To celebrate the 30th edition of the L.A. Times Festival of Books, we asked authors, editors, critics and scholars to select ...

When I tried to offer a different perspective last fall, my “Born in the Right Body: Desister and Detransitioner Awareness” ...

Two decades after Brown v. Board, the Supreme Court struck down a desegregation order—and paved the way for today’s retrenchment efforts.

L.B. With "The New Jim Crow," Michelle Alexander made legible to the public the deep and enduring systems of anti-Blackness that were so powerfully obscured during the so-called colorblind era.

One page, about the surrounding town, was rewritten in a way that incorporated two new mentions of slavery ... Shawn Leigh Alexander, a Du Bois biographer and professor at the University of ...

I would recommend “The New Jim Crow” by Michelle Alexander, which exposes systemic injustices and the need for legal and policy reforms. Additionally, “The Power Broker” by Robert Caro highlights how ...

White homeowners gain millions, while Black and Brown communities pay with their lives. Once promoted as “the winter ...