Race & Ethnicity
Editors' Picks
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Black America's Promised Land: Why I Am Still a Racial Optimist
Nov 10, 2014Hope and pessimism have defined two traditions of American thinking about race. Fully acknowledging recent setbacks, the author makes the case for the tradition of hope.
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The Making of Ferguson: How Decades of Hostile Policy Created a Powder Keg
Oct 13, 2014Long before the shooting of Michael Brown, official racial-isolation policies primed Ferguson for this summer’s events.
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Last Day of a Young Black Man
Jul 23, 2013Fruitvale Station's intimate portrait of Oscar Grant promises better days ahead for black film.
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Trayvon Martin, Blackness, and America's Fear of Crime
Jul 16, 2013Further thoughts on pathology and "black on black" crime.
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Race or Class? The Future of Affirmative Action on the College Campus
Jun 22, 2014Focusing college-student recruitment on poor neighborhoods can overlook middle-class African Americans entitled to affirmative action.
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How the American South Drives the Low-Wage Economy
Jul 06, 2015Just as in the 1850s (with the Dred Scott decision and the Fugitive Slave Act), the Southern labor system (with low pay and no unions) is wending its way north.
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Immigration and America's Urban Revival
Jul 07, 2015The evidence favors a hypothesis many Americans reject: Immigration has helped reduce crime and revitalize city economies.
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Urban Policing, Without Brutality
Jul 20, 2015Cincinnati has emerged as a role model of policing reform—but even the best-in-show has a long way to go.
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Why There Are No Children Here: A Mother's Day Lament
May 08, 2015I let my well-founded fears of medical abandonment and loss of free agency keep me from being a mother. After all, I'm a black woman. That's too often how it goes for us.
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A New Approach to Policing Focuses on Strengthening Communities
May 06, 2015Without progressive solutions to the tension between law enforcement and people of color, every city is one incident away from being the next Baltimore.
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The West's Regard for Charlie Hedbo Victims Not Extended to African Targets of Extremist Violence
May 04, 2015Massacres in Nigeria and Garissa, Kenya, did not draw nearly as much worldwide attention or grief as Charlie Hebdo. What does that say about how we value African lives?
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Dispatch From Baltimore: A Photo Essay
Apr 30, 2015Images from the unrest in Baltimore following the death of Freddie Gray
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How Government Policies Cemented the Racism that Reigns in Baltimore
Apr 29, 2015A century of federal, state, and local policies have quarantined Charm City’s black population in isolated slums.
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In Baltimore, Police Thuggery Is the Real Violence Problem
Apr 28, 2015An unarmed black person is six times more likely to be killed by police than is a white person who carries a weapon.
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Pity the Purist in the GOP Primaries (A Tear for Bobby Jindal)
Apr 27, 2015To win the presidential election will require selective dissents and little blasphemies.
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How Progressive Policies Can Lead to a Democratic Majority
Apr 24, 2015The new American electorate could offer a durable majority--if Democrats address economic needs with progressive policies, not centrist ones.
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How the Decline of Southern White Evangelicals Fuels the Passage of 'Religious Freedom' Laws
Apr 21, 2015They've been the driving force behind anti-LGBT legislation. But now their numbers are falling off.
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Calls From Home
Apr 16, 2015In a region dominated by coal companies and privatized prisons, activist Amelia Kirby charts a new path for her community.
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Janet Mock's Brilliant Cultural Insurgency
Apr 13, 2015As perhaps the most visible trans woman in the public eye, being herself—and having fun doing it—is the feminist TV journalist's wildly effective form of activism.
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Today's GOP: The Party of Jefferson Davis -- Not Lincoln
Apr 10, 2015If you think the Civil War is over, think again.
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Brewing Human Rights Crisis in Baltimore as City Threatens Mass Water Shutoffs
Apr 08, 2015Residents warn move is part of global trend towards the 'commodification of our basic needs.'
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Raising Wages From the Bottom Up
Apr 06, 2015Three ways city and state governments can make the difference.
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Raising Wages From the Bottom Up
Apr 06, 2015Three ways city and state governments can make the difference.
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