By Drew Gilpin Faust faust_1-121715.jpg Peter Foley/epa/CorbisBill Clinton and John Hope Franklin discussing race relations in America at the New York Public Library, October 2005 The historian John Hope…
By John Nichols Muslim_American_Flag_rtr_img Samr Ebrahim with his granddaughter Zrahaa Mohammed at a park in Dearborn, Michigan, April 9, 2003. (Reuters / Rebecca Cook) Followers of Islam have lived…
By Jeet Heer Just a year a so ago, the phrase “identity politics” had a musty and arcane air to it, redolent as it was of early 1990s campus battles…
By Nick Turse Leaders pose for a photo around US Army Gen. David Rodriguez (front, center), US Army Africa Command commander, June 26, 2013, during Exercise Western Accord 2013 in…
By Libero Della Piana Libero Della Piana As a first-year student at Brown University, twenty-five years ago, I was detained by campus security for trespassing. In my own dorm….
By Laila Lalami Flowers are put in a window shattered by a bullet as Paris mourns the victims of a terrorist attack. (Photo: AP/Peter Dejong) What happened in Paris on…
Denis Balibouse / Reuters By Conor Friedersdorf As the terrorist attack against Paris unfolded Friday, a moment that Americans experienced in the strange semi-togetherness of social media, something prompted the…
By Christina Cauterucci Students staged a sit-in outside the president’s office in Healy Hall at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. At the University of Missouri, students have ousted their president…
By John Nichols Democratic presidential candidate Senator Bernie Sanders waves as he marches with supporters in the Labor Day parade. (AP Photo / Jim Cole) Samuel Gompers, the immigrant cigar…
By Joshua Holland The New York City Police Academy’s graduation ceremony. (Reuters / Carlo Allegri) Race dominated the coverage of the 2014 shooting of John Crawford. Crawford was a young…
By Art Heitzer and Marjorie Cohn President Barack Obama during a bilateral meeting with Cuban President Raúl Castro during the United Nations General Assembly, September 29, 2015., Doug Mills /…
By Oliver Laughland and Lauren Gambino Hillary Clinton met with prominent leaders of the new civil rights movement on Friday, including founders of the influential Campaign Zero, telling them she…