June 21, 2020After a clip from Rosedale: The Way It Is, a 1976 Bill Moyers film documenting racial tension in one New York City community, went viral on social media, New York Times reporters tracked down the young Black children — now grownups — who were terrorized by a mob of white children 45 years ago.
June 17, 2020On Juneteenth, America’s Other Independence Day and America After George Floyd
June 12, 2020Elite media still hasn’t figured out how to cover the Trump presidency.
June 5, 2020I’m a Navy officer. I’m a nonprofit CEO. I’m a black man in America.
June 4, 2020Protests continued for a tenth day today in the face of ongoing police brutality. That statement is going to anger some readers, but hoo, boy, the images of the police attacking peaceful protesters and journalists are going to be in textbooks in a few years, and our great grandchildren are going to ask how on earth this happened.
June 2, 2020"I need to be clearer and louder in our community about what I believe our school is for. The purpose of our school isn’t simply to develop college and career ready students. I believe in my heart that developing citizens, with a clear and purposeful focus on social justice, is part of who we can and must be. But I need to say that and I need to say it loudly and publicly."
April 7, 2020Early Data Shows African Americans Have Contracted and Died of Coronavirus at an Alarming Rate
October 9, 2018This is the boldest, bravest and most bracing book about politics that I have read this year.
December 8, 2017Before he was a Supreme Court justice, Thurgood Marshall was a civil rights lawyer battling the same forces that confront our justice system today.
November 16, 2017Professors are often lightning rods, but many see a new menace to academic freedom in recent physical threats against faculty members who speak out on race and other issues.
