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A conversation with historian Donna Murch about the past, present, and future of Black radical organizing.

“The Man Who Understood Democracy: The Life of Alexis De Tocqueville” by Olivier Zunz; Princeton University Press (456 pages, $35)

In "The Man Who Understood Democracy," Olivier Zunz, an emeritus professor of history at the University of Virginia and editor, among other books, of "The Tocqueville Reader," provides an informative biography of De Tocqueville, whose understanding of liberty and equality has remained immensely influential for almost 200 years.

School District 28 in Queens, N.Y., has a Northside and a Southside. To put it simply, the Southside is Black and the farther north you go, the fewer Black people you see. But it wasn't always like this. Once the home to two revolutionary experiments in integrated housing, the Southside of the district served as a beacon of interracial cooperation. So what happened between then and now?

On a recent morning on the Upper West Side, bassist and bandleader Ron Carter sat on the far end of a plush, rust-colored sofa in his spacious 10th-fl