Race
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Before Tuesday, the Louisiana churches had received less than $100,000 in donations.
His views match those of experts within the Department of Justice — just not the White House.
Lesley McSpadden lost her race for the Ferguson City Council on Tuesday night.
After racist incidents at schools in Charlottesville and the Bronx, students have taken action to make school officials address deeper inequities.
A Republican representative described Adolf Hitler as a socialist and compared Democrats to Nazis. Sadly, Rep. Brooks is far from alone in his opinions.
Karle Robinson says police monitored him for weeks after the August 2018 incident, and refused to let him file a complaint.
Democratic Socialists of America endorsed Sanders on Thursday, despite pushback from some members over his comments on reparations.
America’s broken education system fails poor black and Hispanic students well before college application season.
A new book explains how racism gets whites to support policies that hurt them.
Deeyah Khan, a Muslim woman, met her enemies — and came away more hopeful than ever.
Members of the “Cartersville 70” were arrested after a small amount of marijuana was found at a house party. They say the arrest turned their lives “into a nightmare.”
Hambrick’s family says poor training and a police culture of “fear, violence, racism, and impunity” played a role in his death.
A new lawsuit from a Detroit man subjected to 911 calls for “gardening while black” could offer a way forward for other victims of recent racial profiling incidents.
Fairfax made the remarks in an unplanned speech on Sunday.
A new documentary, The Green Book: Guide to Freedom, looks at how the historic travel guide helped black motorists.
Author John Strausbaugh on why blackface keeps coming back.
A law professor explains how corporations commodify people of color.
Kaepernick’s lawyer and the NFL announced a confidential settlement in the collusion case on Friday.
The embattled governor’s fight for redemption is just beginning.
A bigger conversation about blackface’s history and its continued use is finally beginning to unfold.
Two top elected Democratic officials in Virginia wore blackface in the 1980s. But does a racist action require racist intent?
Nearly three months after Jemel Roberson’s death, officials have released video of the aftermath of the shooting.
Two years after centering appeals to Trump voters, the party is moving in a different direction.
Start Black History Month by giving it a read.
Nearly one year after the shooting, the district attorney has not announced if the officers will be charged.
Browder’s incarceration and 2015 suicide called national attention to the ways the justice system irreparably alters the lives of people of color.
A conversation with Emory historian Carol Anderson.
How a rarely discussed religious group became part of the viral Covington story.
How the world’s best basketball player became a political force for racial justice.
The ruling comes months after Van Dyke was convicted on charges of second-degree murder and aggravated battery.
The battle over Confederate monuments is still raging — and states are losing.
A judge ruled that the officers did not break the law when they filed reports backing Jason Van Dyke’s account of the 2014 shooting.
The conspiracy trial challenging the Chicago Police Department’s “code of silence,” explained.
The Liberty Counsel claims federal apologies for lynching are being used to ”push unrelated political agendas.”
Barnes’s death wasn’t a hate crime, but it was amplified by a very real fear of them.
The movie is named after guides published for black travelers in segregated America. But its spin is all Hollywood.
Jazmine Barnes’s family have said that they believe her death was racially motivated.
Stories of “Living While Black” were a reminder of how public spaces are still controlled along racial lines.
The alt-right is obsessed with the 19th-century German philosopher. They don’t understand him.
How two complementary extremisms are defining global politics.