AMERICA’S RETIREMENT RACE GAP, AND IDEAS FOR CLOSING IT. The protest movement across the United States this summer has prompted a national conversation about ways to correct the acute economic […]
CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY FACES RACIAL RECKONING, AGAIN, IN WAKE OF PROFESSOR QUESTIONING KAMALA HARRIS’ CITIZENSHIP. Faculty, students and alumni from Chapman University say they’re embarrassed and worried about the school’s reputation […]
SAN DIEGO STATE TO PIONEER RACE RELATIONS REQUIREMENT IN CRIMINAL JUSTICE PROGRAM. Race relations will soon be required coursework for future police officers, prison guards and other criminal justice undergraduate […]
ROGER GOODELL OFFERS APOLOGY TO COLIN KAEPERNICK: ‘I WISH WE HAD LISTENED EARLIER’. “It is not about the flag. The message here, and what our players are doing, is being […]
WISCONSIN POLICE SHOOT BLACK MAN AS CHILDREN WATCH FROM VEHICLE. Two Wisconsin police officers are on leave Monday as state authorities investigate why a Black man was shot multiple times […]
HOUSING WILL TEST WHITE SUPPORT FOR BLACK LIVES. As a young housing activist in the early part of this decade, Jesse Kanson-Benanav started to notice that many liberal residents of […]
BIDEN’S CONVENTION EMBRACED RACIAL JUSTICE. BLM LEADERS SAW IT AS MOSTLY LIP SERVICE. The embrace of the movement against racial injustice was a dramatic shift from the party’s last convention four years […]
THE RACIAL ORIGINS OF FAT SHAMING. It was her grandmother’s stories … that inspired Sabrina Strings, who is now a sociology professor at the University of California, Irvine, to pursue […]
PORTLAND POLICE RESPOND TO SATURDAY NIGHT DEMONSTRATION WITH BLOCKADE, FORCE, RIOT DECLARATION. Portland police repeatedly blocked a march to an East Portland police building late Saturday before officers ultimately used […]
DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION TAKES ‘EARTH SHATTERING’ TURN WITH ITS FOCUS ON RACE. B-L-M block letters sat propped behind Elizabeth Warren in a Massachusetts classroom. Hillary Clinton urged people to vote “for […]
BLACK NEWBORNS MORE LIKELY TO DIE WHEN LOOKED AFTER BY WHITE DOCTORS. The mortality rate of Black newborns in hospital shrunk by between 39% and 58% when Black physicians took […]
THE UNOFFICIAL RACISM CONSULTANTS TO THE WHITE EVANGELICAL WORLD. In the weeks since George Floyd’s death, Philip Pinckney has been inundated with messages from white evangelical pastors who want to take […]
WHY ‘FEELING RIGHT’ ON RACE IS NOT—AND NEVER HAS BEEN—ENOUGH. Almost 170 years ago, Uncle Tom’s Cabin helped to propel many progressive, elite white women toward abolitionist sympathies. When President Abraham Lincoln, as […]
WHY BLACK CHRISTIANS ARE BRACING FOR A ‘WHITELASH’. Trillia Newbell, a Christian author, had just delivered a talk in Jackson, Tennessee, when a White man approached her. Newbell, who is […]
AMERICA’S HOUSE WILL CRUMBLE IF WE DON’T REPAIR OUR RACIST DIVIDE. When I was a young rabbi I served as an assistant rabbi in a large synagogue. There is the […]
HARRIS DUAL IDENTITIES CHALLENGE AMERICA’S RACE LABELS. It was just 20 years ago that the U.S. census began to allow Americans to identify as more than one race. And now, […]