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What a Series of Killings in Rural Georgia Revealed About Early 20th-Century America

What a Series of Killings in Rural Georgia Revealed About Early 20th-Century America

Earl Swift on the Continuing Regime of Racial Terror in the Post-Civil War American South

By Earl Swift | April 25, 2024

What you need to know about the Freydís Moon author scandal.

What you need to know about the Freydís Moon author scandal.

By Brittany Allen | April 22, 2024

Ream Shukairy on Telling Muslim Stories in an Islamophobic World

Ream Shukairy on Telling Muslim Stories in an Islamophobic World

“May we speak up the veins in our necks bulge. May we walk confidently into rooms demanding to be heard.”

By Ream Shukairy | April 1, 2024

How Lew Alcindor Became Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

How Lew Alcindor Became Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Scott Howard-Cooper on the Early Years of a Future Basketball Icon

By Scott Howard-Cooper | March 18, 2024

Visual Disposability: How Photographic Practice Dehumanizes Black Bodies

Visual Disposability: How Photographic Practice Dehumanizes Black Bodies

Kimberly Juanita Brown on the Long, Global Tradition of the Antiblack Gaze

By Kimberly Juanita Brown | February 23, 2024

“What If We Weren’t Afraid to Tell the Hard Truths?” Chris Chalk on Playing James Baldwin

“What If We Weren’t Afraid to Tell the Hard Truths?” Chris Chalk on Playing James Baldwin

“Being Baldwin requires you to be free. It’s mandatory.”

By Dan Sheehan | February 21, 2024

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“Malcolm Still Speaks.” Ibram X. Kendi on George Breitman and the Enduring Legacy of Malcolm X

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The Dark Side of Skin">Translating Race: Bruna Dantas Lobato on Jeferson Tenório’s The Dark Side of Skin

By Bruna Dantas Lobato | February 14, 2024

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By Rae Giana Rashad | February 13, 2024

What Virginia Woolf’s “Dreadnought Hoax” Tells Us About Ourselves

What Virginia Woolf’s “Dreadnought Hoax” Tells Us About Ourselves

Danell Jones Grapples With a Beloved Author’s Casual Racism

By Danell Jones | January 25, 2024

White America Facing Its Ghosts: The Slow Unraveling of a Nation’s Suburbs

White America Facing Its Ghosts: The Slow Unraveling of a Nation’s Suburbs

Benjamin Herold on White Flight, Demographic Shifts, and Coming to Terms With the Racist Policies That Created a Crisis

By Benjamin Herold | January 23, 2024

Black Lives Matter in the Classroom: A Roundtable on Teaching CRT and Disputed Literature Today

Black Lives Matter in the Classroom: A Roundtable on Teaching CRT and Disputed Literature Today

Lynnette Mawhinney Speaks with Cicely Lewis, Christopher Stewart, Shamika J. Simpson, Ahmed Ismail Yusuf, and Holly Y. McGee

By Literary Hub | December 7, 2023

Walden, Freestyled: Reimagining and Reclaiming What It Means to Be Black in Nature

Walden, Freestyled: Reimagining and Reclaiming What It Means to Be Black in Nature

Edward Moreta Jr. on White Western Nature Writing, JID's 29 (Freestyle), and Longing for Black Representation in Wild Settings

By Edward Moreta Jr. | December 4, 2023

How Two Versions of a Family Story Sparked a Writer's Quest for Truth

How Two Versions of a Family Story Sparked a Writer's Quest for Truth

Grace Elizabeth Hale Explores Racial Violence and Individual and Collective Complicity in the American South

By Grace Elizabeth Hale | November 8, 2023

“AI, Ain’t I A Woman?” On the Blindness and Limitations of Artificial Intelligence

“AI, Ain’t I A Woman?” On the Blindness and Limitations of Artificial Intelligence

Joy Buolamwini Exposes the Race and Gender Bias of an Emerging Technology

By Joy Buolamwini | November 1, 2023

What Does “Fascist” Actually Mean?

What Does “Fascist” Actually Mean?

Alberto Toscano on the Cycles of Fascism

By Alberto Toscano | October 25, 2023

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