InequalityMarch 1, 2022
The Pandemic Deepened Fault Lines in American Society
COVID energized the Black Lives Matter movement—and provoked a dangerous backlash
Stories by Aldon Morris
Aldon Morris is Leon Forrest Professor of Sociology and African American Studies at Northwestern University and a previous president of the American Sociological Association. His landmark books include The Origins of the Civil Rights Movement (1986) and The Scholar Denied: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Birth of Modern Sociology (2015).
BehaviorFebruary 3, 2021
From Civil Rights to Black Lives Matter
Protest expert Aldon Morris explains how social justice movements succeed
OpinionAugust 3, 2020
We’ll Never Fix Systemic Racism by Being Polite
Contrary to the sanitized version we sometimes hear about the civil rights movement, change was not achieved solely by protest marches and people singing “We Shall Overcome”