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Presidential Pardons

The historic clemency power of the U.S. President, set forth in Article II of the Constitution and interpreted by the Supreme Court to have few restrictions, has long been the subject of …

Smear Campaign: Giuliani, The Holy Virgin Mary, and the Critical Study of Whiteness

By Dave Roediger, author of Coloured White: Transcending the Racial Past “Smear Campaign” originated in a pair of talks I gave in 2000, one at Bowling Green State University in Ohio and …

Racial Resentment and Whites’ Feelings toward Black Lives Matter: A Q&A with Dr. Emmitt Y. Riley, III

“Movement that centers on providing racial justice for Black people must always be unapologetically Black. In our work, we articulate that in an environment that is highly racialized, we must realize the limits of white support, specifically if such approval is conditional on factors such as racial resentment.”