YARA SHAHIDI IS A NEW KIND OF YOUNG HOLLYWOOD MOGUL. Ask Yara Shahidi how she self-identifies and she will reply that she is not an activist but “a creative and […]
‘RACISM AT MY JOB LITERALLY GAVE ME PTSD’ . The day of my annual performance review, I sat in my office unable to focus on anything but how much my […]
A BLACK MARXIST SCHOLAR WANTED TO TALK ABOUT RACE. IT IGNITED A FURY. Adolph Reed is a son of the segregated South…who organized poor Black people and antiwar soldiers in […]
HOW TO STUDY RACIAL DISPARITIES. To understand the causes of unequal treatment, researchers need to be sensitive to the statistical, conceptual and historical complexities associated with race…. [T]he importance of […]
THE QUIET GROWTH OF RACE-DETECTION SOFTWARE SPARKS CONCERNS OVER BIAS. When Revlon Inc. wanted to know what lipstick women of different races and in different countries were wearing, the cosmetics giant didn’t need […]
H.P. LOVECRAFT WAS A VIRULENT RACIST. HOW ‘LOVEC RAFT COUNTRY’ CONFRONTS HIS LEGACY. In the new HBO series “Lovecraft Country,” a young Black Korean War veteran named Atticus “Tic” Freeman (Jonathan Majors) […]
HARRIS VP PICK HIS HISTORIC BEYOND RACE AND GENDER. SHE’S BREAKING THE HEMISPHERIC CEILING TOO. It’s hard to overstate how hugely historic a Black woman on a major-party U.S. presidential […]
‘AN UNDERSTANDING OF HISTORY REMINDS US RACE IS A SOCIAL CONSTRUCT’. In the 19th century, beliefs in the biological exceptionalism of non-white people prompted serious investigations into the possibility that […]
NATION’S WEALTHIEST BLACK MAN SAYS CORPORATE AMERICA SHOULD CONSIDER SLAVERY REPARATIONS. Robert Smith, who made headlines last year when he shocked the graduating class of the historically Black Morehouse College […]
RACIAL MINORITIES ARE OVER-REPRESENTED IN SALT LAKE COUNTY HOMELESS SYSTEM. The disparities are largest among African Americans, who make up 12.6% of those receiving homeless services but only 2.2% of […]
PROTESTERS TO CHURCHILL DOWNS: IF YOU CARE ABOUT RACIAL JUSTICE, CANCEL THE KENTUCKY DERBY. To continue on with a celebratory event such as the Derby, said Timothy Findley, a senior […]
SUPPORT FOR A PROGRAM TO PAY REPARATIONS TO DESCENDANTS OF SLAVES IS GAINING MOMENTUM, BUT COULD COME WITH A $12 TRILLION PRICE TAG. Reparations for slavery has been fiercely discussed […]
WHY ONE ACTIVIST IN CHARLOTTESVILLE WON’T GIVE UP. For Constance Paige Young, who was among the counterprotesters injured in Charlottesville, Va., three years ago, after a white man drove his […]
NEW GOP HEADACHE AS CANDIDATE CONDEMNED FOR RACIST VIDEOS WINS REPUBLICAN PRIMARY. Marjorie Taylor Greene has won the GOP nomination for a deep red congressional seat in Georgia despite widespread […]
EFFA MANLEY FOUGHT FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE AND THE NEGRO LEAGUES. If you look deep into the history of the Baseball Hall of Fame, you will find one club owner enshrined […]
RACE EQUALITY CHIEF FACES LEGAL CHALLENGE OVER APPOINTMENT. Tony Sewell, the former head of an education charity, is Downing Street’s choice to lead the commission it set up in July […]