Volcanoes are erupting in The Philippines, but on-fire Australia received some welcome rain. The Iran war cries have been called off and The Donald’s military powers are about to be hamstrung by the Senate. Meanwhile, his impeachment trial is starting, and we’re all on Twitter for a front-row seat.
Tag: Race
07/20/2022
Heather McGhee Is Telling Untold Stories About Solidarity in a New Podcast
For an expansion of her best-selling book, The Sum of Us, the political commentator traveled around the country looking for examples of people working together to overcome racism.
06/19/2022
Evanston, Illinois Is the First City to Offer Reparations to Black Residents
In “an extraordinarily commendable first step,” families whose descendants experienced housing discrimination can receive $25,000.
06/01/2022
Can We Transcend Race While Fighting Racism?
Writer Thomas Chatterton Williams on the moment his understanding of race shifted and what we need to unlearn to be truly anti-racist.
05/16/2022
Opinion: The politics of white backlash and the endless cycle of racial violence, division, and anger
The 19th-century ‘Lost Cause’ advocates have become the 21st-century defenders of a racial status quo many thought relegated to history’s dustbin in the aftermath of Barack Obama’s election.
05/13/2022
Opinion: The Supreme Court is about to take a huge step away from racial justice
The Supreme Court's likely evisceration of Roe v. Wade is more than an assault on women. It will be a further perpetuation of racial injustice in America that has a long history.
05/03/2022
Opinion: Blackness and Standard English Can Coexist. Professors, Take Note.
In March, at the annual Conference on College Composition and Communication, one panel presentation was of particular interest.
04/09/2022
Randall Kennedy on Racism, Critical Race Theory, and the Need for (Chastened) Optimism
Randall Kennedy and Yascha Mounk discuss how race has left its mark on American law.
03/15/2022
Senate vote makes Shalanda Young first Black woman to lead White House budget office
The Senate voted Tuesday to confirm Shalanda Young as director of the White House Office of Management and Budget, making her the first Black woman to hold the position.
02/28/2022
House Passes Bill to Make Lynching a Hate Crime
Lawmakers in both parties hailed the action as historic, but a separate bill to outlaw discrimination based on a person’s natural hair failed amid Republican opposition.
02/10/2022
The Role of Racial Resentment in Our Politics
The parties seem further apart on questions of race today than they have been for some time—but the truth is more complicated.
12/21/2021
Is “Wokism” a Religion? | A Conversation with John McWhorter
The modern antiracist movement, often referred to as the Woke movement, has provoked backlash for seemingly seeking to deplatform and censor Americans with dissenting points of view, and attributing racism to wide swaths of American society.
12/20/2021