A weekend with the United Order of Tents, a semi-covert organization of black women.

Black people struggling with debts are far less likely than their white peers to gain lasting relief from bankruptcy. A style of bankruptcy practiced by lawyers in the South is primarily to blame.

“Colin Kaepernick is inconvenient. To persist is to show strength, but also to be unpredictable, hard to define, impossible to control. And to grow stronger with every lash is to become dangerous—a threat not only to power, but to inspire others to follow suit.”

They were the first black boys to integrate the South’s elite prep schools. They drove themselves to excel in an unfamiliar environment. But at what cost?

“I was the wealthiest, most powerful person Brown knew, and I had sixty-seven dollars in my banking account.”

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.