racism
The coronavirus pandemic’s unequal burden on African Americans
A plague is being visited on all of us, but not evenly.
How mainline Protestants got involved in urban renewal
Mark Wild complicates the conventional account of postwar white flight.
An anthropologist explores the dangers of being pregnant while black
Using case studies, Dána-Ain Davis shows how medical racism hurts black women.
A precise, devastating portrayal of white wokeness
Kiley Reid’s novel about race, class, and good intentions that miss the point
Examining whiteness through “reparative writing”
Jess Row asks what happens when alienation turns to rage.
How did American racism get to this point?
Joel Goza explores America’s addiction to racism and racialized poverty.
Hope, oppression, and Ta-Nehisi Coates
Can Christian hope survive the onslaught against black life?
Taking implicit racial bias seriously
Jennifer Eberhardt insists that personal prejudice is deeply embedded, politically potent, and ultimately beatable.
The kinds of stories Toni Morrison told
No one has done more to transform the language for thinking about America’s racial past.
Reparations is a spiritual issue
No full reparation for slavery can ever be made. We should try anyway.
What racism is—and how to organize against it
People already engaged in conversations about racial justice may find Ibram Kendi's analysis surprising.
A black pastor writes to the white church about its complicity in oppression
Lenny Duncan’s letter is full of hope and fury, love and lament—like Paul’s epistles.
Sin and grace in public discourse
“We’ve lost the capacity to talk about the universality of brokenness—and belovedness.”
Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah’s short stories reveal the insanity and violence of our society
Evoking the murders of unarmed black men, this collection is meant to appall us.
Tracing the racist history of the death penalty in Georgia
R.J. Maratea argues that lynching declined when white people began to realize that the courtroom would work just as well.
Telling the truth about racism
The story of James Thompson and David Simpson is one of many that cry out for an acknowledgment of wrongs done.