Four Standouts From the New York Film Festival Four Standouts From the New York Film Festival
I Am Not Your Negro, Moonlight, 13th, and I Called Him Morgan.
Oct 18, 2016 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
In Greensboro, Obama Links Trump’s Misogyny to Trump’s Racism—as Only Obama Can In Greensboro, Obama Links Trump’s Misogyny to Trump’s Racism—as Only Obama Can
A fired-up Obama told the mostly African-American crowd: “You have everything to lose!”
Oct 12, 2016 / Joan Walsh
Ava DuVernay Reminds Us: The Past Must Be Present in Criminal-Justice Reform Ava DuVernay Reminds Us: The Past Must Be Present in Criminal-Justice Reform
Her new documentary explains how the “slavery loophole” perpetuates racial disparities in mass incarceration.
Oct 11, 2016 / Khalil Gibran Muhammad
Racism Got You Stressed? That May Be Holding Kids Back at School, Too. Racism Got You Stressed? That May Be Holding Kids Back at School, Too.
New research suggests the experience of bias alters our hormones in ways that widen the academic achievement gap.
Oct 4, 2016 / Benjamin Ryan
Fortress America Fortress America
How 20th-century liberals helped create our age of mass incarceration.
Sep 27, 2016 / Books & the Arts / James Forman Jr.
Black Charlotte Is Frustrated—and That’s by Design Black Charlotte Is Frustrated—and That’s by Design
The Queen City has boomed in recent years. But its growth and prosperity has only hardened a racial divide established decades ago.
Sep 26, 2016 / Greg Lacour
Black as We Wanna Be Black as We Wanna Be
Trying to remedy racism on its own intellectual terrain is like trying to extinguish a fire by striking another match. The fiction must be unbelieved, the fire stamped out.
Sep 15, 2016 / Books & the Arts / Matthew McKnight
American Jews Should Support the Movement for Black Lives Platform American Jews Should Support the Movement for Black Lives Platform
It’s rigorous in its analysis and compassionate in its quest for justice—and the short section on Palestine is no exception.
Sep 7, 2016 / Ilise Benshushan Cohen, Aurora Levins Morales, and Rebecca Vilkomerson
Footage of the Largest Gang Raid in NYPD History Reveals the Agency’s Military-Style Tactics Footage of the Largest Gang Raid in NYPD History Reveals the Agency’s Military-Style Tactics
Incoming police commissioner James O’Neill oversaw the arrests.
Sep 1, 2016 / Simon Davis-Cohen
The Wage Gap Is Worse for Black Women The Wage Gap Is Worse for Black Women
Black women earn just 67 cents for every dollar white men earn.
Aug 29, 2016 / Michelle Chen