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Visits from the Goon Squad

From behaviors of Little Rock, Arkansas, police, cited by the department since 2007. The internal reports were made public in October, following an investigation of the killing of Bobby Moore,…

The Gatekeepers

by Harper’s Magazine,

Unknown knowns: the limits of racial discourse in a system almost exclusively controlled by white people

People Like Me

by Emily Bernard,

From Black Is the Body, which will be published in February by Knopf. Bernard is a professor of English and critical race and ethnic studies at the University of Vermont,…

The Gatekeepers

by Mychal Denzel Smith,

On the burden of the black public intellectual

Political Football

by Kevin Baker,

With the fall and another election season upon us, the one thing we can count on is a renewal of Donald Trump’s war on football. This has become an annual…

Empty Suits

by Ian MacDougall,

Defamation law and the price of dissent

Now and Then

by Rebecca Solnit,

The present is by common definition the instant between the not yet and the already, a moment as narrow and treacherous as a tightrope. But you might instead define it…

A Matter of Degrees

by Michael S. Collins,

America’s long struggle with affirmative action

Where Health Care Won’t Go

by Helen Ouyang,

A tuberculosis crisis in the Black Belt

Southern Harm

by William Faulkner,

We are faced with two apparently irreconcilable facts in the South: the one being the decree of our national government that there be absolute equality in education among all citizens,…

The Boy Without a Country

by Jessica Weisberg,

Tokyo’s painful exclusion of immigrants

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Visits from the Goon Squad

The Gatekeepers

People Like Me

The Gatekeepers

Political Football

Empty Suits

Now and Then

A Matter of Degrees

Where Health Care Won’t Go

Southern Harm

The Boy Without a Country

April 2017

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