Author: William Horne

William Horne is a historian of white supremacy and Black liberation movements in the United States at the University of Maryland, College Park. He was co-founder and longtime editor of The Activist History Review and has spoken and published extensively in public-facing venues including TIME, Truthout, the Nation, the Daily Beast, the Washington Post, and the Bucks County Beacon along with numerous scholarly publications.

by William Horne April 23, 2018 1

April 2018

Anderson Runs for Mayor to Stop the Painful Violence

Charles’ art and activism have been a fixture in the city for the last decade, so when I learned Charles would be running for mayor, I knew I wanted to interview him.

by William Horne February 9, 2018 15

February 2018

White Americans Fail to Address Their Family Histories

There is a conversation about race that white families are just not having. This is mine.

by William Horne November 17, 2017 5

November 2017

Who Counts as a Worker and Who Deserves Help?

As we occupy a world of increasing plenty, we must concede that the way we distribute resources is a choice. We choose to let our fellow Americans in Puerto Rico starve. That is our collective failure, not theirs.

by William Horne September 29, 2017 1

September 2017

Lindsay Hendrix fights myths to tackle hunger

We work to help ensure that folks who may not have enough to eat get the food they need.

by William Horne August 29, 2017 0

August 2017

Advice from a Katrina Refugee on Hurricane Harvey

It may be a truism that the storm washed massive structural injustices into our collective view, but as a country, we seem to have rationalized them away.

by William Horne July 14, 2017 1

July 2017 Spotlight On: Revolutions

American Consumer Empire in Puerto Rico

Puerto Ricans were forced to become “Porto Ricans” – adopting Anglo customs and holidays all while subsidizing American profits – without the hope of equality.

by William Horne April 14, 2017 1

April 2017

Interview with State Museum Champion Tim Chester

Tim Chester’s resignation Monday as Interim Director of the Louisiana State Museum system set off something of a firestorm in Louisiana. According to Chester’s resignation letter, Lt. Gov. Billy Nungesser engaged in “political interference in daily museum operations” that threatened the viability of the institution.

by William Horne March 10, 2017 1

March 2017 Spotlight On: Race

Bring Back Our Jobs: Work, Machines, and Energy Infrastructure

Sometime in the late 1930s, Irene Robertson interviewed Mary Teel about her memory of slavery and her life since. Some of Robertson’s questions clearly made the formerly-enslaved Teel feel uncomfortable, like when she asked about the Klan, education, and voting. Nonetheless, Teel’s account of slavery and its aftermath repeated a theme common among her peers: years of hard work still left her “hard up.”

by William Horne January 20, 2017 2

January 2017 Top Stories

Unthinkable Obamacare

As the death of Obamacare looms like a grim reaper over so many of us with preexisting conditions, lower incomes, or non-traditional forms of employment (Uber, anyone?), it seems worthwhile to examine some the primary obstacles to public acceptance of the Affordable Care Act (ACA/Obamacare).