A century after D.W. Griffith’s artful abomination, Selma succeeds by telling the true story of everyday people who come together to achieve the improbable.
Race & Ethnicity
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How Mindfulness Can Transform Movements for Racial Justice and Equality
While Black History Month is rightly steeped in regard for the struggles and triumphs of the past, consciousness in the present is what will move us forward through the other 11 months of the year.
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The Great Party Switch
From 1968 through 1992, Republicans tended to control the White House. Since then, they’ve more frequently controlled Congress, which has moved them even more to the right.
Posted inCivil Rights in America
Not Just Kumbaya: Multiracial Coalitions Yield Pragmatic Results for the Common Good
New research suggests that simple reminders of historic and contemporary discrimination can galvanize cross-racial coalition-building. And that’s in everybody’s interest.
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A Talent for Storytelling
Rick Perlstein tells how Reagan imagined his way into the American psyche.
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Beyoncé Misses the Point of What Gospel Music Means to Black Americans
The selection of Queen Bey to deliver a song identified with Mahalia Jackson ignored the importance of spiritual conveyance in the music that moved a people to action.
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Photo Essay: Vigil for Slain Chapel Hill Muslim Students
While the media lit up with arguments over whether or not Craig Hicks’s execution-style killing of three young Arabs was a hate crime, the UNC community gathered to commemorate the lives of the slain.
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Chapel Hill Murders Are About More Than a Parking Dispute
Fights over space—whether in subways or suburban neighborhoods—are more often contests about privilege.
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Will House Whip Scalise Disavow David Duke’s Latest Claim About Him?
The white nationalist and former Klansman says the House Republican “agreed with all my ideas.”
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Index: The 1 Percent Cleans Up in Florida and the South
Since 2009, Florida’s elite captured all of the state’s income growth—and then some.
