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June 16, 2017
Systemic Racism Couldn’t Care Less About Your Respectability Politics
What could not save Philando Castile, Jordan Edwards or Richard Collins III is the same thing that I have been told would save me, a young black college student: respectability.
Shekinah Mondoua
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May 10, 2017
Colin Kaepernick’s Message to Chicago Youth: ‘Know Your Rights’
NFL quarterback took his Know Your Rights Camp to the South Side of Chicago. Here is an exclusive look inside.
Dave Zirin
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March 27, 2017
The Civil Rights Movement Had One Powerful Tool That We Don’t Have
Without it, activists will have to find new ways to bring about change in 2017.
Jon Else
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February 16, 2017
Trump’s Labor Pick Has a History of Attacking Voting Rights
Alexander Acosta was once accused of undermining the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division. Now he could become secretary of labor.
John Nichols
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January 9, 2017
Jeff Sessions Could Return Criminal Justice to the Jim Crow Era
Sessions’s extreme views on crime and punishment are a throwback to the darkest chapters in American history.
Ari Berman
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November 4, 2015
It’s Shocking How Relevant This 150-Year-Old Denunciation of American Racism Is Today
In 1865, a writer in The Nation took aim at the deadly dehumanization of black lives that plagued the United States then as it does today.
Richard Kreitner
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September 1, 2015
Historians of Color Are Revolutionizing the Narrative of ‘American Exceptionalism’
For too long, we have looked in the wrong place and race for the genesis of our national story.
David Levering Lewis
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March 23, 2015
Toward a Third Reconstruction
A conversation on The Nation, race and history at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture with Eric Foner, Darryl Pinckney, Mychal Denzel Smith, Isabel Wilkerson and Patricia J. Williams.
The Nation
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March 20, 2015
The Jim Crow Holy Land
Our own progress against racism in the United States remains too recent, too fragile and too incomplete to go on abetting apartheid in Israel.
Phyllis Bennis and Foreign Policy In Focus
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February 3, 2015
How Radical Change Occurs: An Interview With Historian Eric Foner
“Rights can be won, and rights can be taken away. Achievements are always vulnerable.”
Mike Konczal