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December 22, 2015
Gabriel Snyder
New Republic: Best of 2015
December 21, 2015
Esther Breger
J.K. Rowling loves black Hermione, but has yet to address The Cursed Child’s actually scandalous casting decision.
December 17, 2015
Suzy Khimm
Robert E. Lee will no longer be presiding over traffic in New Orleans.
December 15, 2015
PodcastIntersection
Intersection Episode 11: Who’s Afraid of Donald Trump?
Our latest podcast on the 2016 candidates looks at a fear-mongering frontrunner.
December 10, 2015
Caren Morrison
How the Justice System Fails Us After Police Shootings
"... 1,058 people have been killed by police this year to date alone, and most of the time, no legal charges follow."
December 9, 2015
Liliana M. Garces
Race Matters in College Admissions, Now More Than Ever
After Ferguson, the Supreme Court's decision on Fischer v. University of Texas is doubly important.
December 8, 2015
Sarah Weinman
The Case of the Disappearing Black Detective Novel
Hughes Allison was a black mystery writer with a promising future. What went wrong?
December 7, 2015
David H. Gans
Up Next at the Supreme Court: A Challenge to Equality for All Americans
A legal mastermind seeks to gut affirmative action and voting rights by rewriting the Fourteenth Amendment
December 3, 2015
Bijan Stephen
Rebel Without A Pause
Killer Mike and the return of the politically engaged rapper.
December 1, 2015
PodcastIntersection
Intersection Episode 10: Being Melissa Harris-Perry Is a Full-Time Job
November 27, 2015
Mikaela Lefrak, Adam Peck
"Obama will probably go down in history as one of the greatest presidents we’ve had. I just don't think that the issue of race will earn him those kudos."
November 23, 2015
Jamil Smith
Donald Trump’s Recipe for More Tamir Rices
One year after a black Cleveland preteen was killed by a cop, the GOP front-runner is fostering a culture of racial suspicion.
November 18, 2015
Elaine Teng
Who wants a genocidal British general as a school mascot?
November 17, 2015
Megan Pugh
Who Invented the Shimmy?
The history of tap dancing in America is a joyful and troubled story.
November 11, 2015
Jamil Smith
Ben Carson's Plan to Reduce Black Unemployment Is All Wrong
November 3, 2015
PodcastIntersection
Intersection Episode 8: The Loneliness of the Black Republican
November 2, 2015
Matthew Pratt Guterl
Frederick Douglass’s Faith in Photography
How the former slave and abolitionist became the most photographed man in America.
October 14, 2015
Jamil Smith
At the First Democratic Debate, Black Lives Mattered for Exactly One Question
October 2, 2015
Stephen Lurie
The Democratic Party Isn’t as Racist as the GOP. That’s Not Saying Much.
October 2, 2015
Lawrence Goldstone
Citizens United's Legal Roots Lie in the Jim Crow Supreme Court

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