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With debate raging around the Treaty Principles Bill. It’s important to recognise a dispute between Māori and the Crown is not the same as a breakdown in relations between Māori and Pākehā in general.
The choices of author and illustrator Crockett Johnson during the printing process – as well as his civil rights advocacy – make it entirely within the realm of possibility.
A newly released app allows users to search for discriminatory roadway names, helping communities grasp the ubiquity of inequalities embedded in everyday spaces and the harm they cause.
Over the past half-century, American media has usually proclaimed that Black men and white women can be great presidents. But they have to be one or the other: a Black man or a white woman.
When US cities offered low-cost, high-quality public transit during World War II, buses and trains were full. Some cities are trying to revive that formula, after decades of disinvestment.
With every new incident of racial violence, Black people tend to undergo a collective sense of racial grief.
Mapping daily temperature variations across the US revealed stark differences between wealthy and poor neighborhoods, and large differences by race.
The COVID-19 pandemic showed that a one-size-fits-all approach is inadequate for addressing health inequities. A targeted, community-informed strategy is essential to improve public health responses.
The six-time platinum-selling artist invites fans into an imagined future that celebrates Blackness and queerness.
Why are Republicans talking about Kamala Harris’ laugh? It’s the latest stage in a long history of marginalizing Black women.
Misogyny has made it difficult for all women to gain entry into politics, let alone Black women, who face the additional obstacle of abject racism. Will Kamala Harris finally break those barriers?
An assassin’s bullet couldn’t knock George Wallace out of politics − but it made him seek redemption.
Montgomery once closed all of its parks rather than desegregate them. Today, the city’s long history of racial inequality is still reflected in the state of its parks and green spaces.
David Seymour’s expectation that drug-buying policy be based on need rather than ethnicity misses the point: the Treaty of Waitangi is already about equality, and can help guide good decisions.
In a major homelessness ruling, the Supreme Court holds that cities and municipalities can punish people for sleeping outside, even when they have nowhere else to go.
Ordinary Whites in Apartheid South Africa is a new book that explores how apartheid monitored and shaped white life, and how all classes of white people were complicit.
These endeavors end up turning the complexity of Black life into a stunt.
Human bondage was big business in the antebellum US, and men weren’t the only ones cashing in.
The singer’s home reflects the rags-to-riches trajectory that epitomizes the American Dream. Yet Presley and his estate were seen as not quite refined enough to reflect true upward mobility.
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Professor of Social Work, Michigan State University
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Emeritus Professor of Sociology, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor of Journalism, Indiana University
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Visiting Researcher in Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies, Cardiff University
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Professor of Political Science, University of Florida
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Evan Pugh University Professor of Anthropology, Penn State
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Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream, Black Health Lead, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto
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Assistant Professor of History, Hunter College
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Professor of Law, Faculty Director of the Excellence in Policing & Public Safety Program, University of South Carolina
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Professor of Sociology and Director of the Center for Employment Equity, UMass Amherst
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