There’s never been a time in the United States history when black rebellions did not spark existential fear among white people.

When disability is understood as dependency, disability is posited in direct contrast to American ideals of independence and autonomy.

Slavery is made to sound as if it happened in a prehistoric age instead of only a few generations ago.

White supremacy illuminates the exceptional instead of blaming the system.

We in the developed world are like homeowners who inherited a house on a piece of land that is beautiful on the outside, but whose soil is unstable loam and rock, heaving and contracting over generations, cracks patched but the deeper ruptures waved away for decades, centuries even....

The soul of America has yet to be born.

I was born nine years after four little girls were killed in Birmingham, Alabama, and two other boys later the same day.

Black men are not a species. They, you, belong to humanity.

I learned the hard way that there is a deep difference between the Jesus that Black folks worship and the Jesus that white Christians worship.

Ironically, Americans who self-identify as not racist—whether they're conservatives, moderates, liberals, radicals, progressives—they don't realize… that we are connecting ourselves to a history of slave traders who self-identified as not racist (although they didn't use that term). We're...