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Where Do We Go From Here: A Fundraiser for Black Lives

A transcript of our panel discussion on the Black Lives Matter movement. 

Elizabeth Hinton, Robin D. G. Kelley, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Brandon M. Terry, Cornel West

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The Racist Politics of the English Language

How we went from “racist” to “racially tinged.”

Lawrence B. Glickman

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What White Supremacists Know

The violent theft of land and capital is at the core of the U.S. experiment: the U.S. military got its start in the wars against Native Americans.

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

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The Origins of Birthright Citizenship

The Fourteenth Amendment was shaped by freed blacks’ insistence that everyone born in the United States deserved full citizenship.

Robert L. Tsai

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Racism and the Wisconsin Idea

Scott Walker and Paul Ryan broke from Wisconsin’s long progressive history. But as liberals search for what went wrong, they must not ignore the state’s legacy of systemic racism and inequity. 

S. Ani Mukherji

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When the Klan Came to Town

History reminds us that firm and sometimes violent opposition to racists is a time-honored American tradition.

Michael McCanne

Arts in Society, Race

Sorry, Not Sorry

Boots Riley's new film roasts racial capitalism and issues an unapologetic call for revolution.

Robin D. G. Kelley

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MLK Now

Canonization has prevented a reckoning with the substance of King’s intellectual, ethical, and political commitments.

Brandon M. Terry

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How Slavery Inspired Modern Business Management

By “dangling the carrot” to improve worker productivity, businesses are taking a page from slavery’s playbook.

Caitlin C. Rosenthal

Law & Justice, Race

Hoverboarding While Black

In the era of digital neighborhoods, social networks embolden a new kind of racial surveillance.

Clarence Harlan Orsi

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White Supremacy Has Always Been Mainstream

“Very fine people”—fathers, husbands, and sons, as well as mothers, wives, and daughters—have always been central to the work of white supremacy.

Stephen Kantrowitz

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Black AfterLives Matter

Second chances are the currency of white supremacy. To be white is to colonize the afterlife.

Ruha Benjamin

Arts in Society, Race

Janelle Monáe for President

What Afrofuturism can teach us about surviving Trump.

Christopher Lebron

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