Race Relations

  • The Eloquent Violence

    The Eloquent Violence

    As Baltimore burned this April, it was the clearest evidence yet that inner city America, where a good number of African-American youth live, is in the throes of a potent catharsis. The death of Freddie Gray trails only the headlines of the past few months, amongst which was the killing of 50-year-old Walter Scott by

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  • What’s In a Name?

    I stood in that hallway. I could have been standing in the middle of a four-lane expressway with cars zooming past me at 100 miles per hour and it wouldn’t have mattered. I was somewhere out in the wild. And if it all felt so foreign and a bit unnerving, maybe it was because I

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