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A new exhibition at the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library explores the president’s “mixed” record on civil rights — and the charged debate over racism in the New Deal.
College admission should be based on merit and qualification
Our society needs to find ways to explicitly level the playing field for groups that have been unconstitutionally disadvantaged for hundreds of years.
Race, Crisis, and Resistance in the United States An Interview with Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor is an assistant professor in the Department of African American Studies at Princeton University. She is author of Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership, published in 2019 by the University of North Carolina Press, longlisted for a 2019 National Book Award for nonfiction, and a 2020 finalist for the Pulitzer in history. Taylor’s book From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation won the Lannan Cultural Freedom Award for an Especia...