Ibram X. Kendi
He is the author of several books, including the National Book Award–winning Stamped From the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America, How to Raise an Antiracist, and the international best seller How to Be an Antiracist. In 2020, Time named Kendi one of the 100 most influential people in the world. He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Harvard Radcliffe Institute Fellowship, and a MacArthur Fellowship.
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Katie Martin / The Atlantic; Getty Zora Neale Hurston Is for Everyone
Her work shows us that our lives are defined not by tragedy but by joy.
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Gordon Parks / Courtesy of the Gordon Parks … My Daughter’s White Doll
Was I right to worry?
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Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times / Getty The Double Terror of Being Black in America
Structural racism killed Black people in east Buffalo, and then a gunman killed the survivors.
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Adam Maida / The Atlantic The Danger More Republicans Should Be Talking About
White-supremacist ideology is harmful to all, especially the naive and defenseless minds of youth.
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Fox News / Getty / The Atlantic The Mantra of White Supremacy
The idea that anti-racist is a code word for “anti-white” is the claim of avowed extremists.
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Photo illustration by Adam Maida / The Atlantic; … The Second Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
King’s nightmare of racism is being presented as his dream.
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Paul Spella; Getty; The Atlantic There Is No Debate Over Critical Race Theory
Pundits and politicians have created their own definition for the term, and then set about attacking it.
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The Atlantic Our New Postracial Myth
The postracial idea is the most sophisticated racist idea ever produced.
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Ruddy Roye We Still Don’t Know Who the Coronavirus’s Victims Were
One year into a racial pandemic within a viral one, the gaps in our collective knowledge are still startling.
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Adam Maida / The Atlantic Compliance Will Not Save Me
Black and brown people’s defiance is not the problem. Our compliance is not the solution.
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Dey Street Books / Viking / Hachette Books … The 10 Best Political Books of 2020 by Black Women
Last year, Black women called upon themselves, made themselves heard, and shared their political talents and minds.
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Getty / The Atlantic Denial Is the Heartbeat of America
When have Americans been willing to admit who we are?
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Getty / The Atlantic Stop Scapegoating Progressives
Democrats need elected officials to do what Trump never did: Accept responsibility. Absorb criticism. Come back and campaign better.
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Andrew Caballero-Reynolds / AFP / Getty; Samuel Corum … A Battle Between the Two Souls of America
There is a divide in America between the souls of injustice and justice.
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The Atlantic A Campaign of Voter Subtraction
Trump’s Republican Party must subtract votes in order to survive.
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Mark Peterson / Redux The Violent Defense of White Male Supremacy
Trump and his supporters are defending an America where white men can rule and brutalize without consequence.
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The Atlantic Is This the Beginning of the End of American Racism?
Donald Trump has revealed the depths of the country’s prejudice—and has inadvertently forced a reckoning.
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Danny Lyon / Magnum Patience Is a Dirty Word
“We do not want our freedom gradually,” John Lewis said, “but we want to be free now!”
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Oliver Munday / The Atlantic The American Nightmare
To be black and conscious of anti-black racism is to stare into the mirror of your own extinction.
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Image courtesy of Chase Hall Studio Who Gets to Be Afraid in America?
Americans don’t see me, or Ahmaud Arbery, running down the road—they see their fear.
