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Melvin Rogers

Melvin Rogers is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Brown University. He is the author of The Undiscovered Dewey: Religion, Morality, and the Ethos of Democracy.

Articles

Melvin Rogers and Neil Roberts discuss the difficulty of keeping faith in a foundationally anti-Black republic.

Melvin Rogers, Neil Roberts
The rage on display in Minneapolis is not only about police violence. It is also about the country’s utter disregard for the pain of black Americans.
Melvin Rogers

John Dewey cautioned that institutions alone won't save us.

Melvin Rogers

Ta-Nehisi Coates’s latest book is his clearest expression yet of political fatalism. But black activism has always believed in the possibility of change.

Melvin Rogers

To be useful, history has to help us think about who we should become as a nation.

Melvin Rogers

Freedom needs the dignity that only our community can give us.

Melvin Rogers

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