Read Alana Semuel’s fascinating look at the much looked-over period during the late 19th century when blacks and whites in the U.S. South lived near each other. Read ‘Segregation Had to Be Invented’
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The Real Duck Dynasty Scandal: Phil Robertson’s Comments on Race
His comments about gays are offensive, but his vision of the Jim Crow South is shocking—and his conservative defenders and liberal assailants are mostly ignoring it.Read more. [Image: A&E]
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In my latest animation, the Nigerian-born author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie describes coming to America for college and being floored by how little...
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Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey - Part 1
Some claim that evolution is just a theory, as if it were merely an opinion.