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“I understand the large hearts of heroes,” wrote an ecstatic Walt Whitman in “Song of Myself”: The courage of present times and all times, How the skipper saw the crowded…

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Front Runner
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Marine Le Pen’s campaign to make France great again

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The Charmer
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Louis Farrakhan and the Black Lives Matter protests

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Lifting as We Climb
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A progressive defense of respectability politics

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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.

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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…

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Displaced in the D.R.
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A country strips 210,000 of citizenship

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The House We Live In
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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,…

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Sara Jeannette Duncan’s “The Ordination of Asoka” (1903)
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A story

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America’s Ancestry Craze
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Making sense of our family-tree obsession

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White fan’s burden
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