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David J. Dent is a professor of journalism and social and cultural analysis at New York University and the author of In Search of Black America.
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‘A Sad Day’ for Republicans in Obama-Trump Counties
TURNING POINTThe counties that went from Obama to Trump mostly stuck with Trump over Biden, and people there are still processing the election, and everything that's happened since.

Black Doctors Try to Get Through to Vaccine Resisters
‘ARE THEY GOING TO EXPERIMENT ON ME AGAIN?’“We have to educate people so that we can get the community vaccinated. We have a big responsibility.”

More Black Men Went With Trump This Time. I Asked a Few Why.
‘I’LL RETHINK THIS’The shift could signal growing Black impatience with the perceived failures of white liberalism to rectify racial inequities.

BLM Activists Court Trump Converts in Crossover Counties
‘NO MORE OF THIS STUFF’Voters in Iowa counties that went from Obama in 2008 and 2012 to Trump in 2016 were already struggling to come to grips with 2020. Then came the protests.

These Terrified Black Americans Are Packing Heat
Safe, Not SorryBlack gun ownership was already taking off in the Trump era. Then a deluge of horrific killings raised the stakes even higher.

What Trump’s Black Male Supporters Say They See in Him
‘ALPHA MALE’S ALPHA MALE’Winning the support of just a relative handful of black men could help get Trump over the top in key states.

COVID-19 Is Ravaging a Black Church in Rural Georgia
DISPROPORTIONATE“I don’t know an African-American family who has not been impacted directly.”
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