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This Country Needs a Truth and Reconciliation Process on Violence Against African Americans

What response can disrupt patterns set by centuries of racism?

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The Working-Class Wounds Hidden Behind Trump Voters’ Racism

If we listen carefully to Trump’s supporters, we can hear their desire for progressive policies.

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I Assumed It Was Racism—It Was Patriarchy

Why are some women more invisible than others? We need to start opening our eyes.

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The Choice of Patriotism

Inclusive patriotism is our national creed. It is born of hope.

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Europe Goes American, and That Ain’t Good

The same racial, religious, and ethnic tensions that have long divided America are now unraveling Northern Europe’s bonds of solidarity.

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A Tale of Two Zip Codes

What determines how long we live? Inequality—it even reduces the lifespan of our society’s “winners.”

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Nixon’s War on Drugs Began as Strategy to Attack ‘Antiwar Left and Black People’

Amid new global discussion about ending prohibition, a buried admission by a former presidential aide.

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How Superman Busted the KKK

With the Ku Klux Klan gaining popularity, he successfully infiltrated the group in order to divulge its motivations and rituals.

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Evoking the Mulatto: Mixed Identity in America

Created by Lindsay C. Harris, Evoking the Mulatto is a transmedia project exploring black mixed identity in the 21st century through the lens of the history of racial classification in the United States.

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White Nationalist Group Supports Trump, ‘Hitler Without the Mustache’

America’s extremist white supremacist groups are supporting Donald Trump’s candidacy for the presidency.