racism
Working through collective sin
Susan Neiman considers how Americans might learn from Germany.
by Chris Hammer
Examining whiteness through “reparative writing”
Jess Row asks what happens when alienation turns to rage.
by Amy Frykholm
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?
A school of death
Colson Whitehead dramatizes a horrifying piece of historical reality.
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.
by Nibs Stroupe
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.
by Tim Brown
Sin and grace in public discourse
“We’ve lost the capacity to talk about the universality of brokenness—and belovedness.”
David Heim interviews Serene Jones
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.
by Amy Frykholm
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.
by Chris Hammer
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.
Tressie McMillan Cottom asks who black women’s voices are for
Cottom interrogates her own story loudly enough for others to hear themselves in it.
Put Ijeoma Oluo and Crystal Fleming on your antiracism reading list
Two new books offer an education—with grace and humor.
A white, southern pastor takes a hard look at the sin of racism
“It’s not that Southerners don’t get racial issues. We just don’t get them right.”
Amy Frykholm interviews Robert W. Lee
The Best of Enemies is a movie centered on one white man’s conversion
Personal conversion is part of social change, but we can’t end our stories there.
Antiracism is everyone’s work
“No one is born with racist ideas. People consume them, as others produce them to justify racist policies.”
Celeste Kennel-Shank interviews Ibram X. Kendi
Working within neighborhoods to end mass incarceration
"By building social capacity, communities can respond to their own issues rather than rely on responses from the criminal justice system."
Elizabeth Palmer interviews Leon Sawh