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Decades of progress toward school desegregation are at risk as President-elect Joe Biden prepares to... Read More
You were warned about this first in July. Now, it's happening. On Sunday, the federal Advisory Commi... Read More
In 1980, a presidential candidate pledged to appoint the first woman to the Supreme Court. "It is ti... Read More
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Identity politics seems to be sticking around. Important election results seemed to refute the notio... Read More
Several years ago, Project Baltimore began an investigation of Baltimore's school system. What they ... Read More
Some of the confusion in thinking about matters of race stems from the ambiguity in the terms that w... Read More
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Every single American should want the recount process to play out so the states can properly certify... Read More
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I was a teenager, growing up in the Richard Allen housing project of North Philadelphia, when Emmett... Read More
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When Amy Coney Barrett was nominated to a judgeship on the U.S. Court of Appeals in 2017, Sen. Diann... Read More
There are bad cops. No doubt. We have seen them on television, as well we should. If most cops were ... Read More
Is there any clearer sign of how privileged a society is than the disproportionate amount of time th... Read More
During slavery, many black women, often in a forcible union with a white man, bore mixed-race childr... Read More
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A few months ago, I noticed that my published column spelled "black" "Black." As I had submitted the... Read More
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