We began to understand why James Baldwin called US history “more beautiful and more terrible than anyone has ever said about it.”
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In the private journals of contemplative thinker Thomas Merton, Sophronia Scott found guidance for how to live in these fraught times.
Donna Haskins defeats the devil
Onaje X. O. Woodbine’s book about a Black woman’s life is a model of ethnographic work that centers the voice of its subject.
A Black scholar’s challenge to White evangelicals
Anthea Butler is clear about the disastrous legacy of racism at the heart of White evangelicalism.
Is privilege real or imagined?
Sociologist Matthew Clair explores race and class at work in the criminal court system.
Merton has been my spiritual companion, but as a Black woman, I have questions for him.
What does the Mississippi Delta sound like in verse?
Philip Kolin’s poetry is about juke joints, bluesmen, mosquitoes, ladybugs, race, faith, and more.
Robert P. Jones says it’s past time to reckon with Christianity’s role in White supremacy
White Too Long envisions the hope that could follow recognition and repentance.
Shattering the myth of the first Thanksgiving
The Wampanoags shared the gifts of the land. The colonists responded with greed and ingratitude.
Reparations would help close the staggering racial wealth gap
William Darity and Kirsten Mullen make the case for finally addressing a great wrong.
The pandemic has made an existing problem worse.
The city felt like it had been sucker punched.
Danusha Laméris’s new book is filled with small kindnesses
A luminous poetry collection marked by joy and sorrow, humor and truth.