Three or more is a riot: notes on how we got here, 2012-2025

Trayvon Martin and the parameters of hope (March 21, 2012)

Rodney King, 1965-2012 (June 19, 2012)

Barack X (October 7, 2012)

Tarantino Unchained (January 2, 2013)

Lincoln died for our sins (January 22, 2013)

The segregationist's daughter (February 7, 2013)

Boston and the problem with collective guilt (April 20, 2013)

The many battles of Harry Belafonte (November 11, 2013)

Mandela and the politics of forgiveness (December 6, 2013)

What we talk about when we talk about reparations (May 29, 2014)

Ruby Dee, 1922-2014 (June 13, 2014)

What I saw in Ferguson (August 14, 2014)

Between the world and Ferguson (August 26, 2014)

The path cleared by Amiri Baraka (January 15, 2015)

David Carr, 1956-2015 (February 13, 2015)

Black like her (June 15, 2015)

Terrorism in Charleston (June 29, 2015)

Last battles (July 6 and 13, 2015)

Class notes (August 31, 2015)

The matter of Black Lives (March 14, 2016)

Donald Trump and the death of the American exceptionalism (November 4, 2016)

Barak Obama in defeat (November 10, 2016)

Gwen Ifill, 1955-2016 (November 15, 2016)

Liberals invoke states' rights (November 28, 2016)

Taking it to the streets (Janurary 9, 2017)

Prodigy of hate (February 6, 2017)

Ben Carson, Donald Trump, and the misuse of American history (March 8, 2017)

The battle over confederate monuments in New Orleans (March 12, 2017)

Charlottesville and the trouble with Civil War hypotheticals (August 16, 2017)

From Louis Armstrong to the NFL: ungrateful as the new uppity (September 24, 2017)

Harvey Weinstein, Bill Cosby, and the cloak of charity (October 14, 2017)

Hard tests (January 8, 2018)

"Black Panther" and the invention of "Africa" (February 18, 2018)

The southern strategist (May 14, 2018)

From Charleston to Pittsburgh, an arc of premeditated American tragedy (November 1, 2018)

The New Zealand shooting and the Great-Man Theory of misery (March 20, 2019)

How the trail of American white supremacy led to El Paso (August 6, 2019)

Stacey Abrams's fight for a fair vote (August 19, 2019)

Back to school reform (September 8, 2019)

How Robert Frank's photographs helped define America (September 11, 2019)

What Elijah Cummings meant to Baltimore (October 18, 2019)

The powerful perspective of "Queen & Slim" (November 27, 2019)

D-Nice's Club Quarantine is what you need (March 22, 2020)

American spring (June 22, 2020)

The essential and enduring strength of John Lewis (July 18, 2020)

What Black History should have already taught us (November 5, 2020)

Why impeachment doesn't work (February 22, 2021)

Shaka King grapples with Hollywood and history (February 25, 2021)

How parties die (March 15, 2021)

The free state of George Floyd (July 12 and 19, 2021)

The man behind Critical Race Theory (September 20, 2021)

The power of Dave Chapelle's comedy (October 24, 2021)

Why I quit Elon Musk's Twitter (November 27, 2022)

Hip-Hop at fifty: an elegy (March 16, 2023)

Unpardonable (September 3, 2023)

Black Lives cost (2023)

2016 and 2024 (November 7, 2024)

Epilogue.