This year, the Derrick Bell Lecture on Race in American Society celebrates three decades of bringing leading scholars and ...

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Critical race theory was developed by Derrick Bell and other legal scholars in the 1970s and ’80s in part to explain how racism is embedded in legal systems and policies. But in recent years, a ...

Sally Kohn is a CNN political commentator, activist, host of the podcast State of Resistance and author of The Opposite of Hate: A Field Guide to Repairing Our ...

Bell was the first tenured black professor at Harvard Law School. He championed the idea that racism was ordinary, not exceptional, in American... Derrick Bell, the first tenured black professor at ...

On MSNBC last night, Harvard Professor Derrick Bell’s widow, Janet Dewart Bell denounced the “drum beat of negativity” from the right suggesting her husband was a racist. When asked by host Ed Schultz ...

The preface at the beginning of his book, Faces At The Bottom Of the Well, further explains his beliefs about race and society. “Even the poorest whites, those who must live their lives only a few ...