Week of August 7

• Featured Essays
  An American Reckoning

  Deva Woodly

  Associate Professor of Politics and Director of Undergraduate Studies at The New School for Social Research.
  The Making of Black Lives Matter: A Brief History of An Idea

  Christopher Lebron

  Associate Professor, Philosophy Department, Johns Hopkins University
  The Anti-Racist Uprising in Brooklyn

  Natasha Lennard

  Journalist and author
• The Black Lives Matter Syllabus
  Black Lives Matter: The Politics of Race and Movement in the 21st Century

  Deva Woodly

  Associate Professor of Politics and Director of Undergraduate Studies at The New School for Social Research.
  What Will It Take for Black Lives to Matter?

  Todd Gitlin

  Professor of Journalism and Sociology and Chair of the PhD program in Communications at Columbia University
  Black Insurgency, Anti-Racism, and the Student Mobilization Against Guns

  Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

  Associate Professor at Department of African American Studies in Princeton University.
  How “Blue Lives Matter” Perpetuates Police Violence

  Adam Quinn

  PhD student in history at the University of Oregon
  Asian Americans Suffer From Trump’s Racist Attacks Too

  Nadia Y. Kim

  Professor of sociology at Loyola Marymount University; author of Imperial Citizens: Koreans and Race from Seoul to LA
  How Elite Institutions Can Prove That Black Lives Matter

  Gaga Gondwe

  Harvard and Yale Law grad whose primary areas of academic focus are race and taxation
  The Hidden Structural Racism in the American Response to Public Health Emergencies

  R. Drew Smith

  Co-convener of the Transatlantic Roundtable on Religion and Race, professor at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary, director of Metro-Urban Institute
  On Our Revolutionary Moment

  James Traub

  Author and journalist
  The Pride Wore White

  McKenzie Wark

  Professor of Culture and Media, New School for Social Research
  Their Violence and Ours

  William E. Scheuerman

  Professor of Political Science at Indiana University