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December 21, 2020
MagazineKimberlé Williams Crenshaw
The Unacceptable Costs of Appeasing MAGA Nation
Why we can’t afford to make peace with white supremacists
November 25, 2020
MagazineGaiutra 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
MagazineJennifer 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
MagazineAdolph 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
MagazineScott 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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