A Political and Literary Forum
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
James Baldwin’s book about the Atlanta child murders speaks best to the era of Black Lives Matter.
Joseph Vogel
A childhood steeped in guns shows that toxic masculinity and racism are at the heart of U.S. gun culture.
Walter Johnson
Cornel West on Martin Luther King, Jr., hope, and the future of activism.
Cornel West
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
Black Panther, a movie unique for its black star power, depends on a shocking devaluation of black American men.
Christopher Lebron
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
A video interview with Brandon Terry.
Brandon M. Terry
Self-defense is not merely an individual right, it is collective political resistance.
Chad Kautzer
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.
America loves pitting black intellectuals against each other, but today's activists need both Coates and West.
Robin D. G. Kelley
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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Nixon’s embrace of “black capitalism” was a canny move that ultimately decimated the black community and turned the wealth gap into a wealth chasm.
Mehrsa Baradaran
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