“The Water Dancer” comes out of a powerful examination of the legacies of slavery today.

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These polls keep getting reported as if this weren't a fatal methodological flaw.

Why did a white poet see the success of writers of color as a signal of his own demise?

The Nobel laureate, who died this week, made the world bigger for all of us.

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In a rebuttal to Mitch McConnell—and possibly Joe Biden—Ta-Nehisi Coates helped House Democrats start a conversation on slavery, racism, and reparations.

A new book about the medieval holy wars exposes a crisis in the field of history.

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They accuse Democrats of anti-Semitism while refusing to acknowledge a rise in white supremacist violence under Trump.

His sophomore effort, featuring a rampaging gang of doppelgängers, radically expands the themes of his film debut "Get Out."

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The FDA's new proposal stirs up an old, complicated debate.

Republican attempts to exclude African Americans from the polls echoes efforts by Southern whites that enabled the Jim Crow era.

Students who back the president are afraid to speak up. Professors should encourage them to break their silence.

A proposal to integrate New York City’s top public high schools would be a boon to black and Latinx students—and a disaster for Asians.

Whether in France or in the United States, school reform alone can't fix racism and poverty. But Emanuel Macron seems to think otherwise.

A new documentary tells the story of cops who have blown the whistle on the NYPD's predatory tactics.