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Trayvon Martin
February 3, 2023
Anthony Conwright
Videos of Police Brutality Against Black People Are a Futile Spectacle
The ritual of repeated “reckonings” hasn’t changed abuses by cops.
April 29, 2022
Timothy Noah
Don’t Let the Tobacco Industry Use George Floyd to Kill a Ban on Menthol Cigarettes
Most members of the Congressional Black Caucus agree that the ban is a great move. So why is Al Sharpton taking the side of R.J. Reynolds?
August 31, 2020
Melissa Gira Grant
Far-Right Militias Are Learning Impunity From the Cops
Trump’s supporters in law enforcement and government play Kenosha as both a threat of what’s to come and an invitation to join in.
May 17, 2019
Magazine
Astra Taylor
Reclaiming the Future
On the growing appeal of socialism in an age of inequality
March 2, 2018
Sarah Jaffe
The Gun Control Fight Is a Fight For Equality
The Parkland shooting has sparked another debate about guns—a debate mistakenly siloed from other issues that contribute to deadly violence.
June 22, 2017
Magazine
Mychal Denzel Smith
A Grief Observed
From Emmett Till to Trayvon Martin, the power and pain of black mourning.
April 6, 2017
Magazine
Peniel E. Joseph
Why Black Lives Matter Still Matters
Three years after BLM launched a nationwide uprising against police violence, what's next for the movement?
February 27, 2015
Cristian Farias
Eric Holder Wants to Lower the Bar for Civil Rights Prosecutions. That's Trickier Than It Sounds.
February 25, 2015
Cristian Farias
Why Is It So Hard to Prove a Civil Rights Crime?
The Zimmerman case reveals the limits of the law—and foreshadows the Ferguson outcome
November 25, 2014
Brian Beutler
Go to Ferguson Right Now, President Obama, and Give Your Biggest Race Speech Yet
September 25, 2014
Rebecca Leber
ALEC Can't Hold On To Its Tech Giants Anymore
August 18, 2014
Brian Beutler
The Right-Wing Response to Ferguson Is Depressingly Predictable
July 22, 2013
Steven Hahn
How Obama's Trayvon Comments Compare to Kennedy and Johnson's Race Speeches
July 20, 2013
John McWhorter
No More "Conversations"
We don't need to talk about race. We need to end racial profiling.
July 19, 2013
Isaac Chotiner
The Right Will Pounce on Obama's Remarks on Race. Bring It.
July 18, 2013
Molly Redden
The Conversation About Race That Rich Lowry Wants
July 16, 2013
Julia Ioffe
How the Tea Party's "Black Conservatives" Reacted to the Zimmerman Verdict
July 16, 2013
Richard Thompson Ford
The Law that Acquitted Zimmerman Isn't Racist
But that doesn't mean the outcome wasn't
July 16, 2013
Isaac Chotiner
Why There's Hope in the Zimmerman Verdict's Aftermath
July 15, 2013
Nora Caplan-Bricker
Michael Steele: Zimmerman Trial Was Not the Place for a Race Debate
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