Race

The late South African intellectual and activist—imprisoned on Robben Island alongside Nelson Mandela—fought for a world without race and class.

Jeanne Theoharis speaks with Margaret Burnham on her work in reconstructing Jim Crow terror, within and outside the law.

Fifty years ago, the American Indian Movement occupied the site of a historic massacre. They won real gains in the face of brutal counterinsurgency tactics.

A conversation with Dan Berger and veteran activists Zoharah Simmons and Michael Simmons on the origins of Black Power and the work of coalition building.

N'Kosi Oates speaks with J.T. Roane about Philadelphia's spatial politics and resistance to racial containment.

Daniel Boyarin makes the seemingly paradoxical proposal that in order to end Zionism, Jewishness should be defined as nationhood.

Thelonious Monk lost (and found) in Paris.

On violence and the possibility of solidarities in America.

Family policing is deeply unjust. The nuclear family is too.

What does it mean for those living in the diaspora to remain attached to the land they left behind?

Revisiting When Affirmative Action Was White, nearly two decades on.

Institutional reform is no match for pervasive structural inequality.

When Desmond Tutu reconciled African theology and Black theology.

In her scholarship, mentoring, and activism, Farah Jasmine Griffin brings a praxis of radical love to an unequal academy.

Historian Gerald Horne has developed a grand theory of U.S. history as a series of devastating backlashes to progress—right down to the present day.

Robin D. G. Kelley on the midterm elections.

A posthumous collection tracks Noel Ignatiev’s commitment to class struggle, abolishing whiteness, and finding a vision of freedom in the minds and actions of working people.

The recent electoral success of a party with Nazi origins must be understood as part of the long history of white Swedes’ desire for racial homogeneity.

Harm reduction strategies have the best chance of stopping this disease.

Freedom means a world where how I parent is simply mundane rather than overburdened with meaning. 

Draconian individual punishment distracts from systemic change and reinforces the cruelest and most racist system of incarceration on the planet.

In her new book, historian Kelly Lytle Hernández makes the case for why U.S. history only makes sense when told as a binational story.

Robin D. G. Kelley published his pathbreaking history of the Black radical imagination in 2002. Where are we two decades later?