Featured Republicans Hate Voting Rights Because They Threaten White Power. By Elie Mystal / The Nation

Featured Our ‘Racial Reckoning’ Is Turning Out to Be a White Lie. By Kali Holloway / The Nation

Featured We need Nelson Mandela’s example more than ever today. How the South African leader’s radical empathy can help the US today. By John Blake…

Featured Could genocide really happen here? Leading scholar says America is on “high alert.”  By David Masciotra / Salon

Featured How the White Press Wrote Off Black America. By Brent Staples / NYT

Featured Trump’s Cult of Animosity Shows No Sign of Letting Up. By Thomas B. Edsall / NYT

Featured Frederick Douglass’s 4th of July speech still burns with his spirit. By Javonte Anderson / USA Today

Featured The War on History Is a War on Democracy. By Timothy Snyder / NYT

Featured The Harlem Cultural Festival footage is getting wider recognition in the new ‘Summer of Soul’ documentary. By Farrell Evans / The Undefeated

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