Robin D. G. Kelley The Long War on Black Studies It would be a mistake to think of the current wave of attacks on “critical race theory” as a culture war. This is a political battle. June 17, 2023
Brandon M. Terry The Two Titans of Civil Rights “Both men ventured remarkably prophetic judgments about the ways that security state machinations and profligate war-making would prove utterly devastating to American life.” March 6, 2021
Michael Eric Dyson St. Paul’s Letter to America “After the Capitol offense, all thoughts of American exceptionalism should be dead,” says the apostle. “But you need not despair.” January 18, 2021
Claudia Dreifus An Interview with Jerry Mitchell Among the murder cases that Jerry Mitchell investigated and got reopened were the 1963 assassination of Mississippi NAACP Field Secretary Medgar Evers, and the 1964 murders of three civil rights workers. August 24, 2020
Richard Kreitner A Brief History of Dangerous Others The outside agitator trope has always been, at bottom, a way of putting dissidents in their place. July 27, 2020