The Atlantic
January 10, 2019
Any politician who is overfunding law and order, border security, and wars on terror—and underfunding medical research—is not keeping us safe.
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The Guardian
December 6, 2018
Opposing racism is not the same as building an antiracist society. Our new series, Antiracism and America, looks at the structures that sustain a racist society - and how we dismantle them.
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The Atlantic
October 2018 Issue
In 1858, Abraham Lincoln warned that America could not remain “half slave and half free.” Today, the country remains divided by racism—and the threat is as existential as it was before the Civil War.
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The Atlantic
June 28, 2018
Political moderates who counsel against confrontation and warn of incivility would abandon the tools that have changed America for the better.
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The Atlantic
May 14, 2018
Communities of color are actually disproportionately likely to report crimes—it’s police themselves who have maintained a corrosive culture of silence.
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The Atlantic
March 20, 2018
They’re both blamed for predisposing their members to violent acts, but they’ve sparked radically different public-policy responses.
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Underlying much of the media’s fumbled white supremacist coverage is an enduring assumption about where racist ideas comes from: the poor, the uneducated, and the hateful. Dr. Ibram X. Kendi is the founding director of the Anti-Racist Research and Policy Center at American University and author of “Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America.” He tells The Guardian US's Lois Beckett that this prevailing narrative is centuries old and completely backwards.
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The New York Times
January 13, 2018
The antiracist lives by the opposite heartbeat, one that rarely and irregularly sounds in America — the heartbeat of confession.
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Washington Post
November 13, 2017
The White House's fumbling about slavery and the Civil War fits a long pattern in American politics.
The racial story is often told from assuming lips.