IOP's John Della Volpe points to backlash after the expulsion of two Black Tennessee legislators in their 20s after a gun-control rally in the wake of the Nashville school shooting.
Published on January 13, 2023 Racism, rather than being the exception to the rule of American democracy, was fundamental to how many of the country’s founders understood themselves and conceptions of citizenship, argues Khalil Gibran Muhammad, Ford Foundation Professor of history, race, and public policy and director of the Institutional Antiracism and Accountability Project at the Kennedy School’s Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation.