BIDEN SEEKS TO CLARIFY COMMENT THAT LATINO COMMUNITY IS DIVERSE, ‘UNLIKE THE AFRICAN AMERICAN COMMUNITY’. Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden sought Thursday night to limit the political damage after he said […]
LINCOLN LIBRARY CANCELS EXHIBITION OVER RACIAL SENSITIVITY CONCERNS. In recent weeks the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum in Springfield, Ill., canceled the exhibition’s engagement there, citing concerns from visitors […]
THE REAL SWING VOTERS ARE YOU BLACK AMERICANS — AND THEY’RE NOT SOLD ON BIDEN OR ON VOTING. Only 47% of those Black Americans under 30 years old that we surveyed plan […]
VIDEO SHOWS FLORIDA ‘KAREN’ USE RACIAL SLUR AGAINST LANDSCAPERS IN TIRADE. A Florida woman was recorded repeatedly calling landscapers the N-word in a caught-on-camera tirade. Footage posted to Instagram showed the […]
TRUMP’S RACISM WON’T WIN THE SUBURBS. BUT IT MAY DIVERSIFY THEM. The United States is full of lily-white, deep-blue suburbs with lawn signs that shout Black Lives Matter — and […]
DEMOCRATS PROPOSE REQUIRING FED TO REDUCE INEQUALITY IN U.S. The Federal Reserve Racial and Economic Equity Act would amend the Federal Reserve Act and mandate that the U.S. central bank specifically work […]
FREE SPEECH IS RACIAL TOO. Free speech is a bulwark of American political culture, and University President Christopher Eisgruber ’83’s recent op-ed piece states that it is crucial to Princeton’s culture as […]
EX-ATLANTA OFFICER WANTS HIS JOB BACK, RAYSHARD BROOKS’ WIDOW WANTS HIM IN JAIL. Garrett Rolfe, facing felony murder and other charges in the June 12 shooting death of Rayshard Brooks, […]
BLACK EMPLOYEES AT NIKE OBJECT TO COMPANY’S NEW AD. A group of black Nike employees voiced repeated objections to the release of a recent ad by the company, people familiar […]
WNBA PLAYERS UNITE IN SUPPORT OF KELLY LOEFFLER’S OPPONENT IN U.S. SENATE RACE. WNBA players are not hiding their disdain for Kelly Loeffler. The Atlanta Dream co-owner and Republican U.S. […]
CAN YOU FORM A SCHOOL POD WITHOUT FUELING INEQUALITY? THESE GROUPS ARE TRYING. Angie Evans was determined to make online learning for her children better this fall…. But like many […]
THE HISTORY OF THE FILIBUSTER AS ‘JIM CROW RELIC’. Historians told PolitiFact that the filibuster did not emerge from debates over slavery or segregation. However, they agreed that the parliamentary […]
WHAT TO STREAM: “THE WELL,” A DARING DRAMA ABOUT A RACE RIOT IN A SMALL TOWN. Oscar nominations, as history has shown, are hardly a guarantee of a movie’s merits—but, […]
TWO MONTHS AFTER BLACKOUT TUESDAY, THE MUSIC INDUSTRY HAS YET TO SEE LAST CHANGE. In the months since George Floyd was killed at the hands of police in Minneapolis, protests […]
BLACK-OWNED BUSINESSES HIT HARDER DURING PANDEMIC AND NEED MORE AID, FED PAPER SAYS. Just 20% of Paycheck Protection Program loans went to areas that had the highest concentration of Black-owned businesses. […]
FROM MEGAN THREE STALLION TO BREONNA TAYLOR, BLACK WOMEN’S TRAUMA DESERVES BETTER THAN MEMES. For weeks now memes about Breonna Taylor, the EMT who was fatally shot by Louisville police on […]