Opinion
What 2021 is showing us about Black lives mattering. By Richard J. Reddick / CNN
The Violence of Latinx Erasure Starts With Undercounting Victims. By Robert Lovato / The Nation
What Thurgood Marshall Taught Me. By Stephen L. Carter / NYT
Could genocide really happen here? Leading scholar says America is on “high alert.” By David Masciotra / Salon
Republicans want “18 more months of chaos” — followed by the end of democracy. By Chauncey Devega / Salon
What it will take to defeat the GOP’s voter suppression schemes. By Colbert I. King / Wash Post
How the White Press Wrote Off Black America. By Brent Staples / NYT
How and why Loudoun County became the face of the nation’s culture wars. By Hannah Natanson / Wash Post
Biden’s infrastructure bill — no matter how “bipartisan” — will not defeat fascism. By Chauncey Devega / Salon
US Black and Latino communities often have low vaccination rates – but blaming vaccine hesitancy misses the mark. By Elisa J. Sobo, Diana Schow and Stephanie McClure / The Conversation
For Native peoples, an apology never spoken is no apology at all. By Negiel Bigpond and Sam Brownback / Wash Post
Trump’s Cult of Animosity Shows No Sign of Letting Up. By Thomas B. Edsall / NYT
Schools Must Teach About Racism. By Glenn Sacks / The Progressive
Bill Cosby’s crimes illuminate the fault lines between generations of Black women. By Lonnae O’Neal / The Undefeated
Critical race theory: What it is and what it isn’t. By David Miguel Gray / The Conversation
Tucker Carlson prepares white nationalists for war: Don’t ignore the power of his rhetoric. By Chauncey Devega / Salon
Joe Biden and the Age of Blaxhaustion. By Elie Mystal / The Nation
Dear Kamala Harris: It’s a Trap! By Christina Greer / NYT
Black Valedictorians and the Toxic Trope of Black Exceptionalism. By Samuel Getachew / NYT
The War on History Is a War on Democracy. By Timothy Snyder / NYT
Who’s afraid of critical race theory? Not the students in my classes. by Vincent Jungkunz / Wash Post
Vanderbilt professor explains how ‘White rage’ is ‘boiling in the blood’ of many Republicans. By Alex Henderson / AlterNet
Why Joe Manchin’s voting rights proposal works for Stacey Abrams. By Keith Boykin / CNN
‘The Tea Party to the 10th power’: Trumpworld bets big on critical race theory. By Theodoric Meyer, Maggie Severns and Meridith McGraw / Politico
Our New Postracial Myth. By Ibram X Kendi / The Atlantic
Taking on racism and crime should be the same fight. By E.J. Dionne Jr. / Wash Post
