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We’ve Reached the End of White Christian America – Daniel Lombroso and Caitlin Cadieux / The Atlantic Video
The United States is no longer a majority white, Christian country, and that is already beginning to have profound social and political implications. At 45…
The Real Nat Turner by Molefi Kete Asante / Temple University
Asian-Americans Continue To Drift Away From The GOP, But It’s A Complicated Story – Kat Chow / NPR
The formerly incarcerated are facing crippling prison debt when they get out, and it needs to stop – Larry Schwartztol and Abby Shafroth / Slate
Donald Trump’s strategy for minority Americans? Don’t let them vote – The Editorial Board / The Wash Post
Go Back to China’: Readers Respond to Racist Insults Shouted at a New York Times Editor – Michael Luo / NYT
How the Stress of Racism Affects Learning – Melinda D. Anderson / The Atlantic
For 15-year-old Zion Agostini, the start of each school day is a new occasion to navigate a minefield of racial profiling. From an early age,…
Beyond the pale: White privilege thy name is Donald Trump – Chauncey Devega / Salon
Donald Trump’s confused portrait of black America – Danny Vinik / Politico
Biracial, and also Black – Martha S. Jones / CNN
A Great Fight of Our Times – Is Progress at Risk for African American Families? David Leonhardt / NYT
WATCH: An Undefeated Conversation with President Obama : Sports, Race and Achievement – Stan Verrett / The Undefeated
President Barack Obama visited the campus of North Carolina A&T State University in Greensboro for the first time Tuesday to participate in a forum on…
Past Voices – W.E.B. Du Bois -From Assimilationist to Antiracist / Race Inquiry
In the September 1933 issue of The Crisis, Du Bois published “On Being Ashamed,” a look back at the lifelong course of his own thinking,…
It’s the 50th Anniversary of the Black Power Movement – Sylviane A. Diouf and Komozi Woodward / The New Press via Alternet
Donald Trump’s unbelievable new statement about the Central Park 5 – Aaron Ruper / ThinkProgress
Donald Trump’s long history of racism, from the 1970s to 2016 – German Lopez / Vox
Prison Uprisings, From Attica to Today – Tim Barker / Dissent
Since September 9, thousands of prisoners in at least twenty-four states across the country have joined a series of strikes and protests demanding “an end…
Mumia Abu-Jamal on Mass Incarceration Under a Black President – Amy Goodman / Democracy Now
Former Black Panther Mumia Abu-Jamal calls from prison to discuss mass incarceration under Obama, being denied hepatitis C treatment, and the 50th anniversary of the…
Alabama’s Failure of Moral Turpitude – Mark Joseph Stern / Slate
Being black shouldn’t mean a longer prison sentence – Marc H. Morial / USA Today
We’re All a Little Biased, Even if We Don’t Know It – Emily Badger / NYT
The perfect spot for a reckoning with Reconstruction – Gregory P. Downs and Kate Masur
The Perversion of Pepe the Frog – Jeet Heer / New Republic
Racial Profiling in Preschool – The Editorial Board / NYT
Before European Christians Forced Gender Roles, Native Americans Acknowledged 5 Genders – Pearson McKinney / Bipartisan Report
Hollywood’s Complex History Of Portraying Slavery On Screen -Zeba Bay / Huff Post
The Birth of a Nation” reminds us how depictions of slavery reflect how we think about race. When the first trailer for Nate Parker’s “The…
Review: ‘Birth of a Nation’ is an amazing work of art – Brian Truitt / USA Today
With not-so-civil disobedience, Nat Turner forcefully fought for his people’s freedom more than 100 years before there was such a thing as a civil rights movement. He has…