As the U.S. turns 250, this historian has blunt advice: ‘America has to grow up’
As the United States prepares to celebrate its 250th anniversary, historian and Princeton professor Eddie Glaude Jr. says he’s feeling rageful. He opens his new book, ‘America, U.S.A.: How Race Shadows the Nation’s Anniversaries,’ bluntly, with the declaration: “I do not love America, and never have, especially now.”
Activists paid for the Voting Rights Act in blood. The supreme court has undermined it
The supreme court paved the way for racial discrimination in voting, 60 years after Martin Luther King Jr and thousands of other movement leaders bled, marched and mobilized for Congress to outlaw it. This is a break-glass outcome for what was already a severely weakened Voting Rights Act (VRA), and it will reshape the future […]
The supreme court’s voting rights decision is a death knell for American democracy
Is America a democracy? The term implies an equality of rights and dignity among citizens, a collective and uniform right of individuals to participate in self-government and to shape the laws that rule them. In that sense, the answer is no: though it has been a republic since its founding, America has only rarely been […]
‘I saw the backlash coming’: civil rights activist Kimberlé Crenshaw on America and race
She coined the term ‘intersectionality’ and helped to develop critical race theory, now her life’s work is under attack by Washington’s war on ‘woke.’ As her memoir is published, the legal scholar explains why she’ll never stop speaking truth to power.
