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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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Race

Class & Inequality, Race

Discrimination and Hiring

From job-seeking to medical treatment, many decision-makers decide with a racial tilt (consciously or not).

Claude S. Fischer

Forum

Ferguson Won't Change Anything. What Will?

Michael Brown shouldn't be a poster child for social justice movements.

Glenn C. Loury

Law & Justice, Race

Righteous Indignation in Ferguson

In Ferguson, white violence, exclusively, is justified.

Simon Waxman

Law & Justice, Race

Six Shots in Michael Brown

The judicial process cannot account for what matters most: the policies and biases that enable white men to claim justification in the murder of black men.

Simon Waxman

Race

It's the 50th Anniversary of the Civil Rights Act—Race Still Matters

Racism still simmers in the U.S.

Claude S. Fischer

Arts in Society, Race

What Is Political Correctness?

The project of decontextualizing language.

Simon Waxman

Race, Science & Nature

Don't Trouble Yourself

Nicholas Wade's A Troublesome Inheritance is scientifically dubious and blind to its racist implications.

Philip N. Cohen

Arts in Society, Politics

Imperial Methods

Peter Matthiessen's Orientalism.

Joel Whitney

Class & Inequality, Global Justice

Democracy in South Africa

After twenty years of electoral dominance by the African National Congress, are South African politics finally becoming competitive?

Tim Cohen

Gender & Sexuality, Race

Which Radical Ideas Come True?

Two radical notions in the early 1970s, having a black president and permitting homosexual marriage, have pretty much come to pass.

Claude S. Fischer

Arts in Society, Race

Gangsta Folk

If gangsta rap lyrics are evidence of criminality, what are we to make of gruesome murders depicted in many folk and country songs?

Simon Waxman

Arts in Society, Race

Hilton Als's Lonely Black Man

What happens when identity returns to crumble our defenses.

Tobi Haslett

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