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And Red All Over

From the FBI file on Lloyd Louis Brown, who wrote the prison novel Iron City (1951), edited several Communist journals, and coauthored Paul Robeson’s autobiography, Here I Stand. The file…

From Lynching in America, a report published in February by the Equal Justice Initiative, an organization based in Montgomery, Alabama, that litigates on behalf of indigent and marginalized defendants.

Municipal Bonds

From a class-action lawsuit filed in February against the city of Ferguson, Missouri, for excessively fining and imprisoning residents for minor infractions. In March, the Department of Justice concluded that…

Displaced in the D.R.

by Rachel Nolan,

A country strips 210,000 of citizenship

The Great Republican Land Heist

by Christopher Ketcham,

Cliven Bundy and the politicians who are plundering the West

The House We Live In

by Claudia Rankine,

By Claudia Rankine, from Citizen: An American Lyric, published last month by Graywolf Press. Rankine is the author of several books of poems, including Plot, The End of the Alphabet,…

Israel and Palestine

by Bernard Avishai, Dani Dayan, Forsan Hussein, Eva Illouz, Bassim Khoury, Erel Margalit, Danny Rubinstein, Khalil Shikaki,

Where to go from here

The Civil Rights Act’s Unsung Victory

by Randall Kennedy,

And how it changed the South

Search and Destroy

by Christopher Cox,

Gutter punks throw bottles at the cops near Tompkins Square Park, a police cruiser is flipped upside down in Crown Heights, two men fight under the marquee of a Times…

Oedipus in Mississippi

by Carol Ruth Silver,

By Carol Ruth Silver, from a July 3, 1961, entry in a secret journal of her experiences at the maximum-security Mississippi State Penitentiary, in Parchman. One month earlier, the twenty-two-year-old…

Othello’s Son

by Frederic Morton,

A racial education

Civil rights

And Red All Over

Family Tradition

Municipal Bonds

Displaced in the D.R.

The Great Republican Land Heist

The House We Live In

Israel and Palestine

The Civil Rights Act’s Unsung Victory

Search and Destroy

Oedipus in Mississippi

Othello’s Son

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And Red All Over

Family Tradition

Municipal Bonds

Displaced in the D.R.

The Great Republican Land Heist

The House We Live In

Israel and Palestine

The Civil Rights Act’s Unsung Victory

Search and Destroy

Oedipus in Mississippi

Othello’s Son

September 2013

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