Working through collective sin
Susan Neiman considers how Americans might learn from Germany.
racism
Examining whiteness through “reparative writing”
Jess Row asks what happens when alienation turns to rage.
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.
No one has done more to transform the language for thinking about America’s racial past.
No full reparation for slavery can ever be made. We should try anyway.
What racism is—and how to organize against it
People already engaged in conversations about racial justice may find Ibram Kendi's analysis surprising.
A black pastor writes to the white church about its complicity in oppression
Lenny Duncan’s letter is full of hope and fury, love and lament—like Paul’s epistles.
“We’ve lost the capacity to talk about the universality of brokenness—and belovedness.”
Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah’s short stories reveal the insanity and violence of our society
Evoking the murders of unarmed black men, this collection is meant to appall us.
Tracing the racist history of the death penalty in Georgia
R.J. Maratea argues that lynching declined when white people began to realize that the courtroom would work just as well.
The story of James Thompson and David Simpson is one of many that cry out for an acknowledgment of wrongs done.
Tressie McMillan Cottom asks who black women’s voices are for
Cottom interrogates her own story loudly enough for others to hear themselves in it.