I wanted to highlight this excellent essay by the historian of slavery and colleague of mine Marcus Nevius, talking about how the long history of refusal by politicians to confront the nation’s
There is so much conversation about racism in science and technology today because that very real history is leading to major policy impacts as people of color are volunteering for the COVID vaccine a
Every part of American society is poisoned by racism, from the doctor’s office to the scientific laboratory to the PTA to the Klan cross burning. And this is how we know that: Life expectancy in
So, apparently, we’ve endangered the French Republic. “We” here is US academics who talk about race. And “endanger” seems to mean that the idea that racism needs to be ta
They all look the same, amiright? In February 2019, Nijeer Parks was accused of shoplifting candy and trying to hit a police officer with a car at a Hampton Inn in Woodbridge, N.J. He had been identif
Politico is mostly a bad publication, but it certainly represents conventional wisdom. And nothing is more conventional wisdom than that Democrats are responsible for the loss of rural white voters. N
This is both disturbing and something that fits squarely into the history of America’s racist system of incarceration. Several legal advocacy groups on Monday filed a whistleblower complaint on
If you have time for any one long-read today, make it this story by a former U.S. diplomatic officer working in Mexico who was so routinely harassed crossing the border by Customs and Border Protectio