Is ‘American Carnage’ Campaign Gold?
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‘They Stand on the Shoulders of Giants’: The Next Generation to March on Washington
WASHINGTON — As crowds swelled against the backdrop of the Lincoln Memorial on Friday, activists spoke of a generational moment. The Commitment March, held in support...
Malcolm X, Laurence Fishburne and ‘the Theater of Your Mind’
Published in 1965, “The Autobiography of Malcolm X” was not, originally, Malcolm X’s idea. But in 1963, Alex Haley, a writer who would later win...
A Racial Justice March in Washington Hopes to Build on Its 1963 Inspiration
WASHINGTON — Fifty-seven years after the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. galvanized the civil rights movement by outlining a dream of racial equality from...
Why Kamala Harris Matters to Me
When I arrived in the United States in 1984, an Indian graduate student wanting to study African-American history, I was an anomaly. Most of my...
‘This Is Not a Boring History of Nagging Spinsters’
As the story is often told, the path to women’s suffrage began in Seneca Falls, N.Y., in 1848 and ended with the ratification of the...
Taking Protest to the Streets, and the Mayor’s Front Door
SEATTLE — The city was exploring a proposal to cut 50 percent of the police department’s budget to promote racial justice and alternatives to policing...
Voting Isn’t Everything
The Black Lives Matter movement has had significant wins in recent months. Municipalities have removed statues of racists, corporations have changed branding that reinforced racial...
How Has the Electoral College Survived for This Long?
As our revived national conversation on race has made clear, the legacies of slavery and white supremacy run wide and deep in American society and...
John Lewis Believed America Would Survive Trump
In June 2017, I ran into John Lewis outside of Atlanta, where he was campaigning for his former intern Jon Ossoff in the special election...