burns Told Me "Lincoln Freed the Slaves" Is a Lie. HERE'S WHY (Memorial Day Special) • The Emancipation Proclamation freed no one under Union control, yet the myth of a single white savior still erases the 200,000 Black soldiers who fought for their own liberation.
Why You Haven’t Heard About Sudan—and What the Diaspora Is Building • A reflection on Sudan, diaspora, and the communities taking shape in the wake of war.
NYC’s “Wasian Wonderland” Shows How Mixed-Race Hype Still Centers Whiteness • The 3,000-person Central Park gathering was marketed as inclusive, but organizers' own flyers reveal which mixed-Asian faces the algorithm, the industry, and the brand actually reward.
Instagram Is Letting an AI Account Profit Off George Floyd's Corpse—Help Me Stop It • The company removed an account glorifying neo-Nazi violence after advocacy pressure, but a viral page reducing a murdered Black man to a sci-fi punchline continues to generate ad revenue unchecked.
Right Now in Northern Ireland, Mobs Are Hunting “Foreigners” in a City That Settlers Built • As masked mobs burn immigrants out of their homes in Belfast this week, here's how the descendants of settlers came to hunt “foreigners” in a land their own ancestors arrived in by ship and took.
Right-Wing Conservatives Can Spot a Genocide in Gaza. They Still Can't Admit One Happened in America. • Populist conservatives have broken a decades-old taboo to name what Israel is doing in Gaza, while instinctively shielding the American founding from a definition that fits it just as cleanly.
As the Supreme Court and the White House push a "colorblind" America that treats acknowledging race as the problem, let's revisit John Howard Griffin, who darkened his skin in 1959 to expose Jim Crow.
historycanthide.substack.com
Three Times in 150 Years, the Court Has Done This
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A Hawaii content creator's "gay or straight" street interviews have become an unintentional field study in how American masculinity still functions through accusation rather than identity.
A reflection on Sudan, diaspora, and the communities taking shape in the wake of war.
historycanthide.substack.com
The 3,000-person Central Park gathering was marketed as inclusive, but organizers' own flyers reveal which mixed-Asian faces the algorithm, the industry, and the brand actually reward.
The company removed an account glorifying neo-Nazi violence after advocacy pressure, but a viral page reducing a murdered Black man to a sci-fi punchline continues to generate ad revenue unchecked.
historycanthide.substack.com
As masked mobs burn immigrants out of their homes in Belfast this week, here's how the descendants of settlers came to hunt “foreigners” in a land their own ancestors arrived in by ship and took.
historycanthide.substack.com
Populist conservatives have broken a decades-old taboo to name what Israel is doing in Gaza, while instinctively shielding the American founding from a definition that fits it just as cleanly.
From France to Hungary to El Salvador, one recycled lie convinces ordinary people to ask strongmen for protection from a threat that does not exist.
historycanthide.substack.com
The Emancipation Proclamation freed no one under Union control, yet the myth of a single white savior still erases the 200,000 Black soldiers who fought for their own liberation.
