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Blanket Security

By Thomas Chatterton Williams. Williams is the author of the memoir Losing My Cool, published by Penguin Press in 2010.

A Kind of Grace

by Hannah Black,

By Hannah Black. Black is an artist and writer from the U.K. She is the author of Dark Pool Party, which was published last month by Dominica/Arcadia Missa.

Common Cause

by Alix Rule,

By Alix Rule. Rule is a doctoral student in sociology at Columbia University.

Revenge Tragedy

by Austin Reed,

From The Life and the Adventures of a Haunted Convict, a memoir by Austin Reed, published this month by Random House. Likely completed in 1858, the manuscript was discovered at…

If Looks Could Kill

From posts by residents of Oakland, California, to NextDoor and Glenfriends, two online social networks for neighbors.

Lifting as We Climb

by Randall Kennedy,

A progressive defense of respectability politics

In the Shadow of the Storm

by Rebecca Solnit,

Ten years ago this month, on the day Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast, I was at Camp Casey, an informal encampment outside George W. Bush’s Crawford ranch, listening to…

What Recovery?

by Kai Wright,

Two years in a town where the Great Recession never ended

Bleakness Stakes

by Ryann Liebenthal, Shayla Love,

From summaries of police-brutality cases recently settled by the city of Baltimore. An investigation conducted last year by the Baltimore Sun found that police-misconduct settlements have cost the city nearly…

And Red All Over

by William J. Maxwell,

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…

Family Tradition

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.