The Philadelphia Eagles and Kendrick Lamar’s collective of geniuses made this the Super Bowl we needed. This year’s Super Bowl in New Orleans could have been a fascist Mardi Gras. Then, the unexpected....
This book is the story of Daniel Murray, the assistant librarian of the Library of Congress from 1881-1922, and of the milieu and fate of the Reconstruction-era African American government workers and officials in Washington, DC.
Referencing DEI is the new rightwing abstraction deployed by Republicans to conceal their anti-Black racism
Donald Trump's bizarre, fact-free threat against South Africa did not just arise in the back of his head last week. It is the initiative of alt-right ex-South Africans in America and like-minded people here (in South Africa) who are urging them on.
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In The Unseen Truth, Sarah Lewis examines how an erroneous 18th-century story about the “Caucasian race” led to a centuries of prejudice and misapprehension.
What Benedict Anderson’s classic account of nationalism’s origins misses about today’s world.
These exploitative dynamics are rooted in slavery and are particularly extreme in the South, which incarcerates people—primarily Black men—at the highest rates in the world.
The president’s latest salvo against the Constitution shouldn’t survive the judiciary’s scrutiny. But these days, you never know.
The first woman and second-ever Black person to serve as mayor of Los Angeles is under attack by conservative trolls like Elon Musk and Donald Trump.
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