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Baldwin vs. Buckley: A Debate We Shouldn't Need, As Important As Ever

Gabrielle Bellot on America's Foundational Divide

By Gabrielle Bellot | July 20, 2017

Howard Zinn on Henry David Thoreau and When to Resist an Immoral State

“The law will never make men free; it is men who make the law free.”

By Howard Zinn | July 12, 2017

A Tourist in My Own Book

A Midwesterner Writes the Caribbean

By Rebecca Entel | June 22, 2017

Race is the Original American Fiction

On Reuniting with The Descendants of Thomas Jefferson's Slaves

By Andrew Mitchell Davenport | April 13, 2017

Don't Call Slaves "Immigrants"

The truth requires specificity that is sometimes violent and ugly

By Dionne Ford | March 31, 2017

Along the Old Underground Railroad, One Photo at a Time

Jeanine Michna-Bales’s incredible nighttime images of the Underground Railroad

By Allison Wright | January 13, 2017

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By Christina Sharpe | November 11, 2016

A Jarring Choice at the National Museum of African-American History

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James Baldwin: The World is White No Longer

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By James Baldwin | August 2, 2016

America Was Never Class-Free

On Foundational Myths and Deep-Rooted Inequality

By Nancy Isenberg | June 21, 2016

In Charleston, One Year Later

Shani Gilchrist Walks the Streets of Her Complicated City

By Shani Gilchrist | June 17, 2016

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On the 40th Anniversary of Alex Haley's Classic

By Nikki Giovanni | May 20, 2016

Charlotte Brontë May Have Started the Fire, But Jean Rhys Burned Down the House

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By Bridget Read | April 21, 2016

How Teju Cole Helped Me Make Peace With the Nigerian Scam Artist

Ijeoma Oluo on Reconciling her Nigerian-American Identity

By Ijeoma Oluo | April 15, 2016

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