Lori Lightfoot’s New Press Policy Is All Too Convenient Lori Lightfoot’s New Press Policy Is All Too Convenient
The media’s lack of diversity is a problem. Limiting its access to people in power won’t fix it.
May 28, 2021 / LeAlan M. Jones
An Afropessimist on the Year Since George Floyd Was Murdered An Afropessimist on the Year Since George Floyd Was Murdered
Notes of a (Minneapolis) native son.
May 27, 2021 / Feature / Frank Wilderson
The History of Publishing Is a History of Racial Inequality The History of Publishing Is a History of Racial Inequality
A conversation with Richard Jean So about combining data and literary analysis to understand how the publishing industry came to be dominated by white writers.
May 27, 2021 / Q&A / Rosemarie Ho
Black Lives Matter Black Lives Matter
What Ahmaud Arbery could have been.
May 26, 2021 / OppArt / Keith Henry Brown
Keith Ellison: On the Other Side of Criminal Justice Reform and Transformation Is a Safer Society Keith Ellison: On the Other Side of Criminal Justice Reform and Transformation Is a Safer Society
The attorney general who organized the prosecution of Derek Chauvin for murdering George Floyd makes the case for police accountability.
May 26, 2021 / John Nichols
The Party of White Grievance Has Never Cared About Democracy The Party of White Grievance Has Never Cared About Democracy
From the Democrats of the Civil War era to the Republicans of the Trump years, the white party has always posed the greatest threat to our political system.
May 26, 2021 / Steve Phillips
The History the Japanese Government Is Trying to Erase The History the Japanese Government Is Trying to Erase
Failing to teach what the wartime state did only emboldens the forces of misogyny and racism.
May 26, 2021 / Chelsea Szendi Schieder
In the Wake of George Floyd In the Wake of George Floyd
One year ago, George Floyd was murdered by Minneapolis police. What began as a street corner memorial grew into a semiautonomous zone that is still standing.
May 25, 2021 / Anna DalCortivo and Alyssa Oursler
A Few Words for the Firing Squad A Few Words for the Firing Squad
A new South Carolina law forces people on death row to choose between firing squad and electric chair if lethal injection drugs aren’t available.
May 24, 2021 / Alexandra Klein and Brandon Hasbrouck
The Color of Fear The Color of Fear
Was George Floyd allowed to be afraid? Why do Black folk have to be automatons to make sure police don’t read our “flight” responses as “fight” responses?
May 24, 2021 / Joshua Adams