The demands of the civil rights movement went beyond affirmative action. We should find inspiration in their goals today
Jerome Karabel
Karabel is a Professor of Sociology Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley, and is currently writing a book, Outlier Nation: The Epochal History of How The United States Became a Country Like No Other. He is the author of the award-winning book, The Chosen: The Hidden History of Admission and Exclusion at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton and has previously written for The New York Times, The New York Review of Books, The Washington Post, The Nation, Le Monde Diplomatique, and other publications.
Canada has done a much better job than the U.S. on COVID-19. The differences are starkly visible on vaccination rates.
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