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Civil-Rights Protests Have Never Been Popular
Activists can’t persuade their contemporaries—they’re aiming at the next generation.
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The Atlantic
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October 3, 2017
The Lost Cause Rides Again
The prospective series takes as its premise an ugly truth that black Americans are forced to live every day: What if the Confederacy wasn’t wholly defeated?
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Ta-Nehisi Coates
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The Atlantic
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August 4, 2017
Hillary Clinton Goes Back to the Dunning School
How do you diagnose the problem of racism in America without understanding its actual history?
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Ta-Nehisi Coates
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The Atlantic
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January 26, 2016
The Black Family in the Age of Mass Incarceration
Politicians are suddenly eager to disown failed policies on American prisons, but they have failed to reckon with the history.
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Ta-Nehisi Coates
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The Atlantic
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September 15, 2015
When Malcolm X Met Robert Penn Warren
An excerpt from a discussion between Malcolm X and Robert Penn Warren on guilt and innocence.
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Ta-Nehisi Coates
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The Atlantic
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August 28, 2015
What This Cruel War Was Over
The meaning of the Confederate flag is best discerned in the words of those who bore it.
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Ta-Nehisi Coates
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The Atlantic
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June 22, 2015
The Case for Reparations
Until we reckon with our compounding moral debts, America will never be whole.
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Ta-Nehisi Coates
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The Atlantic
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June 23, 2014
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Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Narratives of Freedom
In Coates's debut novel, he sets out to recover the struggles for emancipation that have been lost to the past.
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The Nation
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October 29, 2019
The Afro-Pessimist Temptation
An examination of the tragic echoes of Reconstruction-era politics following Obama's presidency.
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Darryl Pinckney
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New York Review of Books
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May 23, 2018
Between Obama and Coates
Because both thinkers neglect political economy, they end up promoting a politics that is responsible for the nation's growing inequality.
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Touré F. Reed
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Catalyst
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March 12, 2018
Coates and West in Jackson
America loves pitting black intellectuals against each other, but today's activists need both Coates and West.
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Robin D. G. Kelley
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Boston Review
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December 22, 2017
Keeping the Faith
Ta-Nehisi Coates' latest book preaches political fatalism. But black activism has always believed in the possibility of change.
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Melvin L. Rogers
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Boston Review
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November 1, 2017
Idylls of the Liberal
The American dreams of Mark Lilla and Ta-Nehisi Coates.
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Asad Haider
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Viewpoint Magazine
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September 11, 2017
Race and the American Creed
Recovering black radicalism.
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Aziz Rana
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n+1
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December 7, 2015
Bringing It Back to Baldwin
Joel Rhone reviews Eddie Glaude Jr.’s Begin Again: James Baldwin’s America and its Urgent Lessons for Our Own
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Joel Rhone
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The Drift
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October 21, 2020
What White Catholics Owe Black Americans
It's time to acknowledge that White Catholics’ American dream was built on profits plundered from black women, men, and children.
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Matthew J. Cressler
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Slate
on
September 2, 2016
The Thirteenth Amendment and a Reparations Program
The amendment, which brought an end to slavery in the U.S., could be used to begin a national debate on reparations.
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Ramsin Canon
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U.S. Intellectual History Blog
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July 12, 2014
Pulitzer Prize-Winning Edda L. Fields-Black on the Combahee River Raid
Harriet Tubman’s revolutionary Civil War raid and the power of preserving Black history in the face of political pushback.
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Janell Hobson
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Ms. Magazine
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June 2, 2025
The Perfectionist Tradition
The African American perfectionists offered “faith” instead of “hope”—emphasizing the struggle to realize a vision of justice.
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William P. Jones
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Dissent
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February 6, 2024
The Misunderstood Visionary Behind the Black Panther Party
Huey P. Newton has been mythologized and maligned since his murder 34 years ago. His family and friends offer an intimate look inside his life and mind.
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Jenny Rothenberg Gritz
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Smithsonian
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August 22, 2023
The Spirit of Appomattox
Why is Shelby Foote's Civil War subject to so much contemporary debate?
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Jonathan Clarke
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The Hedgehog Review
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March 1, 2023
The Tyranny Of The Map: Rethinking Redlining
In trying to understand one of the key aspects of structural racism, have we constructed a new moralistic story that obscures more than it illuminates?
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Robert Gioielli
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The Metropole
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November 3, 2022
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Redlining is Only Part of the Story
An annotated collection of resources from the Bunk archive that help explain the long history of housing discrimination.
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Julian Maxwell Hayter
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October 5, 2022
Endowed by Slavery
Harvard made headlines by announcing that it would devote $100 million to remedying “the harms of the university’s ties to slavery.”
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Andrew Delbanco
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New York Review of Books
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June 2, 2022
What is Left of History?
Joan Scott’s "On the Judgment of History" asks us to imagine the past without the idea of progress. But what gets left out in the process?
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David A. Bell
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The Nation
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May 2, 2022
The Supernatural and the Mundane in Depictions of the Underground Railroad
Navigating the line between historical records and mystic imagery to understand the Underground Railroad.
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Andrew K. Diemer
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The Panorama
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April 4, 2022
Whistlin' D ----.
Why songs of the southland are really northern.
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William Hogeland
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Hogeland's Bad History
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December 15, 2021
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