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Race Relations

James Baldwin: How to Cool It

An interview with the author.

James Baldwin Esquire Jul 1968 30min Permalink

Sports

Being a Black Player in Boston

Stories of African Americans playing in a city that has struggled with racism

Marc J. Spears The Undefeated Feb 2020 25min Permalink

Sports

The Bout

How one Texas boxing match changed history.

Cary Clack Truly*Adventurous Feb 2020 30min Permalink

Fiction

Fiction Pick of the Week: "The Burglar"

The real-time intersection of race, crime, reality, and entertainment.

Sarah Shun-lien Bynum New Yorker Apr 2016 25min Permalink

For President Obama, a Complex Calculus of Race and Politics

“His seeming ease belies the anxiety and emotion that advisers say he brings to his historic position: pride in what he has accomplished, determination to acquit himself well and intense frustration.”

Jodi Kantor New York Times Oct 2012 10min Permalink