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Anti-Black Racism
November 6, 2020
Magazine
Jennifer Wilson
Yaa Gyasi Versus the Identity Trap
In “Transcendent Kingdom,” a young Black woman refuses to be defined by other people’s narratives.
August 25, 2020
Jo Livingstone
The Whitney Museum’s Careless Attempt to Curate a Summer of Black Uprising
The self-appointed guardians of America’s visual heritage are at it again.
August 13, 2020
Magazine
Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw
Fear of a Black Uprising
Confronting the white pathologies that shape racist policing
August 10, 2020
Melissa Gira Grant
The Unfinished Business of Women’s Suffrage
The women who remain locked out of the right to vote are the fractured legacy of a fractured movement.
July 6, 2020
Isabel Cristo
Policing Doesn’t Protect Women
As abolitionist frameworks enter the mainstream, addressing gendered and sexual violence is treated like a conceptual trap. It’s not.
July 3, 2020
Nick Martin
Reckoning With Anti-Blackness in Indian Country
Native lives won’t matter unless Black lives do.
June 24, 2020
Jo Livingstone
A Dream of Lasting Solidarity at the Dyke March
Marching this year was a reminder that the mainstream LGBT movement still needs to cement its commitment to anti-racism.
June 19, 2020
Char Adams
Where Do Black Journalists Go From Here?
The current industry-wide revolt echoes demands made by members of the Black press since at least 1827, but today’s rebellion feels like a breaking point.
June 17, 2020
Nick Martin
At-Will Employment Is the Real Cancel Culture
A Supreme Court case and a series of workplace uprisings raise the question: Whose jobs are really protected in this country?
June 4, 2020
Linda Tirado
Police Blinded Me in One Eye. I Can Still See Why My Country’s on Fire.
“All anyone wants to talk about is freedom of the press, if I am angry, what I will do next. I am angry—but no more than I was this time last week.”
June 1, 2020
Nick Martin
Tear Gas Doesn’t Deploy Itself
Mainstream press coverage of state violence tends to frame it as if it happened by magic.
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