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Bettman / Getty How Conservatives Turned the ‘Color-Blind Constitution’ Against Racial Progress
Progressives used to argue that the Constitution doesn’t see race. Now conservatives have weaponized that same idea.
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Brynn Anderson / AP Kamala Harris Knew What She Was Doing
In challenging Biden, the senator from California makes a play for the Democrats’ most reliable voters.
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Kim Hong-Ji / Reuters Will the Department of Defense Invest in People or Technology?
The Trump administration will determine the future of the Third Offset, a plan for ensuring the long-term competitive advantage of the U.S. armed forces.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Searching for the Black Trump Supporter
The Republican nominee doesn’t have many fans in the black community. But those who back him share similar personal and ideological characteristics.
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Jeff Roberson / AP The Disputed Influence of Black Lives Matter
Research suggests the movement affects voting behavior among African Americans in different ways.
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AP The Increasing Irrelevance of the Congressional Black Caucus
The group has failed to connect with young voters, which is not a good sign for its future.
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Susan Walsh / AP The 'New Look' of the Post-Obama Electorate
African Americans are converging around an abundance of issues, wanting to be heard and employing new strategies to achieve it.
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Mark J. Terrill / AP Race-Baiting for the Presidency
Candidates have long used coded language to capitalize on subtle prejudices in the electorate—but will it work in 2016?
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Jeff Swensen AFP/Getty Will Blacks Continue to Toe The Democratic Party Line?
Decades of overwhelming support could be evaporating, as new generations of African-Americans grapple with novel choices.
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Whitney Curtis / Reuters Can the Democratic Party Retain Its Hold on Black Voters?
Decades of overwhelming support could be evaporating, as new generations of African Americans grapple with novel choices.
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Jacquelyn Martin / AP The Political Power of the Black Sorority
Loretta Lynch's confirmation as U.S attorney general was a crucial victory for a group of women whose influence is seldom appreciated.
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Left: Jose Luis Magana/AP; Top Right: Earnie Grafton/Reuters; … The Partisan Paradox of Black Republicans
Conservatives can find themselves alienated from the broader African American community, yet not wholly embraced by their chosen party.
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Matt Neale/Flickr Black-on-Black Racism: The Hazards of Implicit Bias
How the politics of respectability twists society
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Djandywdotcom/Flickr What If Black America Were a Country?
The statistics reveal a fragile state within a superpower.
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Finbarr O'Reilly/Reuters How to Apologize for Slavery
What the U.S. can learn from West Africa
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Reuters The League of Extraordinary Black Gentlemen
"As an upper-middle-class black male, I am seen as part of the solution class tasked with rescuing my nation from its problem and my race from itself."
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Library of Congress What Stop-and-Frisk Means to the Descendants of Slaves
Racial profiling is a lazy reversion to an older America—a nation that wasn't designed with black citizens in mind. This post is part of a debate series on “Is Stop and Frisk Worth It?," an article featured in the current issue of The Atlantic magazine.
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Slave Narratives/Library of Congress Black History Month Isn't Making Life Better for Black Americans
Heroes like Frederick Douglass and Rosa Parks feel like characters in a novel—a world away from the clicking locks and nervous glances that plague millions of ordinary people.
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aresauburn/Flickr The Federal Student Aid Program Is Breaking Its Promise to the Poor
Students from households with more than $100,000 in income received more federal aid in recent years than those from households with less than $20,000 in income.
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Did I Really Go to Harvard If I Got My Degree Taking Online Classes?
At extension schools, it's possible to get an Ivy-League education at a fraction of the price, with lower admissions standards.
