Feature – When Southern Newspapers Justified Lynching. Newspapers even bragged about the roles they had played in arranging particularly spectacular lynchings. But the real damage…
Feature – Interview with Bryan Stevenson – (Part 1)“Talking About History Is Way We Liberate America”: New Memorial Honors Victims of White Supremacy. The museum and…
Feature – Watching Cosby Fall (Victim or Victimizer). On Thursday, Mr. Cosby was found guilty of three counts of aggravated indecent assault against Ms. Constand. To…
Feature – A Lynching Memorial Is Opening. The Country Has Never Seen Anything Like It. The National Memorial for Peace and Justice, which opens Thursday…
Feature – How Alabama could become ‘Ground Zero’ in renewed battle over Confederate symbols. Two competing narratives of the Civil War and the Southern Reconstruction…
Feature – Was the Confederacy really defeated? Why America can’t stop fighting the Civil War. How can we reconcile the rise of Donald Trump with…
Feature – Why America’s Black Mothers and Babies Are in a Life-or-Death Crisis. Black infants in America are now more than twice as likely to…
Feature – Walter Mondale: The Civil Rights Law We Ignored. Fifty years ago on April 11, Congress enacted the Fair Housing Act, the last of…
Feature – King’s Death Gave Birth to Hip-Hop. The assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. led directly to hip-hop, an era of black American culture,…
Feature – ‘The Blood of Lynching Victims Is in This Soil.’ By preserving soil from sites where blacks died from lynchings, a museum aims to help…
Feature – We Forgot What Dr. King Believed In. Dr. King passionately believed that a commitment to God is a commitment to bettering humanity, that…
Feature – Why are white men stockpiling guns? According to a growing number of scientific studies, the kind of man who stockpiles weapons or applies…
Feature – America can prevent shootings. But it has to come to grips with the problem. It’s going to happen again. There will be another…
Feature – As America Changes, Some Anxious Whites Feel Left Behind. Demographic shifts rippling across the nation are fueling fears that their culture and standing…
Feature – Chris Hayes: What ‘Law and Order’ Means to Trump. If all that matters when it comes to “law and order” is who is…
Feature – These Twins, One Black and One White, Will Make You Rethink Race. Marcia (left) and Millie Biggs, both 11, say people are shocked…
Feature – Vote. That’s Just What They Don’t Want You to Do. This is a fragile moment for the nation. The integrity of democratic institutions…
Feature – Mass shooters: Part of a larger epidemic of white male rage. Mass shooters should be understood, it seems, as the radical edge of…
Feature – Mass shooters: Part of a larger epidemic of white male rage. Mass shooters should be understood, it seems, as the radical edge of…
Feature – The NRA, Gun Control and Black People: A Complicated History. Black people, the NRA and gun control share a complicated history, from the…
Feature – Report Updates Landmark 1968 Racism Study, Finds More Poverty And Segregation. A new study that builds on the Kerner Report’s work was released…
Feature – Fanning the Flames of America’s Racial Tensions Is As Russian As Vodka and Blini. Russia used the U.S. history of racial oppression and…
Feature – The Tragedy of Erik Killmonger. “Two billion people all over the world who look like us whose lives are much harder, and Wakanda…
Feature – Why ‘Black Panther’ Is a Defining Moment for Black America. Ryan Coogler’s film is a vivid re-imagination of something black Americans have cherished…
Feature – When the next generation looks racially different from the last, political tensions rise. The “racial generation gap.” This is a straightforward measure of the…
Feature – How Joy Reid of MSNBC Became a Heroine of the Resistance. The daughter of immigrants, she spars fiercely with supporters of President Trump,…
Feature – They considered themselves white, but DNA tests told a more complex story. As more Americans take advantage of genetic testing to pinpoint the…
Feature – White Americans, welcome to the club of being asked, ‘Where are you really from?’ In 2020, perhaps for the first time, white Americans…