Developers Are Trying to Desecrate a Black Cemetery—Again
GENTRIFICATION OF HISTORYBethesda’s predominantly Black community is fighting big business—and the government—on behalf of their departed ancestors.
The Klan Was the Original ‘Election Police’
ROTTEN REEDEEMERSToday’s Republican politicians are counting on ignorance of or apathy about that history as they try to create their own election-crime cop forces.
Kyle Rittenhouse’s Lethal Pursuit of Happiness is Our Legacy
‘LAWFUL CONQUEROR’His acquittal is only the latest reminder that life and liberty have always been about the protection of property.
The Missing Word for America’s Original Sin Is Ethnocide
CRIME WITHOUT A NAMEThe first step toward fixing a problem is naming it.
Forget the Fourth of July—It’s Time to Celebrate Juneteenth
‘NOBODY EVER HEARD OF IT’To create the freedom it’s promised, America must liberate itself from many of the lies we have long told ourselves.
We Can Do to the Senate What Brits Did to the House of Lords
TIME’S UPThe Senate has been impeding American democracy for two centuries, but this does not mean it has to go on forever.
Obama Lays It on the Line While Trump SCREAMS ON TWITTER
BOOM!He gutted Trump even more severely than his wife had. But then he stepped back. He may think Trump is hopeless, but he still wants us to hope.
It’s Time for All of America To Celebrate Juneteenth
‘SOMETHING GOOD’In America, no longer owning a slave necessitated reparations but being enslaved did not. It’s history we need to remember to even begin the work of moving past it.
‘I Can’t Breathe’ Is the New American Anthem
ETHNOCIDEWhen systematic terror is normalized, institutionalized, and legalized, atrocities appear to be banal and unavoidable facets of life.
Ahmaud Arbery Video Exposes the Banality of American Evil
‘HOT PURSUIT’In America, and especially the South, criminality is stamped on black bodies from birth.