Bernardine Watson: Freedom
the colored hotel was named for Crispus Attucks
a runaway slave, and the first man to die
for the America dream
Maria J. Stephan: Achieving a Multiracial Democracy
King understood that no single approach would be sufficient to combat the interconnected evils of racism, economic exploitation and militarism.
Clarence Lusane: The Decline of Democracy
White Christian Nationalism now forms the basis of the Republican Party and is now targeting every facet of public life.
Matthew J. Parker: The Misplaced Paean to the South
Southern disdain for centralized authority is an extension of the post-Civil War rebellion against federal efforts to impart a level of equality upon the scarred backs of freed slaves.
Steve Fraser: The Trump Supreme Court Is Nothing New
Has the Trump Supreme Court gone rogue? Certainly, its recent judicial blitzkrieg has run roughshod over a century’s worth of settled law.
Michael Simms: My debut novel is being launched tonight
This evening the rap artist and filmmaker Christian Nowlin will be helping me launch my debut novel BICYCLES OF THE GODS: A DIVINE COMEDY.
Baron Wormser: The Mythos of the Gun 
Beneath the easy-going, have-a-nice day American exterior is some serious anti-social feeling that does not wish anyone who is somehow different a nice day, that wishes them a bad day, a you-shouldn’t-exist day, an I-would-kill-you-if-I-could day.
Terry Blackhawk: My Father Goes to Sunday School
What are you doing here?
an elder asked, a deacon perhaps, or prayer leader.
Patricia Jabbeh Wesley: A Dirge for Our Murdered Sons
Oh, America, how many tears do you want
before you stop killing our sons?
Terry Blackhawk: Cambridge, Massachusetts — 1951
the boy with curlier hair and light brown skin
over by the windows and Roland, who was darker,
with short cut hair, whose name I’ve carried all these years
Abby Zimet: On Moms For Liberty and Other Racist Fascist Vigilantes
Earlier this month, the United States was for the first time demoted to the status of a “backsliding” democracy by global think tank International IDEA, which cited a “visible deterioration” of our civil liberties and checks on government indicating “serious problems with the fundamentals of democracy.”
Video: My Story of Love and Loss as a Transracial Adoptee
A mysterious tattoo on her forearm was all that linked Sara Jones, adopted as a child by white parents, to her South Korean origins.
Daniel Burston: Remembering the Tree of Life Massacre
Robert Bowers was convinced that the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, which met regularly at the Tree of Life that day, was taking money from Jewish liberals to bring refugees in the United States to destroy America.
Sonali Kolhatkar: Beyond Cancel Culture | How to Hold Each Other Accountable—With Love
‘We can’t go around punishing people in the present for the trauma that was inflicted on us in the past.’
Vox Populi 