“Why Aren’t Black People More Optimistic?”
In a 1968 interview, television personality Dick Cavett asked James Baldwin, renowned author-activist, what many white Americans at that time
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Racial Violence
Multiple and Interlocking: Black Lives Matter as a Lens
*A version of this essay originally appeared on Public Seminar, as part of its Race/isms Book Forum on The Making of Black Lives Matter:
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Marielle Franco, Black Queer Women, and Police Violence in Brazil
On Wednesday, March 14th, countless Brazilians and others around the world were saddened and angered after learning of the devastating news
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Police Violence and the Debate Over Gun Control
In the aftermath of the Parkland shooting, the National Rifle Association (NRA) entered the news as their successful lobbying of
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Writing on Poor Whites and Slavery in the Antebellum South
*This post is part of our roundtable on Keri Leigh Merritt’s Masterless Men. First, I want to take a moment to thank the
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