On the enduring racial segregation in Chicago and why it’s an issue no mayoral candidate is willing to touch.

A profile of the Time Man of the Year for 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

On Huck Finn, the book Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word, and the evolution of language and race in America.

“In 2000, Zimbabwe’s dictator began kicking white farmers off their land. One man decided to stay.”