Kids say it’s fun to take cars. They brag to each other about how many they’ve stolen and the sleekest models they’ve sped away in. They say they are bored and that it’s easy, sharing videos of themselves driving at 120 miles per hour. They smile with key fobs, offering rides on Facebook. But all of the biggest car thieves had something to run from.
“I underwent, during the summer that I became fourteen, a prolonged religious crisis. I use “religious” in the common, and arbitrary, sense, meaning that I then discovered God, His saints and angels, and His blazing Hell. And since I had been born in a Christian nation, I accepted this Deity as the only one. I supposed Him to exist only within the walls of a church—in fact, of our church—and I also supposed that God and safety were synonymous.”
A professor conducts a lifelong racial experiment.
On affirmative action at the University of Texas, the essence of privilege, and getting what you deserve.
This job—writing college essays for Abigail Fishers—was the only job I have ever been truly ashamed of, and I am so ashamed of it now that it hurts.
William Regnery II spent almost 20 years funding the racist right. It finally paid off.
Life for a Muslim doctor in rural Minnesota before and after the election of Donald Trump.
On race and risk in American culture.
An interview with Rachel Dolezal.
An investigation into “a subtler form of redlining.”
The story of Lisa S. Davis and Lisa S. Davis.
Disillusioned with fine dining, one of the world’s great chefs took on fast food. It has been harder than he ever imagined.
A near future with racial voting restrictions and questionnaires.
Feminism brought the opposition together for the Women’s March on Washington. But how long will that last, and how many converts can it win?
Late in a career marked by both triumph and tragedy, the author has written a new book exploring the unsettling case of Emmett Till’s father — and the isolation of black men in America.
He was white nationalism’s heir apparent. Then he went to college.
When Larycia Hawkins, the first black woman to receive tenure at Wheaton College, made a symbolic gesture of support for Muslims, the evangelical college became divided over what intellectual freedom on its campus really meant.
On police brutality in New York and the race riots of 1964.
On the public schools of Detroit.
Baltimore’s state’s attorney gambled that prosecuting six officers for the death of Freddie Gray would help heal her city. She lost much more than just the case.
She entered the national spotlight after she live streamed the death of her boyfriend, Philando Castile, who was shot by police during a traffic stop. This is Diamond Reynolds’s life today.
Only 16 counties regularly impose death sentences, and they have three things in common: overaggressive prosecutors, defense lawyers who aren’t up to the task and cultural legacies of racial bias. Florida’s Fourth Judicial Circuit is among them.
A profile of the Carolina Panthers quarterback.
A conversation about race, Hollywood, and what it’s like to be able to conjure weed out of thin air.
More than 60 years after Brown v. Board of Education, New York’s schools remain separate and unequal.
The real-time intersection of race, crime, reality, and entertainment.
