Black Americans - Quillette

Bestseller Reparations

In ‘American Fiction,’ director Cord Jefferson brings a devil-may-care effrontery to bear on the culture of self-censorship, progressive pieties, and artistic hypocrisy.

Thomas Larson

24 Jan 2024 · 7 min read

Virtuous Lies and Black Despair

Many leftists claim that black Americans are crushed beneath a vast, racist social machinery. It is hard to imagine a more demoralizing message.

Julian Adorney / Jake Mackey

24 Jan 2024 · 9 min read

Martin Luther King’s Understanding of Racism

King’s sophisticated understanding of racism bridges two worldviews: that racism is primarily systemic and as well as interpersonal.

John R. Wood, Jr.

15 Jan 2024 · 13 min read

Preparations, Not Reparations

If good educational opportunities were there for the taking, the sense of racial injustice in America would be much less.

Eric Silver / John Iceland

19 Nov 2023 · 6 min read

‘Woke Racism’—A Review

How will dropping to one’s knees and admitting one’s privilege end the mass incarceration of black Americans caused by the disastrous failure of the War on Drugs?

Jared Marcel Pollen

26 Oct 2021 · 11 min read

Black American Culture and the Racial Wealth Gap

In the public debate on racial inequality, the wealth gap is among the sharpest arrows in the progressive quiver.

Coleman Hughes

19 Jul 2018 · 15 min read

Radical Moderate: The Struggle for Martin Luther King's Legacy

If activists are embarrassed by constitutional norms, religious devotion, and American virtues, then what are the values around which a progressive movement can hope to organise?

Robert Showah

27 Apr 2018 · 17 min read