Opinion
How Black Writers Can Help White Readers – Theodore R. Johnson / The Nation
It was the racism, stupid: White working-class economic anxiety is a zombie idea that needs to die – Chauncey Devega / Salon
On Jan. 20, Donald Trump will become president of the United States of America. Donald Trump is an authoritarian and demagogue who meets the definition…
How Donald Trump Will Make America White Again – Julianne Hing / The Nation
Denzel Washington Doesn’t Think Hollywood Has A Colorism Problem – Zeba Blay / Huff Post
The invention of the white working class: The phrase of the year is racist hogwash – Les Leopold / Alternet
Black America Steels Itself for Obama’s Departure and a Future Under Trump -Barrett Holmes Pitner / The Daily Beast
It’s going to be painful for African Americans to watch Obama leave the White House only to be replaced by that man. And that’s just…
America Has Compensated Other Groups, But Obama Opposes Reparations for Black People. Why? David Love / Atl Black Star
As President Obama prepares to leave the White House, now is as good a time as any to reflect on the ways in which he…
The sixties produced a conviction that “democracy is in the streets.” The Trump era may echo that. – Jelani Cobb / The New Yorker
Which Way Does the Arc of Obama’s Moral Universe Bend? Joan Walsh / The Nation
Our first black president will turn over the White House next month to a man I took to calling the Orange Hindenburg, back when I…
How Trump’s victory turns into another ‘Lost Cause’ – John Blake and Twanda Scott Sambou / CNN
After President-elect Donald Trump’s recent victory, some of his supporters celebrated by flying Confederate battle flags from pickup trucks and waving them at rallies. But…
Black Life and Death in the Age of Obama – Kai Wright / The Nation
Any history of black people in America will have to look closely at the year 2014. In a cascading series of events that summer, the…
Why Are We Still Reliving the Nightmarish Death of Emmett Till? Dan Wakefield / The Nation
When I went to Mississippi to cover the trial, I had no idea that the story would become so relevant again more than 60 years…
Are younger whites less racist? New research about racial attitudes suggests demographics alone won’t save America – Chauncey Devega / Salon
Ta-Nihisi Coates on Obama, atheism, and becoming the guy “white people read to show they know something” – Ezra Klein / Vox
What Donald Trump Doesn’t Know About Black People – Michael Eric Dyson / NYT
Brothers in White Resentment: Donald Trump and Dylann Roof – Jamelle Bouie / Slate
Why We Need a National Monument to Reconstruction – Gregory P. Downs, Eric Foner and Kate Masur / NYT
Ralph Ellison’s “Invisible Man” as a Parable of Our Time – Clint Smith / The New Yorker
