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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Scalise Scandal Rooted in Secret Societies' Hold on Paths to Power -- Through Violence
Jan 06, 2015From campus rape to the House whip's 'need' to address white supremacists, it's starkly clear that American roots of gender, race and sexual violence run deep. So what are we going to do about it?
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The True Cost of Teach For America's Impact on Urban Schools
Jan 05, 2015Why are school districts paying millions in "finder's fees" to an organization that places people without education degrees to teach in urban schools—even where applications from veteran teachers abound?
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Are Jews Doomed to Lose the War on Jewish Christmas?
Dec 24, 2014Reports from the battlefied are not encouraging.
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Meet the Congressional Mouthpieces of the Anti-Cuba Lobby
Dec 18, 2014They hail from both parties, but they have one thing in common: something called the U.S. Cuba-Democracy PAC.
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How Much Did Black-White Wealth Gap Widen During the Great Recession?
Dec 17, 2014A lot, says a new study from the Pew Research Center.
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Harrowing Tales of the Wrongly Deported: U.S. Border Patrol Flouts the Law and Destroys Lives
Dec 12, 2014There are more than 40,000 CBP officers authorized to act like judges but without legal training. The new executive order does not change this.
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Movements for Racial Justice and Economic Justice Could Converge to Form a Powerhouse for Change
Dec 10, 2014What sort of policies—what sort of majority support in the country—can we imagine that will fix what is broken?
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We Can't Forget: Black Women Are Targeted, Too
Dec 05, 2014"It’s not just the brothers dying; I’m at risk too," Joanne says. "I could be the next person.”
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'All I Want For Christmas Is Justice!' A Protester's Dispatch
Dec 05, 2014This is what the new civil rights movement looks like.
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Quote of the Day: 'When Cops Are Scared'
Dec 05, 2014Fear of blacks by whites can be deadly.
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#Blacklivesmatter Till They Don't: Slavery's Lasting Legacy
Dec 05, 2014The historical value of black life and the casual killing of Eric Garner.
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10 Ways the System Is Rigged Against Justice for People Wrongly Killed by Cops
Dec 04, 2014Why is the legal system so biased against holding abusive officers accountable?
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Nationwide Ferguson Protests Don't Halt For the Holidays
Dec 01, 2014This Thanksgiving week, cities from Boston to Oakland proved that America is in a new era of civil rights.
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How Obama Boxed In Republicans With His Immigration Order
Dec 01, 2014We know they oppose it now, but revoking it in 2017 will be a lot more complicated.
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To Save the Right to Choose Nationwide, Reproductive Justice Advocates Need a Southern Strategy
Nov 30, 2014A new amendment to Tennessee's Constitution lays a framework for ending abortion rights. If allowed to stand, women and girls in poor communities will suffer the most.
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