Talking to white kids about what whiteness means
Three children’s books to help start the conversation
racism
It might help that our pews aren’t available to sit in and pray.
Its demise came from the same system that killed George Floyd and Breonna Taylor.
Facing the “intolerable trouble” of antiblack violence
Early on, I got caught up in the logic of the Spirit—and in the steady beat of black life.
What would it take to stop seeing neighbors as intruders and threats?
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.
A precise, devastating portrayal of white wokeness
Kiley Reid’s novel about race, class, and good intentions that miss the point
Working through collective sin
Susan Neiman considers how Americans might learn from Germany.
Examining whiteness through “reparative writing”
Jess Row asks what happens when alienation turns to rage.