THROUGH THE RETAIL LENS: SHOPPER RESPONSE TO RETAIL’S RACIAL RECKONING. Todd Szahun, senior vice president of Kantar Retail, recently conducted research into the retail response to the current racial and […]
SATCHUEL COLE, LEADER IN THE FIGHT FOR RACIAL EQUALITY IN INDIANAPOLIS, LIED ABOUT OWN RACE. A high-profile Indiana activist known for racial and social justice advocacy has apologized for lying […]
IMPLICIT BIAS: ONLINE TEST CAPTURES OUR HIDDEN ATTITUDES ON RACE. More than two decades ago, Tony Greenwald and his colleagues debuted an online Implicit Association Test, also known as the IAT. […]
ROSA PARKS’ HOME DISPLAYED IN ITALY AS US RACE TENSIONS RISE. The run-down, paint-chipped Detroit house where U.S. civil rights icon Rosa Parks took refuge after her historic bus boycott […]
TWITTER CDO ACKNOWLEDGES ‘RACIST’ PHOTO ALGORITHM: ‘IT’S 100 PERCENT OUR FAULT’. Twitter’s chief design officer, Dantley Davis, has acknowledged evidence of racial bias in how a neural network used by […]
THE NOD’S BRITTANY LUSE EXPLORES BLACKNESS ON OUIBI. Brittany Luse remembers La La Anthony’s days as a highly-coveted VJ on MTV in the early aughts. She makes sure to mention that when […]
WHY IS INTEREST GROWING IN AMERICA’S BLACK COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES? Six months ago prospects looked dire for many historically black colleges and universities (hbcus): around 100 institutions, mostly in the South, […]
STUDY: INEQUALITY ROBS $2.5 TRILLION FROM U.S. WORKERS EACH YEAR. Every few months, some group of socially conscious number crunchers will remind Americans that a tiny elite is binge-eating the nation’s economic […]
WEALTHY BLM PROTESTER’S NOTES REVEAL PLAN TO OCCUPY NYC APARTMENTS. They can start with her place! The wealthy young woman accused of rioting in Lower Manhattan cooked up plans to take […]
RUTH BADER GINSBURG CAN LEARN SOMETHING FROM BRETT KAVANAUGH. [This opinion article was written by Paul Butler, a professor at Georgetown University Law Center.. It was originally published by the […]
THE DARK SIDE OF THE CULT OF RUTH BADER GINSBURG. Justice Ginsburg is an essential voice on the Supreme Court— but portraying her as a dissenter obscures the work of […]
NOTORIOUS. [This blog post was written by Dr. Leeja Carter, an Assistant Professor at Long Island University – Brooklyn. It was published September 9, 2018.] From time to time I’ll […]
SORRY, IT TURNS OUT RUTH BADER GINSBURG IS NOT YOUR LIBERAL CARTOON SUPERHERO AFTER ALL. [This article was written by Washington Post Reporter Caitlin Gibson. It was originally published October […]
BLACK SCHOLARS CONFRONT WHITE SUPREMACY IN CLASSICAL MUSIC. Martin Luther King, Jr., in his book “Stride Toward Freedom,” wrote, “On a cool Saturday afternoon in January 1954, I set out […]
A PRIVATE SWIM CLUB WAS ACCUSED OF SEGREGATION. THEN IT DISAPPEARED FROM THE INTERNET. Fifty miles west of New Orleans, along the twisting banks of theMississippi River, lies the unincorporated […]
DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR PLACE ON PAID LEAVE FOR USING N-WORD DURING LECTURE. A Duquesne University professor has been placed on paid leave after he used the N-word multiple times during an online lecture. A […]