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Seth Herald / AFP / Getty Not Every Atrocity Is About White Supremacy
Why I am skeptical of the reflex to attribute violence to structural racism
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Joanne Imperio / The Atlantic; Mario Tama / … The Cognitive Dissonance of the Monterey Park Shooting
“How can you be celebrating and fearful at the same time?”
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Alanna Fields for The Atlantic A Blueprint for Black Liberation
What was left when the commune of my youth became a luxury apartment building
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William P. Straeter / AP; The Atlantic The Jerry Jones Photo Explains a Lot
A 1957 image of the Dallas Cowboys’ owner highlights long-standing inequities in the NFL.
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Erik Carter / The Atlantic; Getty The Blindness of ‘Color-Blindness’
When the Supreme Court heard oral arguments on the future of affirmative action, I knew I had to be there.
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Patrick T. Fallon / AFP / Getty What We Ask of Black American Athletes
The captain of the U.S. soccer team is the latest in a long line of sports stars who have had to wrestle with a complex legacy on the world stage.
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David Attie / Getty The Theater World Has Never Understood Lorraine Hansberry
The subversive intent of the playwright’s art and activism has long been underestimated.
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Getty; The Atlantic How Hoover Took Down the Klan
The FBI’s successful campaign against white supremacists is also a cautionary tale.
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Tejumola Butler Adenuga The Grimke Sisters and the Indelible Stain of Slavery
The abolitionists have long been portrayed as heroes. A new book views them, and their family, in a different light.
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Andy Sacks / Getty America After Affirmative Action
Adam Harris on where the end of the policy would leave college and university hopefuls
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Michael S. Williamson / The Washington Post via … The United States of Confederate America
Support for Confederate symbols and monuments follows lines of race, religion, and education rather than geography.
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Illustration by Guillem Casasús* The Guggenheim’s Scapegoat
A museum curator was forced out of her job over allegations of racism that an investigation deemed unfounded. What did her defenestration accomplish?
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Getty; The Atlantic Fear of a Black Hobbit
The demand to keep politics out of art is too often a demand for art to conform to conservative politics.
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The Washington Post / Getty; The Atlantic The Right’s Brittney Griner Obsession
Black athletes who bridge sports and social justice have always found themselves targeted by pundits for voicing dissatisfaction with the status quo.
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OWN Communications Queen Sugar Is the Most Luxurious Show on Television
The gorgeous family drama takes its time unraveling and honoring the particularities of Black life.
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Alex Webb / Magnum What’s Causing Black Flight?
The demographic shift from cities to suburbs illuminates many stories: of families moving to opportunity, of inequality replicating itself when they get there, and of the people left behind.
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Laszlo Balogh / Getty Why Viktor Orbán’s Racism Matters in the U.S.
Plus: Is sex sacred?
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Bettmann / Getty What Made Bill Russell a Hero
The basketball legend was a champion not just on the court but off it—through his groundbreaking activism for racial justice.
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David McNew / Getty Are Latinos Really Realigning Toward Republicans?
Tidy narratives about changing electoral outcomes often miss key data points.
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Bettmann / Getty; Hulton Archive / Getty; The … When Racial Progress Comes for White Liberals
Many Afrikaners welcomed the end of apartheid, but 30 years on, they’ve found Black-majority rule in South Africa hard to live with.
