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February 11, 2025
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Pete Hegseth Torched for “F**king Racist” Move on Recruitment
Military leaders warned that Hegseth’s decision could seriously hurt the Army.
February 10, 2025
Malcolm Ferguson
MAGA Has Total Meltdown Over Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl Halftime Show
The right is freaking out over a Super Bowl halftime show rife with American imagery.
January 30, 2025
Malcolm Ferguson
RFK Jr. Struggles to Explain Past Quote on Vaccines for Black People
Donald Trump’s pick for health secretary had a particularly tough confirmation hearing—thanks to his own comments.
January 24, 2025
Malcolm Ferguson
MLK’s Family Has One Request After Trump Order on Assassination Files
Martin Luther King Jr.’s family has responded to Donald Trump after he moved to declassify government files on the civil rights leader’s assassination.
January 23, 2025
Hafiz Rashid
Trump’s Repulsive Pardon of Two Police Officers Who Killed a Black Man
These may be the most shocking pardons not on the January 6 list.
December 28, 2024
Chantal James
My Gun Culture Is Not Your Gun Culture
In Black Southern life, guns have been a sign of readiness against constant threats.
December 21, 2020
Magazine
Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw
The Unacceptable Costs of Appeasing MAGA Nation
Why we can’t afford to make peace with white supremacists
November 25, 2020
Magazine
Gaiutra Bahadur
Is America Trapped in a Caste System?
Isabel Wilkerson compares American racism to structures of oppression in India and Nazi Germany.
November 6, 2020
Magazine
Jennifer Wilson
Yaa Gyasi Versus the Identity Trap
In “Transcendent Kingdom,” a young Black woman refuses to be defined by other people’s narratives.
September 22, 2020
Magazine
Adolph Reed Jr.
TV Race Fables and the Privilege of a Raging Class
“The Cosby Show,” “#blackAF,” and the misleading fixation on the “racial wealth gap”
October 24, 2019
Magazine
Scott W. Stern
The Making of a White Supremacist Myth
Why the far-right pushes the lie that black Americans fought as Confederate soldiers
September 2, 2014
Danny Vinik
Ted Cruz Needs to Keep His Dad Away From His (Potential) Campaign
Rafael Cruz thinks the "average black" doesn't understand the minimum wage
March 6, 1995
Leon Wieseltier
All and Nothing at All
The unreal world of Cornel West
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