Jelani Cobb

Donald Trump’s aversion to admitting fault suggests that we will not see events that grapple with the nuanced nature of the nation’s history this July 4th.

Americans took to the streets to defend their neighbors in the nineteenth century, too.

On M.L.K. Day, the death of Renee Good calls to mind another woman who died protesting for the rights of others.

A generation is still dying younger than it should—this time, of “natural causes.”

As an attorney, Derrick Bell worked on many civil-rights cases, but his doubts about their impact launched a groundbreaking school of thought.

America did exactly what the Kerner Commission on the urban riots of the mid-1960s advised against, and fifty years later reaped the consequences it predicted.

In becoming the party of Trump, the G.O.P. confronts the kind of existential crisis that has destroyed American parties in the past.

What the late civil-rights leader and congressman taught the nation.

The film's hero and antagonist represent dueling responses to five centuries of African exploitation at the hands of the West.

The belief endures, from Armstrong’s time that visible, affluent African-American entertainers are obliged to adopt a pose of ceaseless gratitude.

By ending DACA, President Trump seems to be trying to resurrect a national immigration policy defined by racial engineering.