racism
Is the destruction of monuments a rewriting of history?
Holding in tension our achievements and failures as a nation
Talking to white kids about what whiteness means
Three children’s books to help start the conversation
Why are so many white Christians suddenly standing up for racial justice?
It might help that our pews aren’t available to sit in and pray.
The coronavirus lockdown was doomed before the mass protests began
Its demise came from the same system that killed George Floyd and Breonna Taylor.
James Baldwin reminds us not to be surprised by this
Facing the “intolerable trouble” of antiblack violence
Caught up in God
Early on, I got caught up in the logic of the Spirit—and in the steady beat of black life.
Ahmaud Arbery’s lynching begs America to respond
What would it take to stop seeing neighbors as intruders and threats?
The coronavirus pandemic’s unequal burden on African Americans
A plague is being visited on all of us, but not evenly.
How mainline Protestants got involved in urban renewal
Mark Wild complicates the conventional account of postwar white flight.
An anthropologist explores the dangers of being pregnant while black
Using case studies, Dána-Ain Davis shows how medical racism hurts black women.
by Justin List
A precise, devastating portrayal of white wokeness
Kiley Reid’s novel about race, class, and good intentions that miss the point
by Rachel Pyle
Working through collective sin
Susan Neiman considers how Americans might learn from Germany.
by Chris Hammer
Examining whiteness through “reparative writing”
Jess Row asks what happens when alienation turns to rage.
by Amy Frykholm
How did American racism get to this point?
Joel Goza explores America’s addiction to racism and racialized poverty.
Hope, oppression, and Ta-Nehisi Coates
Can Christian hope survive the onslaught against black life?
A school of death
Colson Whitehead dramatizes a horrifying piece of historical reality.
Taking implicit racial bias seriously
Jennifer Eberhardt insists that personal prejudice is deeply embedded, politically potent, and ultimately beatable.