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January 29, 2018
In the Legal System, Talking White Is a Precursor to Justice—and That’s Wrong
If the legal system keeps treating AAE as a lesser form of English, it can never claim to view black people with the same legitimacy as white people.
Jordana Rosenfeld
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August 16, 2016
Is Angela Corey the Cruelest Prosecutor in America?
The woman who failed to convict Trayvon Martin’s killer is putting hundreds of kids in prison, and dozens of people on death row.
Jessica Pishko
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November 23, 2015
The Lessons of Jordan Davis’s Murder, Revisited
HBO’s new documentary reminds us how deadly threat perception is for black people.
Kristal Brent Zook
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July 28, 2015
Black Love Matters
A dispatch from the inaugural gathering of a proudly diffuse, rapidly growing, hyper-local movement for black lives.
Mark Winston Griffith
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October 29, 2014
How Racism Stole Black Childhood
People who are black and poor aren’t allowed to be young and irresponsible.
Gary Younge
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August 27, 2014
How Trayvon Martin’s Death Launched a New Generation of Black Activism
A host of new groups are reviving the grassroots fight for racial equality.
Mychal Denzel Smith
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August 27, 2014
The New Fight for Racial Justice
Read all the pieces in The Nation’s special issue on the new wave of racial justice organizing.
The Nation
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August 27, 2014
Renewing the Struggle for Racial Justice, Post-Ferguson
We must face the true causes of the chasm between white and black America.
The Editors
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February 19, 2014
Freelance Stop-and-Shoot
The murder of Jordan Davis—like that of Renisha McBride, Trayvon Martin and so many others—reflects a racist culture in which the black body is considered fair game.
Gary Younge
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February 5, 2014
Fuck George Zimmerman and the Culture He Rode In On
Shame on all of us for allowing Trayvon's life and death to be turned into a spectacle.
Mychal Denzel Smith