A Political and Literary Forum
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
Fifty years after the death of Martin Luther King, Jr., canonization has prevented a reckoning with the substance of King’s intellectual, ethical, and political commitments.
Brandon M. Terry
America loves pitting black intellectuals against each other, but today's activists need both Coates and West.
Robin D. G. Kelley
In 2017, racism and xenophobia have played major roles in U.S. politics. As the year draws to a close, we present our top stories about race, immigration, and the dangerous ideology of white nationalism, from myths about Appalachia to racial capitalism to regimes of deportation.
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Nixon’s embrace of “black capitalism” was a canny move that ultimately decimated the black community and turned the wealth gap into a wealth chasm.
Mehrsa Baradaran
We have to do much more than fight back, we have to fight for the world that could liberate and sustain us all when Trump is gone.
J. D. Vance's Hillbilly Elegy has been held up as a guidebook for understanding the 2016 election, but his logic is rooted in an enduring and dangerous myth about race in Appalachia.
Elizabeth Catte
Ta-Nehisi Coates’s latest book is his clearest expression yet of political fatalism. But black activism has always believed in the possibility of change.
Melvin Rogers
Two new books, including National Book Award nominee ‘Locking Up Our Own,’ address major blind spots about the causes of America’s carceral failure.
Vesla M. Weaver
While the United States has expanded its borders of inclusion over time, the borders of whiteness have never fallen. Only a robust black public sphere can change that.
Khalil Gibran Muhammad
Focusing only on Confederate monuments misses that racism is memorialized everywhere.
Jonathan Beecher Field
Black feminism and the 2 Live Crew.
Kimberlé W. Crenshaw
Coretta Scott King saw economic precarity as not just a side effect of racial subjugation, but as central to its functioning.
David Stein
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