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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We Let Bill Cosby Into Our Homes, So He Owes Us an Explanation
Nov 20, 2014America's once-favorite TV dad needs to take his own advice.
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Hillary Clinton's "Connection" to White Voters: What Could It Possibly Be?
Nov 18, 2014Let's try to be honest about what we're talking about here.
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How Democrats Can Win Back the White Working Class and Increase Turnout Among Blacks and Latinos
Nov 17, 2014Do more for minorities and the poor, and you presumably risk driving social conservatives even further into the arms of Republicans. But ignore the needs of those who need more government activism and the Democratic base fails to turn out.
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Report: South Urgently Needs an 'Infrastructure of Opportunity'
Nov 16, 2014At the root of the uncertainty lies a pervasive doubt: whether the South can sustain the American Dream of each generation moving up and doing better than previous generations.
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Event Livefeed: The Making of Ferguson with Sherrilyn Ifill and Richard Rothstein
Nov 12, 2014The NAACP Legal Defense Fund and the Economic Policy Institute host a forum to examine the federal, state, and local policies that led to the events in Ferguson with Prospect author Richard Rothstein.
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Election 2014: Surge or Theft?
Nov 11, 2014How dark money and voter disenfranchisement combined in a toxic brew that resulted in the lowest voter turnout in more than 70 years, hampering whatever chance Democrats had to win.
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Watch Party Dispatch: At Howard University, Mentors Challenge Young Activists' Ideas of Victory
Nov 05, 2014For the African-American community, given all the obstacles, an uptick in turnout can be a victory in and of itself.
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Watch Party Dispatch: Marijuana Legalization Activists Celebrate in D.C.
Nov 05, 2014For many, this is the first midterm election they’ve voted in. And Initiative 71, which went on to pass with nearly 70 percent of the vote, is the reason.
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Watch Party Dispatch: Poets and Pols Gather For Some Pointed Words
Nov 05, 2014In which Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton mingles with constituents and the verse is a bit searing.
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Meet the Working Families Party, Whose Ballot Line is in Play in New York
Nov 04, 2014The WFP has amassed the power to turn progressive ideas into law. But a controversial attempt to work a deal with incumbent New York Governor Cuomo has put its ballot line at stake.
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GOP's Neo-Confederate Theocrat Wins Council Seat in One of Richest U.S. Counties
Nov 03, 2014Voters were looking for something new when they elected Michael Peroutka to run as a Republican for a seat on Maryland's Anne Arundel County Council. What they got was something very old—like ante bellum kind of old.
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Will Black Millennials, Faced With Voting Restrictions, Turn Out On Election Day?
Nov 03, 2014North Carolina is closing college polling places. Texas has a forbidding ID law. Ohio curtailed early voting. For African-American students, the obstacles are mounting.
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Seahawks' Russell Wilson Controversy Shows Dangers of Racial Authenticity Tests
Nov 01, 2014The 'are you black enough?' question is perilously close to the racist one-drop rule of yore—whether called by blacks or whites.
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After Ferguson, 'Dear White People' Arrives Right On Time
Oct 28, 2014Then again, any time would have been right. Systemic white privilege and the language of racism is an American tradition as old as the republic.
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SCOTUS to Texas: Go Forth and Discriminate Against Your Citizens Starting Monday
Oct 21, 2014Even though a federal judge ruled Texas's new voting law to be an unconstitutional poll tax, the high court said it must remain in effect for the coming midterm elections.
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