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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Will Economic Populism Win Back the Midwest for Democrats?
Jul 26, 2014The decline of industrial unions and significant demographic changes portend challenging times for the region’s Democrats.
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Hillary for Liberals: A Conversation With Walter Shapiro
Jul 23, 2014"As a campaigner, Hillary can do a shot and a beer better than Barack Obama can," Shapiro says. So there's that.
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There Is No Border Crisis: There Are Frightened Children, Fleeing Death
Jul 22, 2014America’s response to child refugees from Central America is downright shameful.
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How Two Centrist Dems May Herald a Progressive Future for Georgia
Jul 21, 2014As Republicans head to the polls to select a U.S. Senate candidate who will almost certainly hail from the right, Michelle Nunn and Jason Carter--daughter of Senator Sam and grandson of President Jimmy--take the middle path on a road destined to veer left.
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Go Ahead, Bash My City: I Can Take It
Jul 18, 2014Here's the real Cleveland joke: the utter dissonance of the GOP celebrating its platform of inequality in this working-class, majority-black, decidedly Blue city, where Republican attempts to suppress minority votes pose a regular problem.
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Why Democrats Need to Take Sides in America's Class War
Jul 17, 2014Straddling class divisions is so last century. There's a new base in town, and it includes a lot of people who used to be middle-class but aren't anymore.
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This Is What Happened When I Took the MTA Bus to Pick Up Food Stamps
Jul 16, 2014A response to a much-chattered-about article by an upper-middle-class white woman who was appalled to find herself judged when she applied for food stamps.
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Justice Samuel Alito's Deep Roots in the American Right
Jul 10, 2014He's the most pro-corporate jurist on the Supreme Court. So decisions that grant companies religious rights or take aim at labor unions come quite naturally to him.
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Courtroom Drama: Voting Rights Paid for in Blood Under Siege in North Carolina
Jul 09, 2014“It was, bar none, the worst legislative process I’ve ever been through,” Rep. Rick Glazier told the U.S. District Court.
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Without Economic and Educational Justice, There Is No Racial Justice
Jul 03, 2014A half-century after Freedom Summer, African Americans continue to face severe barriers not just to voting, but also to economic security.
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Shifting Tactics, Moral Monday Movement Launches a New Freedom Summer
Jul 03, 2014Fifty years after the murders of Schwerner, Chaney and Goodman, North Carolina activists move from civil disobedience to big voter mobilization push.
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Listen to Harold Meyerson Analyze the Supreme Court's Big Anti-Union Decision on 'To the Point'
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Supreme Court Rules Disadvantaged Workers Should Be Disadvantaged Some More
Jun 30, 2014The decision in Harris v. Quinn—written by the Court’s leading union-hater, Justice Samuel Alito—appears designed to cripple unions by creating incentives for "free riders."
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Dear Thom Tillis: How Long Does It Take For a Black Person to Become a Traditional North Carolinian?
Jun 21, 2014An open letter to the Speaker of the North Carolina House of Representatives, who is currently running for U.S. Senate, is prompted by his comments about the Republican Party's demographics.
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Photo Essay: Moral Mondays' Potent Symbols and Creative Actions
Jun 13, 2014So far in the 2014 North Carolina legislative session, lawmakers have witnessed weekly actions: a silent protest, a sit-in in the Speaker's office, and prayerful bread-breaking by the activists of the Moral Monday movement, chronicled here in a photo essay.
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