Ibram X. Kendi
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Russell Boyce / Reuters The Hopefulness and Hopelessness of 1619
Marking the 400-year African American struggle to survive and to be free of racism
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Heinz-Peter Bader / Reuters A Lynch Mob of One
The assault rifle has enabled racists to act alone.
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Brian Snyder / Reuters Trump Is in an Abusive Relationship With America
The president says he loves America, but he has shattered it in two.
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Erin Scott / Reuters Am I an American?
President Trump’s tirade against four minority congresswomen prompts the question: Whom does he consider to be American?
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Jim Bourg / Reuters What to an American Is the Fourth of July?
Power comes before freedom, not the other way around.
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Pablo Martinez Monsivais / AP There Is No Middle Ground on Reparations
Americans who oppose reparations care more about responding to political expediency than about the emergency of inequality.
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Jason Reed / Reuters Robert Smith’s Real Gift to Morehouse
The billionaire didn’t just pay off graduates’ debts; he offered an invaluable lesson about the real nature of individual success.
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Vincent Thian / AP White Terrorists Give Political Cover to Other Americans’ Prejudices
The racial fears motivating white-nationalist killers are more widely shared than mainstream Americans would prefer to admit.
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Julia Rendleman / Reuters A Reading List for Ralph Northam
If he won’t step down, the governor will need this anti-racist syllabus.
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Jim Watson / AFP / Getty The Day ‘Shithole’ Entered the Presidential Lexicon
In insulting certain countries, Trump revealed the hierarchy he imposes on the world.
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Win McNamee / Getty What I Learned From Cancer
Any politician who is overfunding law and order, border security, and wars on terror—and underfunding medical research—is not keeping us safe.
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Kacper Pempel / Reuters What the Believers Are Denying
The denial of climate change and the denial of racism rest on the same foundation: an attack on observable reality.
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Titus Kaphar A House Still Divided
In 1858, Abraham Lincoln warned that America could not remain “half slave and half free.” Today, the country remains divided by racism—and the threat is as existential as it was before the Civil War.
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J. Scott Applewhite / AP / Katie Martin ... More Devoted to Order Than to Justice
Political moderates who counsel against confrontation and warn of incivility would abandon the tools that have changed America for the better.
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Rich Pedroncelli / AP It's Time for Police to Start Snitching
Communities of color are actually disproportionately likely to report crimes—it’s police themselves who have maintained a corrosive culture of silence.
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Rinzy999 / Atstock Productions / Shutterstock / The ... What's the Difference Between a Frat and a Gang?
They’re both blamed for predisposing their members to violent acts, but they’ve sparked radically different public-policy responses.
