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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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Molly Crabapple America’s Political Roots Are in Eutaw, Alabama
When I think about the 1870 riot, I remember how the country rejected the opportunity it had.
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Saul Loeb / AFP / Getty Newtown’s Congresswoman Takes on Marjorie Taylor Greene
Representative Jahana Hayes is leading a push to kick Greene off of the House Education Committee. Should Greene be expelled from the House entirely?
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Stephanie Keith / Getty America Can’t Exhale Just Yet
Demonstrations across the country after the Capitol riot were small, but more violence may soon come.
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Getty / The Atlantic What Will 2021 Hold for Cities?
With no help coming from the federal government, can Richmond’s mayor still execute an equity agenda?
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Bryan R. Smith / AFP / Getty The People vs. Hate
Karl Racine and a bipartisan group of state attorneys general want to curb hate crimes. Can they succeed where others have failed?
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William Widmer / Redux Is American Healing Even Possible?
In an extended interview, the Reverend William J. Barber II explains why healing the soul of the nation will take more than returning to “normal.”
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ERIN SCHAFF / The New York Times / ... What Biden Owes Black Voters
Black voters helped save the president-elect’s primary campaign and put him over the top in the general election. Now they want action.
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Cameron Pollack / Getty / The Atlantic The South Has Already Changed
Jaime Harrison lost to Lindsey Graham but expanded Democrats’ vision of what’s possible in the Deep South.
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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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