Scholars of Poverty and Inequality Face Their Own Racial Reckoning Scholars of Poverty and Inequality Face Their Own Racial Reckoning
Beliefs about Black cultural deficiencies show up regularly in the field of inequality and poverty studies. It’s time to call that what it is: racism.
Aug 25, 2020 / Nicole Sussner Rodgers and Deadric T. Williams
At the RNC, Republicans Go All In on Police Impunity At the RNC, Republicans Go All In on Police Impunity
As Jacob Blake lay in his hospital bed, Republicans began their convention by defending “the Blue” and refusing to say Black lives matter.
Aug 25, 2020 / Elie Mystal
Birtherism 2.0 Birtherism 2.0
Trump spreads doubt about Kamala Harris’s citizenship.—news reports No citizen, though Oakland-born, Hints Donald and his claque— Just like Obama, culpable Of being born while bla…
Aug 25, 2020 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Our Future is Intersectional Our Future is Intersectional
Biden-Harris, ticket out of Trumpland.
Aug 25, 2020 / OppArt / Andrea Arroyo
How Federal Housing Programs Failed Black America How Federal Housing Programs Failed Black America
In Race for Profit, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor shows how even those housing policies that sought to create more Black homeowners were stymied by racism and a determination to shr...
Aug 25, 2020 / Books & the Arts / Marcia Chatelain
The Kids Are Getting Pepper-Sprayed The Kids Are Getting Pepper-Sprayed
Kids as young as 10 years old were among the 200 peaceful student protesters that Chicago police surrounded—tackling, pepper-spraying, and arresting several.
Aug 25, 2020 / StudentNation / Mary Retta
USPS Out of Sorts USPS Out of Sorts
The postmaster general undermines voting-by-mail.
Aug 24, 2020 / OppArt / Peter Kuper
The Color of Contagion The Color of Contagion
The pandemic has intensified racial disparities. We have to address them without reinforcing them.
Aug 24, 2020 / Feature / Patricia J. Williams
How Yale Became the Latest Target in the Plot to Kill Affirmative Action How Yale Became the Latest Target in the Plot to Kill Affirmative Action
In the coming days, the DOJ will borrow a page from the conservative playbook and likely sue Yale for violating the rights of white and Asian students.
Aug 24, 2020 / Column / Elie Mystal
73 Days Until We Can Vote Him Out 73 Days Until We Can Vote Him Out
Nearly 20,000 false claims since 2017 that are costing lives.
Aug 22, 2020 / OppArt / Josh Gosfield