January 28, 2014
Excerpted from The Price of Paradise: The Costs of Inequality and a Vision for a More Equitable America by David Dante Troutt (NYU Press, 2014). The impatience that characterizes discussions of race… READ MORE
January 23, 2014
—Sylviane A. Diouf For all its apparent fidelity to the narrative of Solomon Northup, a free black man who was kidnapped and sold into slavery, Steve McQueen’s 12 Years a… READ MORE
November 11, 2013
—Daria Roithmayr In a recent article in The Atlantic, Derek Thompson highlights what many of us already know—that the burden of recent unemployment falls harder on black and Latino workers… READ MORE
November 5, 2013
—Matthew W. Hughey and Gregory S. Parks At a recent Tea Party meeting in Hood County, Texas, Rafael Cruz, the father of Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), made bold statements reeking… READ MORE
October 14, 2013
—Sylviane A. Diouf This week, 1.2 billion Muslims will celebrate Eid-al-Adha, the Feast of Sacrifice. Among them will be millions of believers throughout the Americas. While most people think Middle Eastern… READ MORE
October 8, 2013
Today, we have an excerpt from the 15th anniversary edition of Sylviane A. Diouf’s Servants of Allah: African Muslims Enslaved in the Americas, in which Diouf looks back at the changes in the… READ MORE
August 29, 2013
—Bettye Collier-Thomas and V.P. Franklin The 1963 March on Washington will go down in history as one of the greatest events in the struggle for freedom, justice, and equality in… READ MORE
August 28, 2013
—Hasan Kwame Jeffries The March on Washington had a very specific purpose – to present President Kennedy and Congress with a list of demands designed to secure basic civil and human… READ MORE