Shifting the Frame
I sat down to write about the death of Jason Arday, but my emotions kept overwhelming my pen.
A Native Son
“We can be better people, a better country, if we dare to imagine…”
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Weekly Wrap Up - August 14, 2026
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A Moment to Rest
After a grueling twenty-day book tour—meeting wonderful people, shaking hands, taking photographs, and receiving thousands of hugs—I needed rest.
Weekly Wrap Up - August 7, 2026
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THE SHAPE OF FEAR
In June 1926, W.E.B.
Weekly Wrap Up - July 31, 2026
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Imagination Capture
Steve Scalise, the congressman from Louisiana and former Republican Majority Whip, recently said that “the Bolshevik takeover of the Democratic Party is in full swing, and communism is on the ballot this November, against freedom.
Weekly Wrap Up - July 24, 2026
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A Lynching in Creoletown
In the old cemetery of the Black Catholic Church in Pascagoula, Mississippi, the church in which I was raised, lies the unmarked grave of a man who was lynched on June 20, 1899, at 1:40 in the morning.
Weekly Wrap Up - July 17, 2026
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The Idolatry of Origins: America at 250 Years
by Melvin L. Rogers, Edna and Richard Salomon Distinguished Professor, Brown University
Earned Skepticism
I have been thinking a lot lately about the death of Nolan Wells.
Weekly Wrap Up - July 10, 2026
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The Color Question
Many Americans often turn to Frederick Douglass’s July 5, 1852 speech on the occasion of July 4th. This 250th anniversary has been no different.
Weekly Wrap Up - July 3, 2026
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“What is Your Advancement to the Knock Out Round, to the Second-Class Citizen?”: A Man Without a Country at the World Cup
by Professor Charles F. Peterson
The Best People with Nicolle Wallace
Eddie Glaude believes that, “if we’re not angry about our current moment, something’s wrong.” Bonded by their experiences covering some of the nation’s most haunting modern stories, the author and Princeton professor joins Nicolle to speak candidly about America as it approaches its 250th anniversary — its complicated history and the sweeping wave of white nationalism surging across it.
Megyn Kelly and the Rising Tide of Color
I have been processing the Supreme Court’s recent decision regarding TPS and its implications for hundreds of thousands of Haitians and others in this country.
Weekly Wrap Up - June 26, 2026
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Love you, Dad
I first read James Baldwin seriously in graduate school.