The following list, which dates to the 2016 election, is a collection of excellent journalism about an unprecedented presidency, written in an extraordinary time.
December 18, 2020Driving the industry’s confrontations with racism and other forms of institutional discrimination are BIPOC and movement journalists, working in tandem with communities that have long been trivialized in the news.
September 15, 2017In The Making of a Racist, professor Charles B. Dew describes his evolution from a “young Confederate” to an outspoken critic of racism.
July 28, 2017The “Silent Protest Parade” was the first mass African-American demonstration of its kind and a watershed moment in the history of the civil rights movement.
May 18, 2017Part of understanding how systemic racism works today is to understand how the extraction of wealth from people of color is part of the business model of some large corporations.
July 12, 2016In a speech delivered in 1968, Robert F. Kennedy reflected on riots and violence in the streets and talked about the wrongs that Americans, nearly 50 years later, still must right.
September 28, 2015The senator spoke at the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the US Senate last night about what Martin Luther King, Jr. called "the inseparable twin of racial injustice" -- economic injustice.
