Christopher Lebron

Chris Lebron is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Johns Hopkins University and author of The Making Of Black Lives Matter: A Brief History of an Idea.

I Don’t Have to Forgive Joe Biden

We should condemn the president-elect’s record on race, but that does not foreclose hope for his administration.

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What Happened to Kanye West?

Kanye represents what happens when the liberties of artistic genius are confused for political insight.

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Janelle Monáe for President

What Afrofuturism can teach us about surviving Trump

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Black Panther Is Not the Movie We Deserve

The movie, unique for its Black star power, depends on a shocking devaluation of Black American men.

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What Totalitarianism Looks Like

Five signs of a totalitarian regime.

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Lynching by Any Other Name

Prosecutors are corrupting the intent of lynching laws.

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Coping with Trauma

The use of the language of trauma contains an element of strategy.

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The Invisibility of Black Women

Black women too often go missing—from civil rights history and from our lives.

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I’m Fine How I Am

A response to Randall Kennedy’s defense of respectability politics.

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Christopher Lebron Response to Ferguson

Loury wants us to be reasonable when the situation is not.

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