Opinion
My President Wasn’t Black Enough – Goldie Taylor / Daily Beast
Minutes after the nation’s 45th president took the oath of office— mired in controversy, awash in financial conflict, and loathed by broad swaths of the…
Why Stephen K. Bannon, Trump’s Chief Strategist, Is So Dangerous for Black People – Kamau Franklin / Atl Black Star
Racial Progress Is Real. But So Is Racist Progress – Ibram X. Kendi / NYT
Barack Obama said in his final news conference that he planned to use his time off from politics “to do some writing.” I am hoping…
With All Due Disrespect ( Is Mr. Trump Legitimate?) – Paul Krugman / NYT
Trump’s attack on John Lewis is also a racist smear against black communities – Tara Culp-Ressler / ThinkProgress
In response to a series of tweets from President-elect Donald Trump on Saturday that attacked civil rights legend John Lewis for taking no action to…
Which Martin Luther King Are We Celebrating Today? Jason Sokol / NYT
The ‘Hidden Figures’ Jeff Sessions Wants to Keep in the Shadows by Bill Moyers
As the Senate hearings for Jeff Sessions’ nomination as attorney general ran into their second day, I kept thinking about the movie Hidden Figures, which…
The Rust Belt whips and snaps after eight years of Obama – Justin Torres / Wash Post
Ode to Obama (Farewell) – Charles M. Blow / NYT
The dark clouds of the coming administration rolled in this week with a fury, producing a flood of strange and worrisome news. There was the…
Trump voters were scared: Research shows increasing diversity might make Americans more xenophobic – Allison Skinner / Salon
Pity the sad legacy of Barack Obama – Cornell West / The Guardian
Eight years ago the world was on the brink of a grand celebration: the inauguration of a brilliant and charismatic black president of the United…
A Devil We Know : What will life for Americans actually look like under Trump? Robert Greene / Dissent
Donald Trump’s victory has become an occasion for soul-searching and fierce debate among liberals, leftists, and their allies. But lost in the mix of all…
I Know How It Feels to Be Someone’s ‘Token.’ I’m Sure Ben Carson Does, Too – Greg Howard / NYT
“The best people.” This refrain rang throughout Donald Trump’s presidential campaign; at times, it seemed to be his justification for being in the race at…
A sermon on the unbearable whiteness of America – Carlos Lozada / Wash Post
Which Michelle Obama Will We Get When She Leaves the White House? Jodi Kantor / NYT
On Jan. 20, Michelle Obama will hand her home over to a man who rose to power in part by spreading lies about her husband…
Racial segregation is still at the heart of Chicago’s ills… and America’s too – Natalie Y Moore / The Guardian
How Black Writers Can Help White Readers – Theodore R. Johnson / The Nation
It was the racism, stupid: White working-class economic anxiety is a zombie idea that needs to die – Chauncey Devega / Salon
On Jan. 20, Donald Trump will become president of the United States of America. Donald Trump is an authoritarian and demagogue who meets the definition…
How Donald Trump Will Make America White Again – Julianne Hing / The Nation
Denzel Washington Doesn’t Think Hollywood Has A Colorism Problem – Zeba Blay / Huff Post
The invention of the white working class: The phrase of the year is racist hogwash – Les Leopold / Alternet
Black America Steels Itself for Obama’s Departure and a Future Under Trump -Barrett Holmes Pitner / The Daily Beast
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…
America Has Compensated Other Groups, But Obama Opposes Reparations for Black People. Why? David Love / Atl Black Star
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…
The sixties produced a conviction that “democracy is in the streets.” The Trump era may echo that. – Jelani Cobb / The New Yorker
Which Way Does the Arc of Obama’s Moral Universe Bend? Joan Walsh / The Nation
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…
How Trump’s victory turns into another ‘Lost Cause’ – John Blake and Twanda Scott Sambou / CNN
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…
Black Life and Death in the Age of Obama – Kai Wright / The Nation
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…
Why Are We Still Reliving the Nightmarish Death of Emmett Till? Dan Wakefield / The Nation
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…
Are younger whites less racist? New research about racial attitudes suggests demographics alone won’t save America – Chauncey Devega / Salon
Ta-Nihisi Coates on Obama, atheism, and becoming the guy “white people read to show they know something” – Ezra Klein / Vox
