Beyond Bias: The Case for an Abolitionist Psychology
Implicit bias training does not curb racism in police departments. And yet the fantasy persists that this is the way to address antiblack police...
Implicit bias training does not curb racism in police departments. And yet the fantasy persists that this is the way to address antiblack police...
Revisiting the 1973 Compton Christmas parade.
Jabeen Akhtar talks to author Kiley Reid about her debut novel, “Such a Fun Age.”
The digital impulses of African creativity have fundamentally altered literary culture.
Peniel E. Joseph reviews the new biography of Malcolm X by Les Payne and Tamara Payne, "The Dead Are Arising."
Eileen G’Sell compares two documentaries about Martin Luther King, Jr. and Helen Keller, both of whom had radical politics that have been whitewashed.
Barack Obama’s new memoir is a book hiding within a book.
An illuminating, thought-provoking, refreshingly broad-minded new book about the blues.
At the end of the 19th century social scientists embraced statistics that “proved” Black criminality. Therein lies a tale.
A new memoir about growing up on uncertain and shifting ground.
A new YA novel that shatters stereotypes of Black masculinity and fatherhood.
Dan Friedman reviews Nnedi Okorafor’s new book, “Remote Control.”
Joel Rhone reads “What It Is: Race, Family, and One Thinking Black Man’s Blues” by Clifford Thompson in context.
Clifford Thompson and Joel Rhone exchange letters to the editor in response to Rhone’s review of Thompson’s “What It Is.”