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Race relations

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

Tools Rush In

From comments appended to a post made last November on OathKeepers.org, a “non-partisan association of current and formerly serving military, police, and first responders.” The post sought volunteers to guard…

Fuzzfeed

From posts to Five-O, an app created by three African-American teenage siblings that allows users to comment on interactions with police officers.

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,…

Washington Is Burning

by Andrew Cockburn,

Two centuries of racial tribulation in the nation’s capital

Harlem Is Nowhere

by Ralph Ellison,

To live in Harlem is to dwell in the very bowels of the city; it is to pass a labyrinthine existence among streets that explode monotonously skyward with the spires…

The Civil Rights Act’s Unsung Victory

by Randall Kennedy,

And how it changed the South

Nothing Left

by Adolph Reed Jr.,

The long, slow surrender of American liberals

Othello’s Son

by Frederic Morton,

A racial education

Witness Projection

by Tristan McConnell,

How Ushahidi is mapping crises around the world