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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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Politics, Race

State of the Nation: Amazing Race

How post-racial was Obama’s victory?

Stephen Ansolabehere, Charles Stewart III

Politics, Race

The Call of the Tribe

What role should “identity” play in our politics and in our lives?

Glenn C. Loury

Law & Justice, Race

Guarded Hope

Lessons from the history of the prison boom.

Robert Perkinson

Law & Justice, Race

Reentry

Reversing mass imprisonment.

Bruce Western

Law & Justice, Race

What We Owe to Incarcerated Fathers

More than 1.5 million children currently have a parent in prison; for 94 percent of these children, that parent is the father.

Mary Fainsod Katzenstein, Mary Lyndon Shanley

Arts in Society, Class & Inequality

Justify the enemy

Becoming human in South Africa.

Zakes Mda

Class & Inequality, Race

Ending Urban Poverty: Neighborhood Matters

Do housing vouchers work?

Stefanie DeLuca

Class & Inequality, Race

Ending Urban Poverty: Introduction

What if we stop thinking in terms of place and start thinking about families or individuals?

Dalton Conley

Class & Inequality, Race

Ending Urban Poverty: The Inherited Ghetto

Understanding the persistence of racial inequality.

Patrick Sharkey

Class & Inequality, Global Justice

Within Reach of the State

Although both the victims and the perpetrators of human rights violations on African soil have been Africans, the pursuit of justice has been conducted largely by international institutions, and not Africans themselves.

Owen Fiss

Global Justice, Law & Justice

Slave Trade on Trial

Lessons of a great human rights–law success.

Jenny S. Martinez

Class & Inequality, Law & Justice

Why Are So Many Americans in Prison?

Race and the transformation of criminal justice.

Glenn C. Loury

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