Help keep Salon independent

Brittney Cooper

Brittney Cooper is a contributing writer at Salon. Follow her on Twitter at @professorcrunk.

Prince (AP/John Shearer)

America’s “Prince” problem: How Black people — and art — became “devalued”

Brittney Cooper
A still from a video of a school police officer in Columbia, South Carolina, Oct. 2015

America’s real racial double standard: How the law — and white people — turn “race-neutral” into “pro-white”

Brittney Cooper
Tamir Rice

White police are killing black kids: The cops get off, because the system protects the lives it values

Brittney Cooper
Sandra Bland

This is America’s religion of violence: The impunity of police violence & the destruction of Sandra Bland

Brittney Cooper
Serena Williams (Reuters/Carlo Allegri)

The truth about Serena & American Pharaoh: Here’s the real reason why the comparison is so insulting

Brittney Cooper
(AP)

The all-American terror of Donald Trump: Inside the nightmare ideology that’s made him a hero to white fundamentalists

Brittney Cooper
Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, Tamir Rice

This is the real “Ferguson effect”: Black death, white “safety” & the growing hopelessness among young people of color

Brittney Cooper
(AP/Eric Schultz)

Donald Trump’s racist revival: How the Republican Party has given new life to unabashed bigotry

Brittney Cooper
(AP/Jeff Roberson)

Stop mocking “safe spaces”: What the Mizzou & Yale backlash is really about

Brittney Cooper
Screen capture (Credit: Shaun King)

She was guilty of being a black girl: The mundane terror of police violence in American schools

Brittney Cooper
(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-193009p1.html'>Mariusz Niedzwiedzki</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

The gun crisis we aren’t talking about: Black women are under attack — and America doesn’t care

Brittney Cooper
(AP/Evan Vucci)

The horrifying lesson of Tamir Rice: White America will use “objectivity” to justify the murder of black children

Brittney Cooper

The big father figure lie: Race, the Kardashians and the latest war on Black moms

Brittney Cooper
(AP/Carolyn Kaster)

Barack Obama just gave the most important racial justice speech of his presidency. Here’s why

Brittney Cooper
(HBO)

Matt Damon’s staggering meritocracy lie: What his “Project Greenlight” blow-up with Effie Brown really shows

Brittney Cooper
(AP/Timothy D. Easley)

The vengeful god of Kim Davis: The powerful forces we ignore when we fixate on one Kentucky clerk

Brittney Cooper

Black America’s “gaslight” nightmare: The psychological warfare being waged against Black Lives Matter

Brittney Cooper
(Lisa Renee Johnson)

Guilty of being black in a white world: The ludicrous reason these women were thrown off of a train last weekend

Brittney Cooper
(AP/Reuters/Brian Snyder//Stephen B. Morton/ Jonathan Ernst/Photo montage by Salon)

White America needs to wake up: Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders & the unacknowledged crimes of American justice

Brittney Cooper
(Reuters/Lucas Jackson /)

Ferguson’s dark, twisted lesson: What police crackdowns & “Oath Keepers” reveal on the anniversary of a tragedy

Brittney Cooper
(AP)

The hideous truth about Donald Trump: Why the “Trump Surge” is here to stay — even if his campaign isn’t

Brittney Cooper
A protestor in New York City, Dec. 4, 2014, against a grand jury's decision not to indict the police officer involved in the death of Eric Garner. (AP/John Minchillo)

A chilling reminder that Black lives matter less to police: “I won’t soon forget the sound of people screaming from pepper spray”

Brittney Cooper
(Reuters)

I could have been Sandra Bland: Black America’s terrifying truth

Brittney Cooper
Sandra Bland

“If I die in police custody”: Why Sandra Bland’s death is just the latest evidence that Black America is under attack

Brittney Cooper
« Previous
Page: 1
Next »