Rikers Island is New York City’s largest jail. It has also been ranked as one of the 10 worst jails in America. Of the more…
The choices made by white men, who are prepared to abandon their humanity out of fear of black men and women, suggest the true horror…
The compulsion to engage the Charleston area’s complex history as a slave-trading center was, for the writer, a visceral thing, akin to the urge to…
On the stage of the legendary Apollo Theater, original members Michael “Wonder Mike” Wright and Guy “Master Gee” O’Brien cruised through portions of their original…
Fewer people voted in this election than voted in 2012,” notes Juan González, journalist and Democracy Now! co-host, but he argues that data from Latino…
The Rev. William Barber gave the sermon Sunday at a 5 p.m. service staged by the Charlotte Clergy Coalition for Justice. Barber, who founded the…
After Barack Obama and Donald Trump met on Thursday in the Oval Office—this was the first time they’d ever formally met, which makes sense, I…
Donald J. Trump campaigned on the slogan “Make America Great Again,” a phrase whose “great” was widely heard as “white.” Certainly the election has been…
The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line.” W. E. B. DuBois, The Souls of Black Folk . America’s racial…
Insert Trump for Goldwater. Malcolm X’s commentary on Goldwater running for president in 1964 is eerily relevant to our elections today. Watch here
If one studies history, this is not a surprising outcome,” award-winning racial justice reporter Nikole Hannah-Jones says about Donald Trump’s election win. She points to…
Donald J. Trump is president-elect of the United States. Now there’s a sentence I never thought I’d write. Against all odds and against all forms…
I began election night writing a column that started with words from an immigrant, my friend Lesley Goldwasser, who came to America from Zimbabwe in…
O, yes, I say it plain, America never was America to me, And yet I swear this oath — America will be!” — Langston Hughes,…
