(Ta-Nehisi Coates, 2014) Two hundred fifty years of slavery. Ninety years of Jim Crow. Sixty years of separate but equal. Thirty-five years of racist housing policy. Until we reckon with our compounding moral debts, America will never be whole.

(Jeffrey Goldberg, 2015) Since 1980, more than 260,000 black men have been killed in America. Mitch Landrieu, the mayor of New Orleans, is on a crusade to stop the killing.

(Ta-Nehisi Coates, 2015) American politicians are now eager to disown a failed criminal-justice system that’s left the U.S. with the largest incarcerated population in the world. But they've failed to reckon with history. Fifty years after Daniel Patrick Moynihan’s report “The Negro Family” tragically helped create this system, it's time to reclaim his original intent.

(Ta-Nehisi Coates, 2015) When officers take the lives of those they are sworn to protect and serve, they undermine their own legitimacy.

(Adia Harvey Wingfield, 2017) When legislators don't consider preexisting disparities, there's a risk of exacerbating them.

(Vann R. Newkirk II, 2017) The story of a decades-long lead-poisoning lawsuit in New Orleans illustrates how the toxin destroys black families and communities alike.

(Mimi Kirk, 2017) Recent reports highlight school disciplinary practices and suggest ways to stop them.

(Adam Serwer, 2017) Trump’s supporters backed a time-honored American political tradition, disavowing racism while promising to enact a broad agenda of discrimination.

(William J. Barber II, 2018) The nation’s problem isn’t that we don’t have enough money. It’s that we don’t have the moral capacity to face what ails society.

(Abdallah Fayyad, 2018) Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream of an integrated America was about creating a more equal society, but to many white homeowners, it was a threat.

(Vann R. Newkirk II, 2018) In the five years since the landmark decision, the Supreme Court has set the stage for a new era of white hegemony.

(Vann R. Newkirk II, 2018) A new survey from The Atlantic and the Public Religion Research Institute shows that black and Hispanic citizens are more likely than whites to face barriers at the polls—and to fear the future erosion of their basic political rights.

(Olga Khazan, 2018) In Baltimore and other segregated cities, the life-expectancy gap between African Americans and whites is as much as 20 years. One young woman’s struggle shows why.

(Jonathan Mummolo, 2018) It doesn’t make the police or public any safer. But figuring that out exposed the dearth of useable data on law-enforcement practices.

(Ibram X. Kendi, 2018) In 1858, Abraham Lincoln warned that America could not remain “half slave and half free.” Today, the country remains divided by racism—and the threat is as existential as it was before the Civil War.

(Ted Alcorn, 2019) When a Nashville officer killed a black man, his mother and other activists didn’t just seek an indictment—they fought to give citizens oversight of the whole police department.

(Osagie K. Obasogie, 2019) Violence perpetrated by cops doesn’t simply boil down to individual bad actors—it’s also a systemic, judicial failing.

(Vann R. Newkirk II, 2019) The shameful story of how 1 million black families have been ripped from their farms

(Wilfred Codrington III, 2019) More than two centuries after it was designed to empower southern white voters, the system continues to do just that.

(Ibram X. Kendi, 2020) New data from 29 states confirm the extent of the racial disparities.

(Adam Serwer, 2020) The pandemic has exposed the bitter terms of our racial contract, which deems certain lives of greater value than others.

(Adam Serwer, 2020)​​​​​​​ The president didn’t cause America’s policing crisis, but he deliberately made it worse.

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Angela Davis, Vanity Fair Sept 2020. Scholar and activist ANGELA DAVIS has spent more than 50 years working for social justice. This summer, society started to catch up

The New Yorker, 6/19/2020 James S. Glaude, Jr. How the history or Baldwin and MLK speaks to BLM today and Juneteenth.

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