One may wonder what there is new to say about the civil rights movement. In the immediate aftermath of Barack Obama’s first election it seemed...
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30 May 2015
Book Review: A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life By Allyson Hobbs
Reading A Chosen Exile reminded me of an...
02 December 2014
My fiancé died more than twelve years ago and of all the things he left me, it is a box of love letters–and poems, cartoons, and crossword puzzles–I cherish...
01 September 2014
How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America By Kiese Laymon
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21 August 2014
Dog Whistle Politics: How Coded Racial Appeals Have Reinvented...
31 May 2014
The Kennedy Half Century: The Presidency,...