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Where Do We Go From Here: A Fundraiser for Black Lives

A transcript of our panel discussion on the Black Lives Matter movement. 

Elizabeth Hinton, Robin D. G. Kelley, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Brandon M. Terry, Cornel West

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Law & Justice, Race

Police Manipulate Freddie Gray Story Through Leak

One of the many disturbing dimensions of Freddie Gray’s death after riding in a Baltimore Police van is how little the public knows about the circumstances.

Simon Waxman

Arts in Society, Race

"Purity" and the "Avant-Garde"

I am sick of the term “avant-garde.”

John Yau

Race

Protesting Too Much

The Trouble with Black Power Revisionism

Randall L. Kennedy

Arts in Society, Race

Against Type

Broad City is a platonic “romance between two friends” who happen to be women.

Lucy McKeon

Arts in Society, Race

Response to Race and the Poetic Avant-Garde

The aestheticization of the term avant-garde is a refusal to think what the alienation of human being in the modern era was made of.

David Marriott

Arts in Society, Race

Race and the Poetic Avant-Garde

“The assumption remains, however unexamined, that ‘avant-garde’ poetry is not ‘black’ and that ‘black’ poetry, however singular its ‘voice,’ is not ‘formally innovative.’

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Arts in Society, Race

From Jim-Crow to "Color-Blind" Poetics

Race and the so-called avant-garde.

Dorothy Wang

Gender & Sexuality, Politics

Still Missing: Etan Patz—and Others

During the exhaustive search for Etan, black children were disappearing in Atlanta.

Judith Levine

Law & Justice, Race

Why We Tolerate Biased Policing

Tragically, it may be unrealistic to expect Americans—including police—to ignore race.

Richard T. Ford

Class & Inequality, Race

South Africa's 99 Percent

The passage of the Group Areas Act in 1950 brought forceful expulsion and sequestration to all areas of the country.

Jessica Pothering

Law & Justice, Race

Americans Love King Because They Don't Understand Him

We should celebrate the actual King and his radicalism rather than the inoffensive persona created to serve the status quo.

Simon Waxman

Gender & Sexuality, Politics

Pat Lynch's Deadly Machismo

In this drama of race and sexuality, the NYPD could learn something from Mayor de Blasio.

Judith Levine

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