Pasts Imperfect
Minority Rule(s)
Georgia’s competitive runoff election is the result of centuries of white supremacist efforts
- Anthony Conwright
Relitigating history
Efforts to settle overdue accounts in the saga of America’s struggle toward justice.
Pasts Imperfect
Majority Rule on the Brink
Annette Gordon-Reed discusses the legacies of our racial past, and the prospects ahead for embattled republic
- Chris Lehmann
Pasts Imperfect
Juneteenth and the Hazards of Ceremonial Forgetting
On Juneteenth, political leadership must grapple with the intersecting crisis of racism and tyranny in the wake of January 6, instead of simply celebrating a holiday.
- Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw
Pasts Imperfect
Juneteenth and the Fables of Emancipation
Excavating the brutal social truths beneath a holiday of uplift
- Anthony Conwright
Pasts Imperfect
Memorializing a Medical Predator
J. Marion Sims’ all-too-slow fall from scientific renown speaks volumes about the institutions that shore up white male impunity
- J.C. Hallman
