To trace the global history of the twenty-first century so far is to trace a pattern of growing unaffordability and shortage: a national housing crisis, not enough workers, a shortfall of chips for cars and computers, an insufficient clean energy infrastructure. The crisis that’s clicking into focus now has been building for decades—because we haven’t […]

When Professor Bernadette Atuahene moved to Detroit, she planned to study the city's squatting phenomenon. What she accidentally found was too urgent to ignore. Her neighbors, many of whom had owned their homes for decades, were losing them to property tax foreclosure, leaving once bustling Black neighborhoods blighted with vacant homes. Through years of dogged […]

In a nation whose Constitution purports to speak for “We the People,” too many of the stories that powerful Americans tell about law and society include only "We the Men". A long line of judges, politicians, and other influential scene setters have ignored women's struggles for equality or distorted them beyond recognition by wildly exaggerating […]

In the Nation's Capital, music and sports have played a central role in the lives of African Americans, often serving as a barometer of social conflict and social progress--for sports clubs and ball games, jam sessions and concerts, offered entertainment, enlightenment, and encouragement. At times, they have also offered a means of escape from the […]