This week in “Tales of False Equivalency from the Rabid Right”
If there’s anything worse than having to read the details of Vester Flanagan’s murderous rampage, it is watching cynical right-wing
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Jean-Michel Basquiat: Black. Intellectual. Historian.
[CLICK IMAGES FOR HIGHER RESOLUTION] Last week I moved to Harlem. On Sunday I spent the day with Jean
Read moreDid abolitionism cause the Civil War?
I recently came across a review on a conservative website of Thomas Fleming’s A Disease in the Public Mind: A
Read more“A Troubled Past” and the Meanings of Breaking the Law
In early August, St. Louis County Police shot eighteen-year-old Tyrone Harris, Jr. amidst an outbreak of violence during protests in
Read moreOn the use of “Slave Mistress”
The passing of the great civil-rights leader Julian Bond earlier this week ignited a firestorm of activity on Twitter.
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