Showing results for: white supremacy (page 87)
Jeb Bush is erasing history: Why his comments about Black Americans are even worse than you thought
Chauncey DeVega
While the GOP candidate clings to age-old narratives about a moocher class, he ignores the truth about America
I exposed Steve Scalise’s white nationalist past — and yet he may soon become even more powerful
Lamar White Jr.
As House GOP reshuffles leaders, congressman with David Duke ties may become second most powerful representative
My mother, the drug war and me: Reading Ta-Nehisi Coates and forgiving my own black family in the age of mass incarceration
Shannon M. Houston
For years, I blamed the destruction of our family on her. Coates' newest Atlantic article opened my eyes—and heart
Ben Carson’s great betrayal: How he ignores history in favor of the Republican Party
Chauncey DeVega
The Republican presidential candidate propounds a pernicious view of America. Here's what's at stake
Apple just did something that has journalists scared for the future. Here’s what you need to know.
Jack Mirkinson
The tech giant rolled out a new version of its mobile operating system with a very controversial new feature
Donald Trump didn’t kill criminal justice reform — the legacy of white supremacy did
Elias Isquith
If major reform dies in the Senate, it won't be due to "the Donald." It'll be because it never really had a chance
Matt Damon’s staggering meritocracy lie: What his “Project Greenlight” blow-up with Effie Brown really shows
Brittney Cooper
In a recent episode of the HBO show, Damon took an ignorant and disappointing stand for white privilege
America is still paying for W: Afghanistan, Iraq and our looming geopolitical crisis
Alfred McCoy
Obama has diligently repaired America's standing abroad, but its days of global influence may finally be numbered
The single dumbest Kim Davis meme still making the rounds
Matthew Rozsa
Conservatives have convinced themselves the Rowan County clerk is the second coming of Rosa Parks. Yeah, not quite
The vengeful god of Kim Davis: The powerful forces we ignore when we fixate on one Kentucky clerk
Brittney Cooper
The temptation to lock onto the story of Kim Davis risks ignoring the manipulative figures behind the scenes
Black America’s “gaslight” nightmare: The psychological warfare being waged against Black Lives Matter
Brittney Cooper
Black Lives Matter has been demonized following the unrelated murder of a police officer. Here's why
Celebrity killer culture: When grandiosity, privilege and entitlement turn attention-seeking into violence
Arthur Chu
Go back to our first presidential assassins, John Wilkes Booth and Charles Guiteau, to find the roots of this rage
Breitbart’s vile, race-baiting response to TV journalists’ killing: “Race murder in Virginia”
Sophia Tesfaye
Editor John Nolte continues his execrable tradition of publishing fringe garbage
Respectability will not save us: Black Lives Matter is right to reject the “dignity and decorum” mandate handed down to us from slavery
Shannon M. Houston
A Washington Post op-ed by a Baby Boomer Civil Rights activist yearns for the old ways, but that time has passed
I’m black, but I’m uncomfortable around black people
Danielle Small
Growing up in lily-white Wisconsin, people often told me, “You’re not black.” Eventually, I started to believe it
Black America owes no forgiveness: How Christianity hinders racial justice
Chauncey DeVega
Blacks are expected to absolve White America of its crimes. The rules change when the victim happens to be white
White people were America’s real “anchor babies”: A history lesson for the Republican Party
Chauncey DeVega
Republicans have latched onto a noxious far-right meme about undocumented immigration. But here's the truth.
The plot to destroy Shaun King: How Breitbart turned a ludicrous conspiracy theory into national news
Jack Mirkinson
The right's campaign to take down a Black Lives Matter leader is transparently bogus. So why did CNN take the bait?
“People know next to nothing about Reconstruction”: The pernicious Civil War revisionism poisoning American history students
Eric Foner
"Reconstruction" author Eric Foner talks Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass and what's become of the GOP
White America needs to wake up: Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders & the unacknowledged crimes of American justice
Brittney Cooper
While Democratic candidates have made important strides, it will be for naught as long as Black lives matter less
The sociopath’s answer to Macklemore: Introducing the haughty ignorance—and heinous Michelle Obama rhymes—of chart-topping white guy Lil Dicky
Matthew Pulver
Meet Lil Dicky, the latest rich white bro with a dubious message to rap his way to the top of the charts
Donald Trump, mad king of the GOP: What his surging popularity reveals about Republican extremism
Conor Lynch
Donald Trump's demagoguery has been so successful for the same reason rightwing extremism is on the rise
The GOP’s real Donald Trump problem: They’ve created a monster that they don’t know how to control
Paul Rosenberg
Establishment Republicans are hoping against hope for a speedy Trump decline. But the crisis is bigger than Trump
What Bernie Sanders fans miss about Black Lives Matter: White supremacy is bigger than economics
Jay Driskell
The Senator has done an admirable job of reacting to BLM's criticism. But some of his fans have lost the thread
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