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Baldwin’s Lonely Country

Fifty years ago, when Martin Luther King, Jr., was assassinated, a devastated James Baldwin made a final attempt to reconcile the generational divide between the civil rights movement and Black Power.

Ed Pavlić

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Race

Philosophy & Religion, Race

A Love Supreme

Remembering James H. Cone.

Cornel West

Race

The Forgotten Baldwin

James Baldwin’s book about the Atlanta child murders speaks best to the era of Black Lives Matter.

Joseph Vogel

Gender & Sexuality, Race

Guns in the Family

A childhood steeped in guns shows that toxic masculinity and racism are at the heart of U.S. gun culture.

Walter Johnson

Podcast, Race

Brother Martin Was a Blues Man

Cornel West on Martin Luther King, Jr., hope, and the future of activism.

Cornel West

Class & Inequality, Race

The Almost Inevitable Failure of Justice

The persistence of black poverty has become a permanent feature of U.S. democracy. We need an expanded political imagination to dismantle it.

Thad Williamson

Race

‘Black Panther’ Is Not the Movie We Deserve

Black Panther, a movie unique for its black star power, depends on a shocking devaluation of black American men.

Christopher Lebron

Race

Against National Security Citizenship

Support for the U.S. military has long been seen as a crucial way for black Americans and immigrants to show that they “belong.”

Aziz Rana

Race

The Cost of Canonizing MLK

A video interview with Brandon Terry.

Brandon M. Terry

Race

A Political Philosophy of Self-Defense

Self-defense is not merely an individual right, it is collective political resistance.

Chad Kautzer

Race

MLK Now

Fifty years after the death of Martin Luther King, Jr., canonization has prevented a reckoning with the substance of King’s intellectual, ethical, and political commitments.

Brandon M. Terry

Race

Coates and West in Jackson

America loves pitting black intellectuals against each other, but today's activists need both Coates and West.

Robin D. G. Kelley

Race, Reading Lists

Our Top Stories on Race in 2017

In 2017, racism and xenophobia have played major roles in U.S. politics. As the year draws to a close, we present our top stories about race, immigration, and the dangerous ideology of white nationalism, from myths about Appalachia to racial capitalism to regimes of deportation.

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