Art by Jesus Barraza and Melanie Cervantes via JustSeeds. In September 2018, students, faculty, and staff at Duke University rallied alongside local residents to advocate the renaming of Carr Building due to the legacy…
Removing Carr from the building. Photo by Anderson Hagler. By Anderson Hagler In 2017, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors passed a motion to officially changed the name of Columbus Day to Indigenous…
The "Confederate Soldiers Monument" after protestors brought it to the ground in Durham, NC, 2017. Photo via the News & Observer. By James Chappel In his 1963 “Letter from a Birmingham Jail,” Martin Luther King, Jr., explains the greatest impediment to progress. It is not, in…
Duke Students Want Carr Name Removed, September 5 2018. via WRAL.com. By Rayhan Jhanji The Classroom Building (hereafter referred to by its former name, the Carr Building) has become a centerpoint of the struggle for activist…
Classroom Building at Duke University, after Carr was removed from the building. Photo by Anderson Hagler. By Jessica Hauger This piece was written in Durham, North Carolina for a forum about Duke University, an institution occupying land that has long served…
The Calhoun College window after Corey Menafee smashed it. Photo via Yale University. By Jacob Remes On the afternoon of Monday, June 2, 1913, as is now well known, Julian Carr stood before about a thousand people to…
Protesters hold up shields before a confrontation with police in Wan Chai. Photo: Alex Yun for Lausan.
The Abusable Past
By Chris Chien and Ellie TseOn June 9, 2019, approximately one million people marched toward the Hong Kong Legislative Council (LegCo) to protest the second…
Issue 135 of the Radical History Review -- Radical Histories of Sanctuary -- is now available! Click here to access the Editors' Introduction, "Sanctuary's Radical…
by Joseph Plaster “When I walked in [the Peabody Library], I was like, ‘This is gonna go down in history.’ What I like about it so much…