Race & Ethnicity
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Black America's Promised Land: Why I Am Still a Racial Optimist
Nov 10, 2014Hope and pessimism have defined two traditions of American thinking about race. Fully acknowledging recent setbacks, the author makes the case for the tradition of hope.
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The Making of Ferguson: How Decades of Hostile Policy Created a Powder Keg
Oct 13, 2014Long before the shooting of Michael Brown, official racial-isolation policies primed Ferguson for this summer’s events.
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Last Day of a Young Black Man
Jul 23, 2013Fruitvale Station's intimate portrait of Oscar Grant promises better days ahead for black film.
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Trayvon Martin, Blackness, and America's Fear of Crime
Jul 16, 2013Further thoughts on pathology and "black on black" crime.
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Race or Class? The Future of Affirmative Action on the College Campus
Jun 22, 2014Focusing college-student recruitment on poor neighborhoods can overlook middle-class African Americans entitled to affirmative action.
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How the American South Drives the Low-Wage Economy
Jul 06, 2015Just as in the 1850s (with the Dred Scott decision and the Fugitive Slave Act), the Southern labor system (with low pay and no unions) is wending its way north.
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Immigration and America's Urban Revival
Jul 07, 2015The evidence favors a hypothesis many Americans reject: Immigration has helped reduce crime and revitalize city economies.
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Urban Policing, Without Brutality
Jul 20, 2015Cincinnati has emerged as a role model of policing reform—but even the best-in-show has a long way to go.
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How the 1968 Columbia Student Uprising Looks Now
Apr 19, 2018The echoes can still be heard today of what happened on the Columbia University campus 50 years ago this month.
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Robert F. Kennedy: Teachings for Today
Apr 13, 2018RFK had an uncanny capacity to reach across racial lines. He learned by listening and empathizing.
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Reviving the Fair Housing Act at 50
Apr 11, 2018New efforts in progressive states focus on affordability—which would also diminish segregation.
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The Federal Government's Secret War on Black Activists
Apr 04, 2018In a chilling echo of the 1960s, law enforcement agencies have stepped up surveillance of racial justice advocates and groups exercising their constitutional rights.
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Martin Luther King Jr. 50 Years After
Apr 03, 2018Dr. King was a prophet. Even more importantly, he was a strategist. Both lessons endure.
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Martin Luther King Jr.: The Prophet as Healer
Apr 03, 2018Whether by example or by strategy, Dr. King always looked for opportunities to build bridges.
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Puerto Rican Refugees and the Elusive Blue Wave
Mar 20, 2018Emigres from the island could be recruited to the Democratic camp, but will progressive organizing defeat right-wing money that ties relief to recruiting?
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The Nativist Didn't Return. He Was Waiting Here All Along
Mar 06, 2018A new exhibition of photographs of the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II sheds light on the same racial nativism fueling Trumpism.
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There Are Echoes of the Fugitive Slave Act in Today’s Immigration Debate
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Democracy and Its Discontents
Feb 16, 2018Three authors engage with the threats to a liberal society.
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Brexit Hate Propaganda
Feb 15, 2018The Daily Telegraph’s attack on George Soros crosses a new line
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Sheltering Muslim Domestic Violence Survivors
Feb 09, 2018With Islamophobia at historic levels, a Muslim social services provider finds that women who flee to shelters often confront new abuses from non-Muslim survivors and staff members.
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The Staying Power of Black History Month
Feb 08, 2018For decades, critics disputed whether African American history merited recognition. Yet in an era of fake news and alternative facts, Black History Month encourages Americans to face up to hard truths.
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The Democrats’ False Choice
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Setting the Record Straight on Trump’s Black Unemployment Boast
Feb 01, 2018A Q&A with economist Steven Pitts on why Trump can’t take credit for the low figures
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