David Dent

David J. Dent is a professor of journalism and social and cultural analysis at New York University and the author of In Search of Black America.

TURNING POINT

‘A Sad Day’ for Republicans in Obama-Trump Counties

The counties that went from Obama to Trump mostly stuck with Trump over Biden, and people there are still processing the election, and everything that's happened since.

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‘ARE THEY GOING TO EXPERIMENT ON ME AGAIN?’

Black Doctors Try to Get Through to Vaccine Resisters

“We have to educate people so that we can get the community vaccinated. We have a big responsibility.”

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‘I’LL RETHINK THIS’

More Black Men Went With Trump This Time. I Asked a Few Why.

The shift could signal growing Black impatience with the perceived failures of white liberalism to rectify racial inequities.

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‘NO MORE OF THIS STUFF’

BLM Activists Court Trump Converts in Crossover Counties

Voters in Iowa counties that went from Obama in 2008 and 2012 to Trump in 2016 were already struggling to come to grips with 2020. Then came the protests.

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Safe, Not Sorry

These Terrified Black Americans Are Packing Heat

Black gun ownership was already taking off in the Trump era. Then a deluge of horrific killings raised the stakes even higher.

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David Dent

‘A Sad Day’ for Republicans in Obama-Trump Counties

Black Doctors Try to Get Through to Vaccine Resisters

More Black Men Went With Trump This Time. I Asked a Few Why.

BLM Activists Court Trump Converts in Crossover Counties

These Terrified Black Americans Are Packing Heat

What Trump’s Black Male Supporters Say They See in Him

COVID-19 Is Ravaging a Black Church in Rural Georgia