Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

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In her 2020 book Caste, just released in paperback, Isabel Wilkerson — of Emory, Princeton, and the New York Times — makes a bold claim: the United States of America has a caste system, and historical ...

U.S. cities are deeply segregated, often with streets or highways separating higher-income predominantly White neighborhoods from lower-income predominantly Black ones. This is not an accident of ...

The power of an analogy is twofold: it can make something relatable, or it can completely turn upside down all of our preconceived notions. Isabel Wilkerson seeks to do the latter in her most recent ...

Researching her new book “Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents” so disturbed Isabel Wilkerson that its acknowledgments thank the music that helped her get through it. The follow-up to Wilkerson’s ...

Residents of a Delhi slum fill buckets with water to clean mud from their huts after a monsoon rainfall in July. “Throughout human history,” Isabel Wilkerson writes, “three caste systems have stood ...

The author of “The Nest” and “Lake Effect” discusses some books that shed light on the era’s changing moral standards.

In March 2008, Barack Obama’s presidential campaign nearly imploded when reporters revealed that his pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr., regularly blasted the United States as irredeemably racist. “[The ...

The beloved star will also be the first-ever guest editor for Apple News Sam Gillette is a Staff Writer on the Human Interest team at PEOPLE. She first joined PEOPLE in 2016. Oprah Winfrey revealed ...

“If people were given the choice between democracy and whiteness, how many would choose whiteness?” Taylor Branch, the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian of the civil rights movement, drops that ...