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The Death of an Adjunct
Thea Hunter was a promising, brilliant scholar. And then she got trapped in academia’s permanent underclass.
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Elaine Cromie / Getty Why Biden Needs Black Men
The Biden campaign is making its final pitch to energize an important constituency.
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Getty The People Trump Came Home To
The president’s behavior threatens the very employees charged with taking care of him.
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Malverne Historical and Preservation Society The New York Town That Tried to Stop Desegregation
Frederick K. Brewington’s education came at the end of a bitter civil-rights battle that engulfed New York State, more than a decade after Brown v. Board of Education.
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AP The Persistence of Segregation in South Carolina
Millicent Brown changed Charleston, then watched it stay the same.
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AP The Quiet Desegregation of Alabama’s Public Schools
Sonnie Hereford IV desegregated Alabama’s public schools in 1963. He was only 6 years old.
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Howard Sochurek / The LIFE Picture Collection / ... The Undoing of a Tennessee Town
Jo Ann Allen Boyce and 11 other students desegregated their high school in Clinton, Tennessee. Then the riots came.
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Courtesy of Hugh Price The Limits of Desegregation in Washington, D.C.
Hugh Price and his family fought for him to be one of the first Black students at his all-white high school in Washington, D.C. But once he was there, he “couldn’t wait for it to be over.”
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The Atlantic What Did College Leaders Think Was Going to Happen?
University administrators should have seen this coming.
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Lionel Bonaventure / AFP / Getty What Are Parents Supposed to Do With Their Kids?
With public schools closed, at least 15 states have no free child-care options for essential workers.
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Joshua Rashaad McFadden The New Southern Strategy
How Black mayors in the South are leveraging both the power of office and the power of the street to achieve overdue changes
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Olivier Douliery / AFP / Getty; Chip Somodevilla ... The Battle for the Future of the GOP Is No Contest
How can Tim Scott and Nikki Haley be what’s next for a party that has so completely embraced Trumpism?
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Callaghan O’Hare / Bloomberg / Getty Why the Democrats’ Keynote Fell Flat
The party opened the second night of its convention with a joint address from 17 “rising stars.” But Kamala Harris’s upcoming speech is really the one to watch.
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Carolyn Kaster / John Locher / AP How Kamala Harris’s Attack on Joe Biden Helped Her
What the infamous debate-night quarrel over busing means for the future of the Democratic ticket
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Adraint Khadafhi Bereal The Black Yearbook
Photos from the University of Texas at Austin
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Bill Clark / CQ-Roll Call / Getty ‘Defund the Police’ Splits the Black Caucus. Or Does It?
What will the “conscience of Congress” look like now?
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Bill Clark / CQ Roll Call / Getty The World John Lewis Helped Create
Black leaders pause to reflect on the civil-rights icon and representative from Georgia, who spent decades calling for activism and “good trouble.”
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Stephanie Keith / Getty First Comes Police Reform. Then Comes Everything Else.
Americans took to the streets to protest police brutality. But the need for systemic reform runs much deeper.
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Anna Webber / Mandel Ngan / Getty / ... The Truth About What Happens Next for Colleges
Howard University and the UC system are returning to “hybrid” teaching, bringing some students back to campus. Their leaders explain their plans.
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Shutterstock / The Atlantic The Voting Disaster Ahead
Intentional voter suppression and unintentional suppression of the vote will collide in November.
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Shutterstock / The Atlantic Racism Won’t Be Solved by Yet Another Blue-Ribbon Report
Elected officials instinctively turn to studying problems rather than solving them.
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