(Aimee Dilger / SOPA Images / LightRocket via Getty Images) Subscribe to the nation Subscribe now for as little as $2 a month! Thank you for signing up for the nation‘s weekly newsletter. Thank you for signing up. For more from the nationcheck out our latest issue. Subscribe to the nation Subscribe now for as … Read more
Greener pastures: A home in Seneca Village, surrounded by the rolling hills that would become Central Park. In 1825, John and Elizabeth Whitehead divided their Manhattan farmland into 200 lots and began selling it off. I know it’s hard to imagine Manhattan as ever having farmland, but “the city” remained densely clustered on the southern … Read more
dr Martin Luther King Jr. points to Selma, Ala., on a map. (Bettman Archives / Getty Images) Subscribe to the nation Subscribe now for as little as $2 a month! Thank you for signing up for the nation‘s weekly newsletter. Thank you for signing up. For more from the nationcheck out our latest issue. Subscribe … Read more
This moment demands that individuals, institutions, and communities make equitable room for Black expertise on all matters. This moment demands that we see Black people, especially Black women, in every level of leadership, including on the Supreme Court. Photo by Cory Clark / NurPhoto via Getty Images Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman’s new book, The Black Agenda: … Read more
George Aumoithe. (Photo by Oriana Koren) One glaring revelation of the Covid-19 crisis is how ill-prepared the United States turned out to be for an unexpected national medical emergency. There are deep historical reasons for why our welfare state proved incapable of dealing with the unprecedented challenges of the pandemic—reasons that predate the Trump administration’s … Read more
Illustration by Katrien de Blauwer. In July 2016, Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign released an ad titled “Role Models.” It starts off with what appear to be exterior shots of a single-family home in the rural Midwest and then of an inner-city rowhouse. Next we see children, representing numerous target demographics, watching TV inside dimly lit … Read more
