
By Nicholas Lemann National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution/Art ResourceW.E.B. Du Bois; detail of a drawing by Winold Reiss, circa 1925 W.E.B. Du Bois’s very long life coincided almost exactly with…
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By Nicholas Lemann National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution/Art ResourceW.E.B. Du Bois; detail of a drawing by Winold Reiss, circa 1925 W.E.B. Du Bois’s very long life coincided almost exactly with…
By Jon Lee Anderson Before Michel Martelly was the President, he was Sweet Micky, a popular singer. Credit Photograph by Philip Montgomery for The New Yorker A few months ago, a crowd…
By Amy Davidson Hillary Clinton speaks at a town-hall meeting in Iowa. CreditPhotograph by Justin Sullivan/Getty “Here’s the Senator’s ad,” Chris Cuomo, of CNN, said to Hillary Clinton, who was standing…
By Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II National movement: Rev. William Barber (center) speaks to media at a Moral Monday rally in Albany, New York, in 2015. (Courtesy of North Carolina NAACP)…
By Jamil Smith In the last week or so, Bernie Sanders has been questioned twice on national television about high-profile endorsements that he didn’t win. Both times, he provided strange answers….
By Christine Emba Taking it for granted that when you’re shopping alone, you probably won’t be followed or harassed. Knowing that if you ask to speak to “the person in charge,” you’ll…
By Jamil Smith In the last week or so, Bernie Sanders has been questioned twice on national television about high-profile endorsements that he didn’t win. Both times, he provided strange answers….
By: Charles D. Ellison A voter, Treveyon Brock, casts his ballot as people wait in line at a polling place Nov. 4, 2014, near Ferguson, Mo. Admit it: When you finally…
By: Nigel Roberts Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), a self-proclaimed democratic socialist, stands to the left of Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton on some issues. But many wonder whether he, after serving…
by Emma Lockridge On Jan. 15, Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette vowed to investigate the water crisis in Flint, Michigan, to determine whether any state laws were broken, resulting in lead contamination….
By Earl Ofari Hutchinson Here’s the big problem for Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders. He will either win outright or make a powerful second place showing in both the Iowa…
By Henry (Chip) Carey Haitians rioted violently in the capital Port-au-Prince and across the country on Monday to protest fraud in this past autumn’s elections and in this Sunday’s presidential vote. While the opposition…