Feature – Andrew Gillum and the Extent of the Progressive Revolution. Gillum—the thirty-nine-year-old, outspokenly progressive, African-American mayor of Tallahassee, Florida—is running for governor this year,…
Feature – ‘A shameful affair’: The last man lynched in Montgomery County, Md. Around 1 a.m., a lynch mob overpowered the county jailer and whisked…
Feature – Omarosa, Trump and the curse of being a black woman in America. “The most disrespected woman in America is the black woman. The…
Feature – Documenting ‘Slavery by Another Name’ in Texas. After the Civil War, many states imposed what the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Douglas Blackmon rightly describes as…
Feature – The path to autocracy is all too familiar. How do democratic countries get to the point where they give up on self-rule? Under…
Feature – We look back at the deadly rally in Charlottesville with a new documentary by Frontline PBS and ProPublica titled “Documenting Hate: Charlottesville.” We…
Feature – LeBron James, the most important athlete in America, explained. How the world’s best basketball player became a political force for racial justice. “No…
Feature – White Americans support welfare programs — but only for themselves, says new research. Donald Trump’s administration recently decided to give $12 billion to farmers…
Feature – In Georgia Governor’s Race, a Defining Moment for a Southern State. The Republican won the nomination Tuesday after branding himself a politically incorrect…
Feature – A Sociologist Examines the “White Fragility” That Prevents White Americans from Confronting Racism. In 2011, Robin DiAngelo coined the term “white fragility” to…
Feature – In Mandela speech, Obama offers nuanced approach to dealing with white anxiety and resentment. President Barack Obama gave a powerhouse speech this Tuesday…
Feature – The Real Threat to American Democracy Isn’t Russia. It’s the Right. A week ago, Norman Ornstein, a resident scholar at the American Enterprise…
Feature – The Quiet Death of Racial Progress. Unfortunately, this is not a comforting column. The deeper I dug into the evidence, the more I came…
Feature – Today, Equal Justice Initiative (EJI) released Segregation in America, a new report and companion website that documents how millions of white Americans joined…
Feature – These young black women made desegregation possible. We need to learn from their example. Black students are provided with a military escort at…
Feature – The Choice : Democracy or White Supremacy! This dilemma is as old as the founding of America. The Declaration of Independence of 1776 set forth the ideals…
Feature – How to Hold On to Hope. This horrible week was particularly stressful for minorities. A therapist who works with patients experiencing profound injustice…
Feature – The GOP’s Racist Rot Began Long Before Trump. The Republican Party is in tatters. After spending decades investing in hyper-partisan, mean-spirited political shenanigans…
Feature – Michael Eric Dyson: Donald Trump is “what black people have warned America about.” Sociologist and best-selling author says Trump is no “aberration from…
Feature – White People Are Noticing Something New: Their Own Whiteness. Being white in America has long been treated, at least by white people, as…
Feature – A Radically Woke and Deeply Conservative Commencement Address. At Pomona College, Danielle Allen spoke about the Declaration of Independence and its electric cord….
Feature – Donald Trump’s empire of disorientation: Where the future is the past, made worse. Trump wants to turn back the clock — but how…
Feature – The Philadelphia Eagles and “their President”: Trump’s act of potent symbolic racism. Trump disinvited the NFL champs to an event they didn’t want…
Feature – The US has an HIV epidemic – and its victims are gay black men. The Centers for Disease Control predicts one in every…
Feature – The Moral Beauty of Michael Curry’s Royal Wedding Sermon. His sermon began citing the Song of Solomon: “Love is as strong as death…
Feature – The Ancient Myth of ‘Good Fences.’ What do “fences” truly represent? If one looks at history, the answer seems obvious: What fences have…
Feature – Liberal hope is dangerous: Don’t count on Mueller or the blue wave to save America from Trump. Believe that American democracy still works…
Feature – William Barber Takes on Poverty and Race in the Age of Trump. The Reverend Dr. William Barber, a pastor of Greenleaf Christian Church,…