FACING BLEAK NOVEMBER, REPUBLICANS LOOK TO STOKE BLM BACKLASH. For a brief moment after George Floyd was killed by a Minneapolis policeman in late May, some members of the GOP […]
STANDOFF AT STONE MOUNTAIN: ARMED WHITE SUPREMACIST GROUPS FIGHT BLM PROTESTORS AND ANTIFA DURING FAR-RIGHT RALLY AT NATION’S LARGEST CONFEDERATE MONUMENT. The Three Percenters militia had applied to hold the […]
BLACK LIVES MATTER MOVEMENT TO PLAY ELEVATED ROLE AT CONVENTION. The message of Black Lives Matter will be woven throughout the 2020 Democratic National Convention, starting with a focus on […]
‘THE PRESIDENT WAS NOT ENCOURAGING’: WHAT OBAMA REALLY THOUGHT ABOUT BIDEN. Past tensions between Obama’s camp and Biden’s camp have endured, forming some hairline fractures in the Democratic foundation. Some […]
PROTESTS MAY PROMPT DIALOGUE ON RACISM, BUT ‘IT’S GOING TO BE UNCOMFORTABLE’. When Le Hoang Nguyen put up a bright yellow billboard in support of the Black Lives Matter movement […]
BLACK PORTLAND REFLECTS ON ROLE OF WHITE ALLIES IN MOVEMENT. More than two months of intense protests in Portland, Oregon — one of America’s whitest major cities — have captured the world’s […]
SHOTS FIRED: DEADLY PORTLAND POLICE ENCOUNTERS REVEAL TROUBLING PATTERNS. It’s been 17 years since a Portland police officer fired a single shot at Kendra James, killing the young woman as she tried […]
‘I WAS WRONG TO CRITICIZE COLIN KAEPERNICK FOR KNEELING FOR NATIONAL ANTHEM’. Three years after she criticized NFL players for kneeling during the national anthem, the wife of Detroit Lions […]
WASHINGTON HIRES JASON WRIGHT, MAKING HIM FIRST BLACK PRESIDENT OF AN NFL TEAM. Wright, 38, is also the league’s youngest team president. A former running back, Wright played in the […]
BLACK COLLEGIATE GYMNASTS DESCRIBE CULTURE OF RACISM, ISOLATION. The often-insular world of college gymnastics is a sport now reckoning with a culture built around white athletes. And like other student-athletes […]
ALABAMA PUBLIC HOUSING PUT WHITES IN HIGH-RISE TOWERS. SAYS BLACKS ‘PREFER’ SUBSTANDARD GARDEN UNITS, HUD REPORT FINDS. The public housing authority in Alabama provided white people with riverfront towers with […]
A LETHAL TRAFFIC STOP IN GEORGIA. Images of Black death have become inescapable, yet footage of Momodou Lamin Sisay’s death remains elusive. Sisay was killed in Georgia on May 29 […]
SEVEN MAYORS, THREE CRISES, ONE TEXT THREAD. A brotherhood of Black mayors, mostly from the South, talk to one another on a group chat. As COVID-19, a cratering economy, and […]
14 BLACK ARTISTS ON LIFE IN AMERICA RIGHT NOW. The Artist Statements project is an ever-evolving creative tribute to the agonies and the ecstasies of Black American life—from police brutality and civil […]
MAYA RUDOLPH REACTS TO KAMALA HARRIS BEING NAMED BIDEN’S RUNNING MATE: ‘OH S–T’. Rudolph’s portrayal of Harris on the long-running sketch comedy series (Saturday Night Live) earned her an Emmy nomination for […]
I’M MOVING MY FAMILY TO CANADA TO SAVE MY BLACK SON FROM AMERICA. Every parent mourns the loss of innocence for their kid at some point—the first pet that dies […]