March for Our Lives – The Activist History Review

by Cory James Young April 11, 2018 0

April 2018

Confronting History at the March for Our Lives

The messy realities of the past rarely make for the pithiest of signs. And the reality of private gun ownership in the United States is not that it enjoys the support of an eighteenth-century amendment, but that it enjoys the support of twenty-first-century legislative and judicial interpretations of that amendment.

by Editorial Board April 6, 2018 1

April 2018

Whose Children?: Mom Activism and Race in the Gun Control Movement

Moms Demand Action models itself after Mothers Against Drunk Driving. But to claim an inheritance from MADD is to also lay claim to their particular white suburban praxis, where the theoretically race-neutral title of “mother” works to mobilize women around the deaths of white children.