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The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
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by Kellie Carter Jackson
Published Nov 2025
Read ReviewsA radical reframing of the past and present of Black resistance—both nonviolent and violent—to white supremacy.
by Mark Whitaker
Published May 2025
Read ReviewsPublished to coincide with the hundredth anniversary of his birth, the first major study of Malcolm X's influence in the sixty years since his assassination, exploring his enduring impact on culture, politics, and civil rights.
by Leah Sottile
Published Mar 2025
Read ReviewsAn investigation of the New Age movement in America that aims to understand its appeal to women and the self-proclaimed prophetesses, like Love Has Won's Amy Carlson, who've created kingdoms for themselves within it.
by Clint Smith
Published Dec 2022
Read ReviewsThe Atlantic staff writer and poet Clint Smith's revealing, contemporary portrait of America as a slave owning nation.
by Scott Ellsworth
Published May 2022
Read ReviewsMore than one-thousand homes and businesses. Restaurants and movie theaters, churches and doctors' offices, a hospital, a public library, a post office. Looted, burned, and bombed from the air.
by Robert P. Jones
Published Jul 2021
Read ReviewsDrawing on history, public opinion surveys, and personal experience, Robert P. Jones delivers a provocative examination of the unholy relationship between American Christianity and white supremacy, and issues an urgent call for white Christians to reckon with this legacy for the sake of themselves and the nation.
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