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Class & Inequality, Race

Why Coretta Scott King Fought for a Job Guarantee

Coretta Scott King saw economic precarity as not just a side effect of racial subjugation, but as central to its functioning.

David Stein

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Race

Politics, Race

Black Nationalism and Liberation

Integration doesn’t guarantee equality or freedom.

Garrett Felber

Politics, Race

What Does Black Lives Matter Want?

The ideas in the movement’s new manifesto would enrich our practice of democracy.

Robin D. G. Kelley

Literature & Culture, Politics

White Leghorns

On the cruelties the South doles out to animals, children, and black folks.

Colin Dayan

Law & Justice, Race

Paying for Punishment

Debt still sends many people—especially black people—to jail.

Donna Murch

Law & Justice, Politics

Racial Violence in Black and White

Images of police violence against African Americans have a radical heritage.

Benjamin Balthaser

Global Justice, Politics

Who’s to Blame in South Sudan?

The country needs a political rebirth.

Mahmood Mamdani

Race

Lynching by Any Other Name

Prosecutors are corrupting the intent of lynching laws.

Christopher Lebron

Class & Inequality, Race

From “War on Crime” to War on the Black Community

The enduring impact of President Johnson’s Crime Commission.

Elizabeth Hinton

Class & Inequality, Race

Reversal of Fortune

Cities are now playgrounds for the rich, with the poor forced into suburbs.

Claude S. Fischer

Global Justice, Politics

Writing Human Rights and Getting It Wrong

The West likes morality plays with clear heroes and villains, in which we play the role of savior.

Alex de Waal

Class & Inequality, Race

What the Kerner Report Got Wrong about Policing

Bad police were not simply a symptom of racism. They were often its agents.

Daniel Geary

Race

What Good Is History for African Americans?

To be useful, history has to help us think about who we should become as a nation.

Melvin Rogers

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