Mamdani’s strategically claimed blackness
When it might have given him a leg up at Columbia, he checked the ‘black’ box
When it might have given him a leg up at Columbia, he checked the ‘black’ box
Somewhere along the way, we began confusing justice with revenge
A new day is dawning in academia
Pam Bondi announced the DoJ will no longer force fire and police departments to hire underqualified candidates into their ranks
In Necessary Trouble the historian and former president of Harvard has given us a clear-eyed account of a vexed era
King: A Life is the first comprehensive biography of the black civil rights hero to appear in more than thirty years
Race-baiters are scraping the bottom of the coffee pot
Confident and schooled in self-esteem, they seek to redeem the unredeemable
His supposed anti-racism record is an empty fabrication, like so much of his presidency
The Biden administration seeks to ban states from banning school districts from banning unmasked faces
If there is white privilege, millions of whites don’t experience it
American historian David Garrow discusses his findings