**Jeet Heer**: [The New Republic’s Legacy on Race: From Du Bois to the Bell Curve](http://www.newrepublic.com/article/120884/new-republics-legacy-race): “Between the late ’30s and the mid-’70s…>…*The New Republic* was one of the best magazines outside the black press in its coverage of the rise of the civil rights movement. Thomas Sancton, Sr., managing editor from 1942–1943, was a particularly … Continue reading Afternoon Must-Read: Jeet Heer: The New Republic’s Legacy on Race: From Du Bois to the Bell Curve