Mark Tushnet (Harvard): Civil Rights Policy (“This essay offers an overview of US civil rights policy from the nineteenth century to the present”). Jon Thomas (George Thomas): Bell’s Curve: Why the Arc of American History Does Not Bend Toward Racial Equality. Toward a Third Reconstruction: A conversation on The Nation, race and history at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture with Eric Foner, Darryl Pinckney, Mychal Denzel Smith, Isabel Wilkerson and Patricia J. Williams. George Yancy interviews Noam Chomsky on the roots of American racism. Gary Younge on how white guilt won’t fix America’s race problem — only justice and equality. After Ferguson: Notes on oppression, by Philip Green. Aurin Squire on how to destroy a black life: A step-by-step guide. Morgan Jerkins on the psychic toll of reading the news while black: When we hear about the lives of Rekisha Boyd, Tamir Rice, Tony Robinson, Trayvon Martin, Aiyana Jones, Michael Brown and Eric Garner, we clutch our young ones knowing that they could be next. Nikole Hannah-Jones on a letter from black America: Yes, we fear the police — here’s why. W. Chris Johnson on the unauthorized biography of a black cop. “Hands up, don’t shoot” was not built on a lie: Cristian Farias on how Ferguson’s message is as powerful as ever. Does the black church need to lead the Ferguson movement? Jamil Smith wonders. Donovan X. Ramsey on why it’s time to focus on the other Fergusons in America.
