Opinion

It’s going to be painful for African Americans to watch Obama leave the White House only to be replaced by that man. And that’s just…

As President Obama prepares to leave the White House, now is as good a time as any to reflect on the ways in which he…

Our first black president will turn over the White House next month to a man I took to calling the Orange Hindenburg, back when I…

After President-elect Donald Trump’s recent victory, some of his supporters celebrated by flying Confederate battle flags from pickup trucks and waving them at rallies. But…

Any history of black people in America will have to look closely at the year 2014. In a cascading series of events that summer, the…

When I went to Mississippi to cover the trial, I had no idea that the story would become so relevant again more than 60 years…

I. “Love Will Make You Do Wrong” In the waning days of President Barack Obama’s administration, he and his wife, Michelle, hosted a farewell party,…

By delegitimizing the term “white,’ as in white people, or white race, we diminish  the use of white identity as an organizing principle that influences “whites” to further their societal domination. Given the…

Watch the video. Walter Scott, unarmed and slow of foot, tries to run away. Police officer Michael Slager calmly fires five rounds into Scott’s back….

So now we know: White nationalists have been working more on their wardrobes than on tightening up the rhetoric and logic they use to defend…

Think back to the 2008 or 2012 presidential campaigns. Now pretend we discovered President Barack Obama’s voters of color had been endlessly sharing obviously apocryphal…