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May 27, 2015
Steven Lubet
Did This Acclaimed Sociologist Drive the Getaway Car in a Murder Plot?
The questionable ethics of Alice Goffman's "On the Run"
May 26, 2015
Alana Massey
The White Protestant Roots of American Racism
May 15, 2015
Jamil Smith
John Legend Needs You To Know Why This Young Man Is Dead
The superstar musician on his new HBO documentary, 'Southern Rites'
May 11, 2015
Jamil Smith
In Defense of 'Uppity-ism'
Michelle Obama urged Tuskegee grads to "rise above the noise." All black Americans should take her advice.
May 11, 2015
Joel Gillin
How Social Scientists Try—and Sometimes Fail—to Predict Riots
May 7, 2015
Matthew Pratt Guterl
What Is David Brooks's Purpose?
The Times columnist says moral debate is dying. He must not be paying attention to #BlackLivesMatter.
May 5, 2015
Stacia L. Brown
The Luxury of Hope
What the Baltimore prosecutor's charges in the Freddie Gray case mean to native residents
May 4, 2015
Rebecca Leber
Tamir Rice's Body Still Isn't Buried Because the Criminal Investigation Keeps Dragging On
May 3, 2015
Suzy Khimm
"We're Going to Protect Our Community Ourselves"
Baltimore's gangs came together to protect their community. But is that all they want?
May 1, 2015
Jamil Smith
Baltimore's Prosecutor Gets It
The charges in the Freddie Gray case show that scaring cops is the best way to fight police abuse
May 1, 2015
Elspeth Reeve
The White Man's Bargain
April 30, 2015
Stacia L. Brown
Looking While Black
When eye contact with police is considered a crime
April 29, 2015
Suzy Khimm
"They Can’t Lock Everybody Up"
Counting down to curfew with Freddie Gray's neighbors in Baltimore
April 29, 2015
Stacia L. Brown
Having Black Cops and Black Mayors Doesn't End Police Brutality
A Baltimore writer on racial tension and the limits of diversity
April 29, 2015
Rebecca Traister
The Violence in Baltimore Didn't Start with the Riots
April 28, 2015
Suzy Khimm
"It Took This to Bring the Light To Everything"
Baltimoreans say calls for peace are futile without an agenda for change
April 27, 2015
Jamil Smith
What Loretta Lynch Must Do Now
As Baltimore bleeds, the new attorney general needs to shift police culture in a short time
April 24, 2015
Jamil Smith
This Isn't the Same 'New Republic'
April 24, 2015
Michael Eric Dyson
All Black Lives Matter
Seeing the humanity of those I criticize is vital to every claim I make under the banner of #BlackLivesMatter
April 24, 2015
Jeet Heer
Acting Without Thinking
The most effective protest movements have been enriched by debating ideas and strategy

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