LaNitra Walker

A new exhibition of the art of Harlem Renaissance-era painter Aaron Douglas shows his commitment to using his work to promote economic and racial equality.

Hurricane Katrina was one of the most devastating and costly natural disasters ever in the United States. It left 80 percent of New Orleans under water. In his new book, historian Douglas Brinkley uses oral histories from Katrina survivors and rescuers and Gulf Coast residents to record the dramatic events that occurred during the eight […]

In 1998, Dr. Barnett Slepian was shot by a sniper’s bullet while standing in his kitchen in Amherst, New York, a quiet suburb of Buffalo. Dr. Slepian was one of only a few doctors who performed abortions in Buffalo. The man who killed him, James Kopp, was an anti-abortion activist known for his religious fundamentalism […]

In 1998, Dr. Barnett Slepian was shot by a sniper’s bullet while standing in his kitchen in Amherst, New York, a quiet suburb of Buffalo. Dr. Slepian was one of only a few doctors who performed abortions in Buffalo. The man who killed him, James Kopp, was an anti-abortion activist known for his religious fundamentalism […]

If you’ve driven through Charlottesville, Virginia, before, you may not have noticed a plain, gray state historical marker commemorating Buck v. Bell, the 1927 Supreme Court case that upheld Virginia’s forced sterilization law. That’s because the state’s role as a national leader in performing thousands of unauthorized sterilizations is a controversial and shameful chapter in […]

Coretta Scott King’s death on Jan. 31 has reminded us how far we’ve come since she and her husband, the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. first met in the 1950s, and how far we still have to go before we can say that their goals of eliminating racial and social injustice have been realized. […]

Lately, there’s been a lot of talk about what it means to be a feminist. More specifically, American women are trying to find new and better ways to strike a balance between careers and motherhood at a time when more women are wondering whether the glass ceilings that kept their mothers in the kitchen and […]

While researching Innocents Lost: When Child Soldiers Go to War, Jimmie Briggs, a former Life magazine reporter, dodged bullets in Colombia, spoke with children who’d committed acts of genocide in Rwanda, and survived an ambush of his convoy in Uganda to learn about child kidnappings there. In a bustling Union Station café in Washington, D.C, […]

Author Pietra Rivoli discusses The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy: An Economist Examines the Markets, Power, and Politics of World Trade, in a Georgetown University office cluttered with piles of economics texts and student papers, as well as the globetrotting T-shirt that inspired the book. Could you talk about what globalization means […]