Harold Washington and Zohran Mamdani lived in different eras, fought different battles, and faced different kinds of opposition — but the political playbook against them feels familiar. Washington faced a Democratic machine that turned on him because he was a Black man threatening the old order. Mamdani faced a party that wouldn’t fully back him because of his ideology and his challenge to the status quo. Two fights. Two eras. Same establishment instincts. Like, follow, and share for more politi

On a day like today, November 22, 1963, John Fitzgerald Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, near Dealey Plaza, circa 12:30 p.m., in an episode that still sparks debate. The event occurred in front of the Texas School Book Depository, where Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested hours later. However, multiple theories spread from Washington, D.C., to Moscow. Some point to tensions with the Federal Reserve due to Kennedy’s economic moves circa 1963. Others link it to his clashes with the CIA after the fai

“It's not just the fish that's vanishing, it's this intimate cultural world which had been passed on for centuries. That world is gone.” Seventy-six years ago, the Colville tribes in Washington watched as nearly 18,000 acres of their reservation was flooded by the reservoir formed by the Grand Coulee Dam. | American Experience | PBS