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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

Arts in Society, Class & Inequality

The End of Nothing

Segregation Is Still a Problem in the United States

Ryan D. Enos

Forum

The Future of Black Politics

Black movements have historically been at the forefront of progressive change. But with black civil society in retreat, how can we rebuild black politics?

Michael C. Dawson

Global Justice, Politics

State of the Nation: The Brown Majority

Most of the demographic change in America today comes not from waves of new immigration, but from the echoes of past migration.

Stephen Ansolabehere

Race

A World Apart

As the United States has grown more diverse, it has moved from being “two societies, one black, one white,” in the words of the famous Kerner Commission, to two societies, white and nonwhite.

Ryan D. Enos

Class & Inequality, Race

Return to Haiti

I went back to Haiti on August 15, a year and a half after the earthquake. The place where I had lived on and off since the summer of 1970 was unrecognizable. But the politics were familiar.

Colin Dayan

Class & Inequality, Politics

Wronged Without Recourse

Supreme Court Precedent Sets Back Worker Rights

Jessica Garrick, Andrew Schrank

Forum

Leadership, Free to Lead

The article is edited from the transcript of a speech that Gov. Roemer gave at the Edmond J. Safra

Gov. Charles “Buddy” Roemer

Arts in Society, Race

How to Write About Africa

At the offices of Kwani — a literary agitator without peer. 

Anna Clark

Global Justice, Politics

Republicans’ 2012 Electoral Problem

Hispanics are developing stronger attachments to the Democrats.

Stephen Ansolabehere

Class & Inequality, Global Justice

Civil Rights Rollback

The Significance of Walmart v. Dukes

David Freeman Engstrom

Class & Inequality, Global Justice

Strongly Worded Dissents

A Conversation

Joshua Cohen, Glenn C. Loury

Global Justice, Politics

Qaddafi’s Dream

The man who imagines himself king of kings.

Robert P. Baird

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