Racism is an American Problem

Earlier this week, Kirsten West Savali published a thoughtful and wrenching account of what it is like for her to write columns on race and racism from her hometown in Mississippi. She says, “I write so I can live. I write so black people can see their pain,...

An Open Letter to Allies

Attiya Latif, a Jefferson Scholar at the University of Virginia, recently published an Open Letter to Allies in response to Sandra Bland’s death. We must work to combat the framework of oppression built into America’s society through awareness, through...

Our Racial Moment of Truth by Isabel Wilkerson

In her op ed piece (New York Times, Sunday, July 19, 2015,) Isabel Wilkerson, author of The Warmth of Other Suns, sees the removal of the Confederate flag and the publication of Harper Lee’s early manuscript Go Set a Watchman, in which the bigotry of an older...