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…

 Feature –  Understanding Contemporary White Supremacy. Our panel of scholars on what we get wrong about white supremacy, and whether persecuting racists does any good. Read…

Feature – Philando Castile and This Savage System. My own experience on a grand jury showed me why so many young men of color are locked…

Feature – A Resolution Condemning White Supremacy Causes Chaos at the Southern Baptist Convention. At its annual meeting, the evangelical denomination initially declined to consider…

Feature – A Celebration of Black Lawyers, Past and Present.  Thurgood Marshall, pictured here at a meeting of the N.A.A.C.P. in the mid-nineteen-fifties, was one…

Feature – Yes, there is a free speech crisis. But its victims are not white men. Women, people of color and politicians standing up to…

Feature –  The Myth of the Kindly General Lee. The legend of the Confederate leader’s heroism and decency is based in the fiction of a…

Feature – Will Donald Trump Ever Say the Words ‘White Supremacist Terrorism’? POTUS loved whacking Hillary for not saying ‘Islamic fundamentalist terrorism.’ But how come when…

Feature –  Maryland and Manchester: We can’t let heinous attacks overseas obscure our homegrown terrorism problem.  Yes, Islamist extremism is a worldwide threat. But we’re…

Feature –  Mitch Landrieu Reminds Us That Eloquence Still Exists.  His speech on the removal of Confederate monuments in New Orleans is one of the…

Feature – If you truly knew what the N-word meant to our ancestors, you’d NEVER use it. It was used and still can be used…

Feature – Donald Trump’s Catastrophic Presidency Offers More Proof That Racism and Sexism Are Destroying America. This week’s Russian revelations are part of a larger pattern:…

Feature – Trump’s voter fraud commission is a shameless white power grab. There were only four documented cases of attempted voter fraud in the 2016…

Feature – A Call to Faith-Based Communities to Bring Dignity and Integrity to our Criminal Justice System.  “Our faith calls us to liberate the least…

Feature – Cruel Old Party. The Republican Party won control of government promising help. Help for the unemployed, help for the uninsured; help for the…

Feature – The Collapse of American Identity. These partisan portraits highlight contrasting responses to the country’s changing demographics and culture, especially over the past decade…