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Baldwin’s Lonely Country

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

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Race

Race

To Remake the World: Slavery, Racial Capitalism, and Justice

What if we use the history of slavery as a standpoint from which to rethink our notion of justice today?

Walter Johnson

Race

Trump’s Call For Dystopian Policing

Stop-and-frisk and broken-windows policing have ravaged black communities, treating everyone as criminals, while failing to make cities any safer. Now Trump wants to revive them.

Victor Ray

Law & Justice, Race

How the Government Built a Trap for Black Youth

Throughout the twentieth century, bipartisan consensus was that black youth were latent criminals in need of abundant policing.

Kelly Lytle Hernández

Law & Justice, Race

Mass. High Court Says Black Fears Matter

A Massachusetts high court ruling acknowledges that black men aren’t wrong for wanting to run from police.

Simon Waxman

Politics, Race

Black Nationalism and Liberation

Integration doesn’t guarantee equality or freedom.

Garrett Felber

Politics, Race

What Does Black Lives Matter Want?

The ideas in the movement’s new manifesto would enrich our practice of democracy.

Robin D. G. Kelley

Literature & Culture, Politics

White Leghorns

On the cruelties the South doles out to animals, children, and black folks.

Colin Dayan

Law & Justice, Race

Paying for Punishment

Debt still sends many people—especially black people—to jail.

Donna Murch

Law & Justice, Politics

Racial Violence in Black and White

Images of police violence against African Americans have a radical heritage.

Benjamin Balthaser

Global Justice, Politics

Who’s to Blame in South Sudan?

The country needs a political rebirth.

Mahmood Mamdani

Race

Lynching by Any Other Name

Prosecutors are corrupting the intent of lynching laws.

Christopher Lebron

Class & Inequality, Race

From “War on Crime” to War on the Black Community

The enduring impact of President Johnson’s Crime Commission.

Elizabeth Hinton

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