Ibram X. Kendi
Ibram X. Kendi is a professor and the director of The Antiracist Research and Policy Center at American University. He is the National Book Award–winning author of Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America and the forthcoming How to Be an Antiracist.
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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.
