The Forum is a source of reporting and commentary deploying the insights of critical race theory, and supplying the materials and organizing strategies to re-envision American democracy from the ground up.
OUR FOCUS
The Forum ’s goal is to fi ll in the gaping blindspots of a broken media ecosystem by centering the urgent demands of racial justice and democracy in the public discourse. As one of our major parties has descended into racialized and antidemocratic political violence, the nation’s corporate—and complicit—press consensus has worked to normalize the grave threat to our democracy as just a series of normal skirmishes to be assessed on an undeviating grid of news-cycle wins and losses. We aim to counteract this with writing that explores the grassroots mandates of democratic reform in our multiracial society; we treat politics not as the sport of elite insiders or as fodder for culture-war clickbait, but rather as the urgent business before us all as Americans seeking to redeem the battered promise of expansive, truly democratic self-rule and solidarity. The Forum is dedicated to blocking the current bad-faith authoritarian putsch everywhere it may surface—from the conspiracy-addled corners of social media to the highest reaches of conservative power. We’re committed to defending democratic values, economic equity, and racial inclusion against the rising tide of authoritarian bigotry and hatred and anti-intellectual reaction. As our name shows, we are also dedicated to becoming a meeting place for freedom-loving journalists, scholars, and organizers to discuss the ideas being viciously purged from major media outlets, universities, and public school classrooms. The stakes of defending and sustaining intellectual freedom—like the freedom to speak openly and think deeply about our racial past and present, and encouraging students to do likewise—have never been higher.
A critical race theory analysis of today’s political, educational and cultural scene—and a chronicle of the fi ght against resurgent white nationalism on the right
Dispatches from the battle to teach our true racial history—and to preserve and sustain the place of public education in American democracy
Reports on the struggle to safeguard the right to vote in a time of antidemocratic reaction
Reckonings with the decisive role of race and social power in America’s history and present
Cultural commentary from a CRT perspective
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