How police confront black and white citizens
9:55 pm, November 28, 2014 In April of my freshman year at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, a woman bolted past me at the front door of my residence […]
12-Year-Old Boy Carrying Toy Gun Shot to Death by Police Officer
A 12-year-old who was shot by a Cleveland cop on Saturday afternoon died in a hospital on Sunday morning. The boy, whose name was Tamir Rice, had been hanging around […]
To Those Who Call for Calm in Ferguson
Let me give you a word of the philosophy of reform. The whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions yet made to her august claims, […]
REDEFINING THE WORD
This season, the National Football League is attempting the impossible, a reasoned but dubious mission that has already tripped up an institution as venerable as the National Association for the […]
W.E.B. Dubois explains why he refused to vote
On October 20, 1956, W. E. B. Du Bois delivers this eloquent indictment of US politics while explaining to Nation readers why he won’t vote in the upcoming Presidential election. […]