| | By Made by History / Produced by Olivia B. Waxman | Juneteenth celebrates the long-delayed end of slavery in the United States. However, the struggle over how this history is told continues to stir up controversy. While debates over Black history and education have always existed, they have only intensified under the second Trump Administration. In Made By History, historian Marc Hertzman points to Brazil where similar battles over historical memory have played out over centuries. In the 17th century, thousands of Africans in Brazil escaped slavery and formed a community called Palmares. The community was able to resist repeated attacks from both Portuguese and Dutch forces for over a century. Though Palmares finally succumbed to defeat, the memory of the community and its leader, Zumbi, was passed down through oral tradition. Subsequent generations of Brazil's national leadership attempted to sanitize or erase Palmares, Zumbi, and the history of slavery in Brazil. But Black intellectuals continued to reclaim these vital parts of the nation's past. For Americans, this history is a powerful reminder that reckoning with the past is not a one-time event but an ongoing project to tell a more complete version of our collective history. | |
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| | | | | |  | Trump May be Repeating Reagan's Deep Sea Mining Mistake | Undermining international oceans governance could damage American interests. |
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|  | The History of the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit | Expanding the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit could make a successful program even better—and address a major crisis. |
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|  | Why Pride Month Is in June | The first pride event was held to commemorate the first anniversary of the Stonewall Riots in June 1970. |
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|  | Overlooked Moments in LGBTQ+ History | These milestone moments are essential to understanding the history of queer liberation |
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|  | How One Drag Performer's Overlooked Activism Helped Lay the Groundwork for Today's Fight for Transgender Rights | In 1967, Sir Lady Java protested against legislation that prevented her from working, in an important moment for trans liberation |
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| | | | | This week in 1968: Guns in America |  | The June 21, 1968, cover of TIME |
| Roy Lichtenstein |
| "Emulating their mythicized forebears, Americans have turned their country into an arsenal. Today they own somewhere between 50 million and 200 million pistols and revolvers, shotguns and rifles, as well as uncounted machine guns, hand grenades, bazookas, mortars, even antitank guns. At least 3,000,000 more are bought each year, some twothirds through the mails as easily,' in Lyndon Johnson's words, 'as baskets of fruit or cartons of cigarettes.' Said Maryland's Democratic Senator Joseph Tydings last week in an appeal for more effective legislation to curb this traffic: 'It is just tragic that in all of Western civilization the U.S. is the one country with an insane gun policy.'" |
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| | This week in 1970: Profiling Mike Nichols |  | The June 15, 1970, cover of TIME |
| Cover Credit: Santi Visalli (Nichols); Bob Willoughby (Arkin) |
| "'Covering show business,' says Los Angeles Correspondent Sandra Burton, 'is mostly a problem of logistics. Just when a star is most preoccupied with a film and least accessible—shooting on some remote location or on a closed sound stage—that's when you decide you must interview him. Because it's nearly impossible to get up earlier or work later than he does, it's difficult to see him before or after shooting. So interviewing has to be piecemeal—between takes, on planes, in cars.'...The story was written by TIME Cinema Critic Stefan Kanfer—who has had a couple of his own TV and theatrical comedies produced —and edited by Peter Bird Martin. How did Martin and Kanfer feel about their all-women reporting team? Says Kanfer: 'The work made its customary demands on the cerebrum, but the optic nerve had an easier time.'" |
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| This week in 1982: Israel |  | The June 21, 1982, cover of TIME |
| Alain Mingam |
| "Israel had actually massed its invasion forces four times near its northern border with Lebanon, then each time aborted a strike. But when the Israeli Cabinet finally gave Defense Minister Ariel Sharon the go-ahead for the attack at 11 a.m. on a sunny Sunday morning in Galilee, the impact was stunning, and the portents were both uncertain and ominous. Suddenly, the explosive Middle East, the cockpit of global tensions, was embroiled once again in a spreading war with no definable limits, with no predictable outcome and with potentially tragic consequences. The attack, undertaken despite the strong opposition of the Reagan Administration, starkly revealed anew how little influence the U.S. has over its ally, Israel. The assault also raised the specter of a U.S.-Soviet confrontation in the Middle East." |
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