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The Enlightenment’s Dark Side

How the Enlightenment created modern race thinking, and why we should confront it.
by Jamelle Bouie via Slate
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on June 5, 2018
Inside the National Memorial for Peace and Justice, in Montgomery, AL.

The Pain We Still Need to Feel

The new lynching memorial confronts the racial terrorism that corrupted America—and still does.
by Jamelle Bouie via Slate
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on May 1, 2018

Introducing Reconstruction

The new Slate Academy finds the seeds of our present politics in the period after the Civil War.
by Jamelle Bouie, Rebecca Onion via Slate
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on October 27, 2017

America’s Painful, Historic Contempt for Black Soldiers

Donald Trump writes the latest chapter in a long history.
by Jamelle Bouie via Slate
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on October 24, 2017
Obama and Trump at Trump's inauguration.

Why Obama Voters Defected

New findings explain how Trump won them over—and why he probably wouldn’t next time.
by Jamelle Bouie via Slate
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on June 20, 2017

Donald Trump Sees Himself in Andrew Jackson. They Deserve Each Other.

The president deserves the Jackson legacy, but not for the reasons he'd like.
by Jamelle Bouie via Slate
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on March 15, 2017
Jesse Jackson at an event honoring Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech in Washington, D.C., in 1983.

Keep Hope Alive

Demoralized Democrats have a road map for success in Trump’s America. It was written by Jesse Jackson.
by Jamelle Bouie via Slate
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on November 28, 2016

Bernie Sanders Is Right That Reparations Would Be Divisive

But the Vermont senator’s political revolution depends on white America, too.
by Jamelle Bouie via Slate
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on January 21, 2016

When People Flee to America’s Shores

We are a nation of immigrants and refugees. Yet we always fear who is coming next.
by Jamelle Bouie via Slate
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on November 17, 2015

Slavery Myths Debunked

The Irish were slaves too; slaves had it better than factory workvers; black people fought for the Confederacy; and so on.
by Jamelle Bouie, Rebecca Onion via Slate
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on September 29, 2015

This Haunting Animation Maps the Journeys of 15,790 Slave Ships in Two Minutes

315 years. 20,528 voyages. Millions of lives.
by Jamelle Bouie, Andrew Kahn via Slate
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on June 25, 2015

Our Commemoration of the Civil War’s End Celebrates a Myth

The emancipation of black Americans has been written out of our celebration of the Civil War's end.
by Jamelle Bouie via Slate
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on April 14, 2015

The Unlikely Paths of Grant and Lee

The two men met at Appomattox. The loser would become a role model, the victor an embarrassment.
by Jamelle Bouie via Slate
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on April 9, 2015
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