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Negro Law of 1740

2

Throwback: Wounded Knee, 1890

3

Ballot Measures, 2026

4

Colombia, Law 70 (Throwback)

5

Converse & the Klan

6

California Senate Bill 928

7

Far-Right Germany, 2026

8

Shut up, (Fat) Joe

9

Consumption & Cannibalism

10

Meat Market Index

11

After the Salute: Interview with a Veteran

12

Throwback: Bayou of Pigs, Dominica, 1981

13

Odyssey-ing

14

A Tale of Two Wilsons

15

Citizenship in the Territories

16

Big Government is Necessary!

17

Thomas Jefferson, 1788

18

Burkina Faso, 2026

19

New Veterans Bill Proposal

20

Bastardizing Degrees

21

Medicare Changes into 2027

22

Convenience as a Scam

23

San Diego, 1971

24

The War on Poverty

25

Willowbrook, 1946

26

Revisiting Prop 32 (2024)

27

Patrice Lumumba, 1960

28

Fetal Death Registry?! (HB 754)

29

Homelessness Court Program (HB 211)

30

Black Argentina, Then & Now

31

Chinese Jamaicans, 1884

32

¡Viva Dolores!

33

Exclusive Citizenship Act of 2025

34

Frauen Warte (1934)

35

Colombia's Law 70

36

Mississippi Chinese, 1880

37

Blackstone vs. BlackRock

38

Attempted Coup of Gonave, Haiti

39

Irvine and Affordable Housing

40

California New Laws, 2026

41

Throwback: Tepanec History

42

Throwback: HUD & Project 2025

43

Which Degrees Are Professional?

44

J. Edgar Hoover Was Black?!

45

Barbados Slave Code, 1667

46

Queen City, 1892

47

Guaranteed CSU Admissions (SB 640)

48

Skyrocketing Healthcare Premiums

49

Oh, Snap! (Part 2)

50

Prop 50 & the Voting Rights Act

51

Throwback: Latinx Colonial Trailblazers

52

Privatizing Military Operations

53

USDA & Rising Food Costs, 2020-2025

54

"Drained Pool Politics"

55

Equal Pay Act, 1963

56

Native Scalp Bounties, 1733

57

Chinese Mexicans, 1931

58

Immigration & Naturalization Acts in History

59

Throwback: New Laws, 2025

60

The Cult of the Middle Class: Age & Ability (Part 6)

61

Sisters of the Sourdough Starter

62

New Loan Caps

63

Liberia, 1847

64

Lake Lanier, 1912 (aka Oscarville)

65

Alligator Bait (Here We Go Again...)

66

Big Bill, 2025

67

Coolie Labor, 1862

68

Throwback: Gender Was Never Binary

69

Wounded Knee, 1890

70

Gatsby Was Black?

71

Alien Land Law, 1913

72

The Black Dandy, Explained

73

Sinners (Film) Analysis

74

Pay-to-Parent

75

Tariffs, 2025

76

Autism Science Foundation & RFK Jr.

77

"Bayou of Pigs", Dominica, 1981

78

Throwback: Clean Girls & Hot Cheetos

79

Throwback: Defunding DEI, But What's Next?

80

What is Genocide?

81

Altadena, 1960

82

Treason & Sedition

83

Slave Revolts & the Declaration of the Rights of Man

84

Transphobia is Everyone's Problem...

85

Anna Murray Douglass, Thank You

86

Tuskegee Airmen

87

Immigrant Bounty Hunters, 2025

88

"Millions to Negro Girl, 1913"

89

Black Americans & the American Flag

90

New Laws, 2025

91

Throwback: Russia is Playing the Long Game

92

Favorite Things 2024

93

Rent Won't Be Controlled

94

California Minimum Wage

95

HUD & Project 2025

96

Brief History of the Tepanecs

97

"Negro Women To Be Put to Work" (1918)

98

Rescission Act, 1946

99

200th Episode!

100

Ballot Measure HH