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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.
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Kyle Grillot / Reuters We’re Still Living and Dying in the Slaveholders’ Republic
The pandemic has brought the latest battle in the long American war over communal well-being.
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CDC / Getty / The Atlantic Stop Blaming Black People for Dying of the Coronavirus
New data from 29 states confirm the extent of the racial disparities.
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mim.girl / Shutterstock / The Atlantic What the Racial Data Show
The pandemic seems to be hitting people of color the hardest.
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