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Civil-Rights Protests Have Never Been Popular
Activists can’t persuade their contemporaries—they’re aiming at the next generation.
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Ta-Nehisi Coates
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The Atlantic
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October 3, 2017
The Lost Cause Rides Again
The prospective series takes as its premise an ugly truth that black Americans are forced to live every day: What if the Confederacy wasn’t wholly defeated?
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Ta-Nehisi Coates
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The Atlantic
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August 4, 2017
Hillary Clinton Goes Back to the Dunning School
How do you diagnose the problem of racism in America without understanding its actual history?
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Ta-Nehisi Coates
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The Atlantic
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January 26, 2016
The Black Family in the Age of Mass Incarceration
Politicians are suddenly eager to disown failed policies on American prisons, but they have failed to reckon with the history.
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Ta-Nehisi Coates
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The Atlantic
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September 15, 2015
When Malcolm X Met Robert Penn Warren
An excerpt from a discussion between Malcolm X and Robert Penn Warren on guilt and innocence.
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Ta-Nehisi Coates
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The Atlantic
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August 28, 2015
What This Cruel War Was Over
The meaning of the Confederate flag is best discerned in the words of those who bore it.
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Ta-Nehisi Coates
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The Atlantic
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June 22, 2015
The Case for Reparations
Until we reckon with our compounding moral debts, America will never be whole.
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Ta-Nehisi Coates
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The Atlantic
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June 23, 2014
