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Idris Elba Stopped Calling Himself a ‘Black Actor’ February 10, 2023
Idris Elba is tired of being put in a box. The actor, who is returning as his iconic detective Luther in Netflix’s upcoming movie “Luther: The Fallen Son,” recently told Esquire UK that he has stopped calling himself “a Black actor” after it became a...
Majority Minority? America? Don't Bet on It February 09, 2021
Remember the “coalition of the ascendant”? National Journal’s Ronald Brownstein invented the phrase in 2008 to describe the “growing elements of American society” that had elected Barack Obama and given Democrats commanding majorities in both congres...
The Work of Atonement June 20, 2020
The idea of compensating the descendants of American slaves for the injustices inflicted on their ancestors, as William A. Darity and A. Kirsten Mullen remind us in “From Here to Equality: Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-First Century,”...
How America Became Over-Policed June 08, 2018
In pop culture, representations of police have tended with few exceptions to start with the vision of a righteous force on the side of the people. In the 1950s, Dragnetshowed Sergeant Joe Friday solving crimes with a cool professionalism. In the ongo...
