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Shaquille recalls watching her neighbors move out of the neighborhood one by one, and then in droves. She noticed that before new businesses came in, her neighborhood was predominantly Black.

Panels of experts discuss the housing crisis in America with a focus on how we got here and what can be done. The program will be both in person and virtual. Registration required. Registration is required to attend either in person or on Zoom. Registration for IN-PERSON event closes December 5. Register here. To attend virtually, please join us via Zoom here. The in-person event consists of panel discussions at 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. with lunch at noon. At 2 p.m., there will be an opportunity to co...

We celebrate Toyin Falola as our own, one of the best from the womb of Africa. We rejoice with him. We are proud of him. Falola, rise still.

My colleague Ezra Klein wrote his latest column on the work of David Shor, a Democratic polling analyst whose primary message is a critique of the Democratic Party, namely that its college-educated professional class is too removed from the working-class, non-college-educated voters they need to win.

Brendan Wolfe, it’s for history lovers but also for people who just love a good story. In each episode, Wolfe combs through the encyclopedia looking for the most interesting people and the most provocative questions. This podcast is produced by Miranda Bennett.

The southern writer Robert Penn Warren claimed that the Civil War was the United States’ ‘only “felt” history – history lived in the national imagination’. If ongoing debates about the management of Confederate statuary teach us anything, it is that its reverberations continue to be felt by Americans today. The grip of the Civil War certainly seems to have tightened in recent years as the rise of white supremacist violence and the efforts of the Black Lives Matter movement to challe...