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April 20, 2021
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Melissa Gira Grant
Derek Chauvin Was Not an Aberration
State prosecutors argued, and a jury agreed, that George Floyd’s death was outside the boundaries of good policing. But the truth was more ambiguous, and tellingly so.
February 10, 2021
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Melissa Gira Grant
A Covid Uprising in America’s Jails
A protest in St. Louis exposed the deadly risks incarcerated people in the U.S. have faced for a year. Vaccine delays have only heightened those tensions.
August 25, 2020
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Jo Livingstone
The Whitney Museum’s Careless Attempt to Curate a Summer of Black Uprising
The self-appointed guardians of America’s visual heritage are at it again.
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