Black Entrepreneurs during the Jim Crow Era

The Henry Ford Archive of Innovation Two Sisters Beauty Salon, 1945-50. THF240367 “Jim Crow” laws—first enacted in the 1880s by angry and resentful Southern whites against freed African Americans—separated blacks from whites in all aspects of daily life.  Favoring whites and repressing blacks, these became an institutionalized form […]

The Sociobiology Wars

New York Review of Books On Saturday we published an essay, by the historians of science Mark Borrello and David Sepkoski, detailing the late evolutionary biologist Edward O. Wilson’s unpublished correspondence with J. Philippe Rushton, a Canadian psychologist whose spurious research was devoted to proving a racial basis for intelligence, […]

On 900,000 Dead in the U.S.

By Caroline Mimbs Nyce The Atlantic An estimated 900,000 people have now died from the COVID-19 in the United States alone. On 900,000 Dead in the U.S. (Mario Tama / Getty) That the U.S. has now logged more than 900,000 deaths due to COVID is somehow both unimaginable […]

Breaking Points: 2/7/22 Full UNCUT SHOW

Krystal and Saagar talk about the Rogan cancellation saga, GoFundMe’s battle with Canadian truckers, state department lies on Ukraine, Syrian civilians killed in a drone strike, CNN in disarray, the financial interests behind Rogan smears, the campaign against Rogan as anti-politics, & how big pharma broke the American […]