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Jim Crow
Jim Crow news and analysis from The Nation
June 16, 2017
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.
May 10, 2017
NFL quarterback took his Know Your Rights Camp to the South Side of Chicago. Here is an exclusive look inside.
March 27, 2017
Without it, activists will have to find new ways to bring about change in 2017.
February 16, 2017
Alexander Acosta was once accused of undermining the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division. Now he could become secretary of labor.
January 9, 2017
Sessions’s extreme views on crime and punishment are a throwback to the darkest chapters in American history.
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November 4, 2015
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.
September 1, 2015
For too long, we have looked in the wrong place and race for the genesis of our national story.
March 23, 2015
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.
March 20, 2015
Our own progress against racism in the United States remains too recent, too fragile and too incomplete to go on abetting apartheid in Israel.
February 3, 2015
“Rights can be won, and rights can be taken away. Achievements are always vulnerable.”
