Featured Have We Entered America’s Third Era of Reconstruction? By Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharris / The Nation The racist and violent backlash to Reconstruction was…

Featured Why Juneteenth Matters. It was black Americans who delivered on Lincoln’s promise of “a new birth of freedom.” By Jamelle Bouie / NYT 

Featured The Demand of Freedom. The United States’ first civil rights movement. By Kellie Carter Jackson / The Nation

Featured Critical race theory is a lens. Here are 11 ways looking through it might refine your view of history. By Eliott C. McLaughlin /…

Featured Analysis: Obama and Trump intensify their battle over democracy. By Stephen Collinson / CNN 

Featured ‘Nobody Wants White Kids to Feel Bad About Their Race.’ By Conor Friedersdorf / The Atlantic

Featured Jim Crow Killed Voting Rights for Generations. Now the GOP Is Repeating History. By Ari Berman / Mother Jones 

Featured The Republican Party, Racial Hypocrisy, and the 1619 Project. By Jelani Cobb / The New Yorker

Featured The Party of White Grievance Has Never Cared About Democracy. By Steve Phillips / The Nation

Featured America’s right-wing political monsters are real — and they are coming for you.  By Chauncey Devega / Salon

Featured Let’s pause to mark ‘Brown v. Board of Education’ — and its lessons for our time. By Colbert I. King / Wash Post

Featured How to lose America: The death of democracy looks nearer than ever. By Elayne Clift / Salon

Featured Race and White Supremacy in American Policing: An Investigation. By Steve Volk / Rolling Stone

Featured Richard Wright’s Novel About Racist Police Violence Was Rejected in 1941; It Has Just Been Published. By Amy Goodman / Democracy Now

Featured How civil rights attorney Ben Crump forged his own path. By AP and NBC News

Featured The ‘Mississippi Plan’ to keep Blacks from voting in 1890: ‘We came here to exclude the Negro.’ By Ronald G. Shafer / Wash Post 

Featured Tucker Carlson, the Chauvin verdict and the burden of “white civilization.” By Chauncey Devega / Salon

Featured How to confront systemic racism? Heed the call of Martin Luther King. By Michael Gerson / Wash Post

Featured Chauvin Verdict: Convicted in the Killing of George Floyd. By David A. Graham / The Atlantic

Featured Minnesota Is One of the Best Places to Live in America. Unless You’re Black. By Samuel L. Myers Jr. / NYT

Featured Republicans are out of the mainstream on race. By William Saletan / Slate

Featured “Exterminate All the Brutes,” Reviewed: A Vast, Agonizing History of White Supremacy. By Richard Brody / The New Yorker

Featured If It’s Not Jim Crow, What Is It? Georgia’s new voting law has to be understood in its own peculiar historical context. By Jamelle Bouie…

Featured Don Lemon Breaks Down Sobbing During Cornel West’s Searing Commentary on George Floyd and Police Violence. By Tommy Christopher / Mediaite

Featured Don’t blame Facebook: How Fox News became the beating heart of the white nationalist movement. By Heather Digby Parton / Salon

Featured These two photos from the Georgia Capitol reveal what the state’s new voting law is all about. By John Blake / CNN

Featured The Capitol Riots and the Eternal Fantasy of a Racially Virtuous America. By Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw / The New Republic

Featured U.S. Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield gives powerful speech at U.N.: “I know the ugly face of racism.” By Pamela Falk / CBS News