Race and Ethnicity

The Truth About Race In America: It’s Getting Worse, Not Better

The Truth About Race In America: It’s Getting Worse, Not Better The Truth About Race In America: It’s Getting Worse, Not Better

Schools are resegregating, it’s getting harder to vote, too many are incarcerated—America is becoming more separate and less equal.

May 21, 2014 / Column / Gary Younge

We’re Going to Be Talking About Reparations This Year

We’re Going to Be Talking About Reparations This Year We’re Going to Be Talking About Reparations This Year

The labor of generations of black bodies has created massive amounts of wealth for everyone but the people whose work was exploited. And we’ve continued to suffer the consequ...

May 16, 2014 / Mychal Denzel Smith

How a ‘New Secessionist’ Movement Is Threatening to Worsen School Segregation and Widen Inequalities How a ‘New Secessionist’ Movement Is Threatening to Worsen School Segregation and Widen Inequalities

Sixty years after Brown, whiter, wealthier communities are breaking away from racially and economically diverse school districts.

May 15, 2014 / Susan Eaton

After Jackson Loses Its Radical Mayor, a Movement Spreads in the South

After Jackson Loses Its Radical Mayor, a Movement Spreads in the South After Jackson Loses Its Radical Mayor, a Movement Spreads in the South

Still mourning Chokwe Lumumba, progressives gather to push his vision for worker-owned co-ops.

May 14, 2014 / Laura Flanders

The Tactics Change, but the Police State Stays the Same

The Tactics Change, but the Police State Stays the Same The Tactics Change, but the Police State Stays the Same

Police will continue to abuse the rights of the already marginalized because we, as American citizens, refuse to question the fundamental goals of policing.

May 13, 2014 / Mychal Denzel Smith

The Downfall of the Latest Republican Folk Hero

The Downfall of the Latest Republican Folk Hero The Downfall of the Latest Republican Folk Hero

This cartoon hillbilly who hates the government seemed like such a promising new conservative icon. 

May 13, 2014 / Tom Tomorrow

No One Cares If You Never Apologize for Your White Male Privilege

No One Cares If You Never Apologize for Your White Male Privilege No One Cares If You Never Apologize for Your White Male Privilege

There are no American institutions of power that are founded on wholesale discrimination against white men. That’s not the case for the rest of us.

May 5, 2014 / Mychal Denzel Smith

Will HRC Do Right By the South?

Will HRC Do Right By the South? Will HRC Do Right By the South?

Southern organizers have tips on how the LGBT group can make its foray into the region work. HRC responds: “We got this.”

May 1, 2014 / Dani McClain

Cracking Down on Subway Dancers Is Just Another Way of Criminalizing Black Youth

Cracking Down on Subway Dancers Is Just Another Way of Criminalizing Black Youth Cracking Down on Subway Dancers Is Just Another Way of Criminalizing Black Youth

The ease with which we criminalize and abuse black youth in this country would be astounding if it weren’t so routine.

May 1, 2014 / Mychal Denzel Smith

Learning From Mexico

Learning From Mexico Learning From Mexico

Richard Rodriguez’s vision of racial mixing as New World destiny.

Apr 30, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Daniel Brook

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