Racial Injustice in America
Coverage of Black Lives Matter, police brutality, and the long history of racism in America.
The Political Scene Podcast
Sybrina Fulton: “Trayvon Martin Could Have Been Anybody’s Son”
The mother whose teen-age boy’s death inspired a movement a little more than a decade ago continues to grieve his loss, and to demand accountability.
Our Columnists
The Fantasy of Integration in Shaker Heights, Ohio
A new book chronicles the affluent suburb’s strides toward desegregation. Are residents’ good intentions good enough?
The Front Row
“Earth Mama” Reinvigorates the Closeup, the Beating Heart of the Cinema
Savanah Leaf’s first feature film takes place at a crucial intersection of intimate life and public policy.
Our Columnists
Chicago’s Unlikeliest Mayor, Brandon Johnson
The former union organizer makes the leap from protest to politics.
Daily Comment
Hip-Hop at Fifty: An Elegy
A generation is still dying younger than it should—this time, of “natural causes.”
Essay
Who’s Left Out of the Learning-Loss Debate
Critics of school closures undermine the two groups who could do the most to help students recover—parents and teachers.
Under Review
The Defeat of Identity Politics
In a new book, the philosopher Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò condemns the “elite capture” of radical movements.
Culture Desk
Reckoning with the Slave Ship Clotilda
A new documentary tells the story of the last known slave ship to enter the United States and takes on the difficult question of how to memorialize America’s history of racial violence.
Annals of Medicine
Are We About to Cure Sickle-Cell Disease?
New gene therapies hold extraordinary promise, but they might not be enough to overcome a medical system that marginalizes Black Americans.
The New Yorker Radio Hour
Helen Rosner’s Summer Drinks
The food-and-drink writer picks three cocktails to toast the reopening world, and mixes them on a very hot roof. Plus, the perilous future of girls’ education in Afghanistan.
The New Yorker Radio Hour
The Newspaperman Who Championed Black Tulsa
A. J. Smitherman documented Greenwood at its height, and tried to prevent its destruction in the Tulsa Massacre. Plus, David Remnick on what a new Prime Minister will mean for Israel.
The New Yorker Radio Hour
Spike Lee on the Knicks, and Looking Back at a Year of Protest and Activism
The filmmaker is ecstatic about the success of his beloved team. Plus, David Remnick talks with a senior Justice Department official about the President’s promises for racial justice.
U.S. Journal
The Women Who Preserved the Story of the Tulsa Race Massacre
Two pioneering Black writers have not received the recognition they deserve for chronicling one of the country’s gravest crimes.
The Political Scene Podcast
Can We Finally End School Segregation?
A California school district was ordered to end the de-facto segregation that kept many Black and Latino children in a neglected school. What would it take to integrate?
Cultural Comment
Daunte Wright and the Grammar of Kim Potter’s Resignation
Potter insists that she “has loved every minute of being a police officer,” even if some of her final minutes in the field were spent annihilating a man.
The Front Row
“Test Pattern,” Reviewed: A Brilliant Début Examines the Aftermath of Sexual Assault
Shatara Michelle Ford’s feature feels conceived not for the purpose of revealing inner lives alone but to put society at large to the test.
2020 in Review
The Best Art of 2020
A silver lining of this year is the reassurance that art is unstoppable.
Double Take
Sunday Reading: A Year of New Urgency for Black Lives Matter
From The New Yorker’s archive: a selection of pieces about the racial-justice movement in America.
U.S. Journal
The Defacement and Destruction of Black Lives Matter Murals
In Tulsa and other U.S. cities, street art that served as a summer rallying cry is now under threat from vandals, pro-police groups, and local governments.