To be safe: Live openly among Black folks, wander around by yourself, and take public transport everywhere.
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Posted inVideos
The Prospect Weekly Roundup: The Looming Disaster of the Big Beautiful Bill
On our live show, Ryan Cooper and Whitney Wimbish look at the GOP reconciliation bill.
Posted inPolitics
Trump’s Flagrant Racism
It’s the flip side of Trump’s DEI for incompetent white people.
Posted inTAP
Trump Finds a Set of Refugees He Welcomes
Today on TAP: While expelling nonwhite refugees here legally, he invites in white South Africans who say they don’t want to come.
Posted inAmerica and the World
A One-State Solution Could Work in Israel
But the end of South African apartheid demonstrates it would take an Israeli commitment to peace that is nowhere in evidence.
Posted inLaw and Justice
The Rise of the Private Police
In South Africa, private security companies have eclipsed the police force, threatening the state’s democratic authority and replicating apartheid-era racial inequality. Is the U.S. next?
Posted inBooks, Arts and Culture
How ‘Roots’ Reverberated in Africa
Roots revolutionized how Americans viewed and talked about black history. But its influence extended across the Atlantic, especially to West Africa and apartheid South Africa.