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From Ida B. Wells to James Baldwin to Ta-Nehisi Coates, these free works by Black authors give important context for what's going on in the US now.

As states have passed laws trying to regulate how children learn about race relations in the U.S., a small handful of educators have lost their jobs.

We face problems. As have all societies ever.

A Huntsville representative has pre-filed five bills targeting Confederate symbolism in Alabama state law and on its emblems.  The legislation from Rep. Laura Hall, D-Huntsville, would remove the Confederate flag, a symbol of white supremacy, from the state seal and ban its use on National Guard uniforms.  The proposals come after a summer in which several communities in Alabama and elsewhere removed monuments to the Confederacy amid protests and a broader national conversation about racism in American life. But Hall said some of the discussions around her legislation preceded.  “We were...

I’ve been thinking about Barbara Tuchman’s medieval history, A Distant Mirror, over the past couple of weeks. The book is a masterful work of anti-romance, a cold-eyed look at how generations of aristocrats and royalty waged one of the longest wars in recorded history, all while claiming the mantle of a benevolent God. The disabusing begins early. In the introduction, Tuchman examines the ideal of chivalry and finds, beneath the poetry and codes of honor, little more than myth and delusion. Knights “were supposed, in theory, to serve as defenders of the Faith, upholders of justice, cha...