Social Justice Number of Americans Who Believe Racism Is a ‘Big Problem’ Has Doubled Fifty-eight percent of Americans believe racism is a pervasive issue. Morgan Baskin
News in Brief America Is Still Killing Emmett Till Timothy B. Tyson’s The Blood of Emmett Till reminds us how little has changed. Brandon Tensley
News in Brief America, the House That Slavery Built By minimizing how we talk about slavery, we ignore its profound impact on the development of the American economy. Tasha Williams
News in Brief The Baltimore Mayoral Election Is About More Than Black Lives Matter Maryland State Delegate Jill P. Carter speaks to Pacific Standard about the promises and perils in Baltimore. Elena Gooray
News in Brief Is Daniel Holtzclaw’s Sentencing a Victory for the Black Lives Matter Movement? The former Oklahoma City police officer was sentenced to 263 years in prison for sexually abusing scores of black women by an all-white jury. Julie Morse
Social Justice White Supremacy and Taylor Swift’s ‘Wildest Dreams’ Video How the pop icon has embraced Hollywood's long, rich tradition of nostalgia for black subjugation. Aaron Bady
News in Brief No, Black Lives Matter Isn’t Waging a War on Cops The death of a Texas deputy embodies a common (and false) conservative rebuke of the new civil rights movement. Jared Keller
Education Meet One of the Women Who Created a Black Lives Matter Textbook for Middle Schoolers "Historians will teach something that was extremely inflammatory at the time, but we're far away from it now. They don't get the kind of heat that I get." Francie Diep
News in Brief The Past, Present, and Future of the Black Lives Matter Network A scholar of race and digital media details how the online prowess of #BlackLivesMatter was over 20 years in the making. Charlton McIlwain