Letter: Leaving America Behind Amid the Turmoil of 1968
A reader reflects on the country’s racial struggles, then and now.
Five Decades of White Backlash
In January, Vann R. Newkirk II argued that the Trump presidency can be traced to the politics of white backlash in the wake of the civil-rights movement. “Trump’s only real concrete policies,” he wrote, “have been negations of King.”
“ … built on King's bones.” What a fine phrase.
’s article about the white backlash in
