Featured – The Confederacy’s ‘Living Monuments.’ The Daughters of the Confederacy’s primary objective was to instill in Southern white youth a reverence for Confederate principles. Indeed,…
Featured – Hanged, Burned, Shot, Drowned, Beaten. In a region where symbols of the Confederacy are ubiquitous, an unprecedented memorial takes shape. It will be…
Featured – Taking a knee has always been a sign of reverence, not disrespect. Kneeling as a sign of veneration is clearly not something Trump…
Featured – ‘Sisterhood’ Felt Meaningless. So My Sisters and I Got in the Car. We wanted to find women who could remind us that another, more…
Featured – The Racial Demagoguery of Trump’s Assaults on Colin Kaepernick and Steph Curry. Every day, and in countless and unexpected ways, Donald Trump, the…
Featured – How America can respond to the ‘whitelash.’ It’s time to reckon with our shared racial history, and plot a path forward. Deeply disturbed…
Featured – White House Rejects Supremacist Label: “No One Has Done More Than Trump to Prove White People Are Not Superior.”White House press secretary, Sarah…
Featured – Inequality crisis: Blacks and Latinos on the road to zero wealth. No savings, investments or home equity. This economic dystopia looms for minority…
Feature – The First White President. The foundation of Donald Trump’s presidency is the negation of Barack Obama’s legacy. It is insufficient to state the obvious of…
Feature – Trump’s Move to End DACA and Echoes of the Immigration Act of 1924. The policy was so defiantly and arrogantly racist that, as…
Feature – White Elephant. Trump has never been less popular—and never more clearly the head of a party of racial resentment. And yet, few Republican…
Feature – White ‘Power’ and the Fear of Replacement. When white nationalists converged in Charlottesville, Va., ostensibly to protest the removal of a statue of…
Feature – Warning signs of mass violence – in the US? There are those who say that comparing President Donald Trump’s rhetoric to that of Adolf Hitler…
Feature – Confederate Statues and ‘Our’ History. President Trump’s Thursday morning tweet lamenting that the removal of Confederate statues tears apart “the history and culture…
Featured – ‘The civil war lies on us like a sleeping dragon’: America’s deadly divide – and why it has returned. The years leading up…
Feature – Trump Knows Exactly What He’s Doing. President Trump’s press conference was the clearest and most precise articulation of a view that Trump has…
Feature – Charlottesville and the Bigotocracy. The late, great Gore Vidal said that we live in “The United States of Amnesia.” Our fatal forgetfulness flares…
Featured – Short Documentary, Abbeville, is Released by the Equal Justice Initiative. The film follows community members committed to spreading the truth about the lynching…
Featured – The Policies of White Resentment. White resentment put Donald Trump in the White House. And there is every indication that it will keep…
Featured – James Baldwin: How to Cool It : Read the landmark 1968 Q&A on race in America. In Esquire’s July 1968 issue, published just…
Feature – 100 Years Ago African-Americans Marched Down Fifth Avenue to Declare that Black Lives Matter. The “Silent Protest Parade” was the first mass African-American…
Feature – What We Know — And Don’t Know — About Hate Crimes in America. Hate crimes and bias incidents are a national problem, but…
Feature – The Racial and Religious Paranoia of Trump’s Warsaw Speech. When the president says being Western is the essence of America’s identity, he’s in…
Feature – Trump Can’t Reverse the Decline of White Christian America. Two-thirds of those who voted for the president felt his election was the “last…
Feature – American Dignity on the Fourth of July. Reading Frederick Douglass’s Independence Day address from 1852 may ease the despair caused by listening to President…
Feature – American Dignity on the Fourth of July. Reading Frederick Douglass’s Independence Day address from 1852 may ease the despair caused by listening to President…
Feature – The Fight for Health Care Has Always Been About Civil Rights. In dismantling Obamacare and slashing Medicaid, Republicans would strike a blow against…
Feature – Sacrificing Black Lives for the American Lie. Americans refuse to see their country as a place where racist politicians and judges maintain laws…