Chicago Tribune

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It has been brought to my attention that some white people are offended by the term "black card." They got really upset when I wrote a column recently suggesting that African-Americans should consider giving Omarosa Manigault Newman's black card back

Los Angeles Times

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FRESNO, Calif. - It took two 15-year-old cheerleaders, two viral videos, a racial slur and a school board member on a tear to force this Central Valley city to confront its painful past - one of discrimination that some say has shaped the place for m

Literary Hub

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At the turn of the 19th century, in the Americas, in Asia, and across Europe, the readily summoned image of the Black in the United States was that of an enslaved person, a brown-skinned man or a woman of African descent who worked as a sharecropping

The Guardian

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Whether it’s police violence, poor medical care, or simply trying to breathe, we suffer from an underlying condition: racism

The Atlantic

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Five decades after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., equality, for many, remains a distant dream.

Poets & Writers

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THE DEBUT story collection by Danielle Evans, Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self, was published in 2010, when the author was just twenty-six years old. Rightly heralded as a significant new voice in American short fiction, Evans was selected a y

Tribune Content Agency Opinions

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I have a question for white people. I will preface it with an excerpt from a recent email sent by a reader named James. He wrote: "It is the blacks who are by far the most racist of all people as they can't seem to simply forget their damn color and

The Paris Review

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W. E. B. Du Bois The dispute lasted for more than a year between itinerant black farmer Sam Hose and his wealthy white employer, Alfred Cranford. Hose requesting his wages. Cranford refusing to pay up. The dispute grew like the crops on Cranford’s fa

The Atlantic

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America recently passed the 400th anniversary of the arrival of the first captive Africans brought to what would become the United States. September 2019 was chosen as an imperfect but significant date to mark the start of American slavery and the sy

New American Paintings

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One ever feels his two-ness—an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder. –W. E. B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk Many

NPR

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We talked to Angela Saini, author of the new book Superior: The Return of Race Science, about how race isn't real (but you know ... still is) and how race science crept its way into the 21st century.

The Atlantic

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When W. E. B. Du Bois devised the idea of “double-consciousness” in his 1897 Atlantic article “Strivings of the Negro People,” which he later included in his book The Souls of Black Folk, he set a new language for meditating on black progress in the

ARCHAEOLOGY

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Off of Route 41 in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, a trail leads visitors around the childhood home of W.E.B. Du Bois, the African American author, scholar, activist, and cofounder of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. B

NPR

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Gov. Northam has made a call for racial dialogue after his yearbook photo controversy, but these conversations are hard to have productively.

Adirondack Life

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WHEN PEOPLE ASK ME ABOUT MY LIFE AS A BLACK person growing up in the Adirondacks among a predominately white population during the 1950s and ’60s, several persistent images explode in my mind. In one, I was a high-school student in the small iron-ore

The Christian Science Monitor

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Whether on Zoom calls or in community picnics, more Americans are reflecting on the truth about race relations. Is this finally a moment for a national introspection?

Poets & Writers

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In 1994 Joanne Gabbin, an English professor at James Madison University (JMU), organized a conference to celebrate Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Gwendolyn Brooks and African American poetics. Hundreds of people came out to hear Brooks and more than thi

You South Africa

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The ex NBA star pledged $100 million (R1,7bn) over the next 10 years. The star has pledged to support anti-racism organisations. The singer has offered to bail out arrested protesters. The rapper contributed $100 000 (R1,7m) to arrested protest

Manhattan Institute

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Attacking critical race theory as “ideological poison,” President Trump reminds us that our government is based on individual rights, equality under the law, and merit.

The Paris Review

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Chadwick Boseman and Lupita Nyong’o in Black Panther. “Suppose the only Negro who survived some centuries hence was the Negro painted by white Americans in the novels and essays they have written. What would people in a hundred years say of black Ame

Manhattan Institute

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The intrusion of critical race theory into medicine and public health threatens the well-being of all Americans—especially nonwhites.

Columbia Journalism Review

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It is winter in New Orleans, and my mother is dying. As I sit at her bedside, on the verge of being overcome with grief, I try to distract myself with work. I’ve been asked to write about the great Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer John H. White: h

Post South Africa

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THE lead story “Racist and Dangerous” (the POST, December 9-13) is an appropriate description of the Park by the Pozie campaign. Not only can it cause irreparable damage and harm to race relations, it is also dangerous. In 1994, South Africa emerged

Manhattan Institute

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Perhaps nothing so animates the progressive Left today as the notion of an increasingly race-conscious society, segregated by ethnic identity and dismissive of the traditional ideal of assimilation. If this seems ironic, it should—in the not-so-dista

NPR

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The director of the Office of Management and Budget told agency heads on Friday that such trainings were "divisive" and "anti-American."

Digital Photographer

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Living in London, Ron is a professional photographer, social media influencer and consultant, as well as a Sony Imaging ambassador. rontimehin.com Like most freelance photographers, we navigate an incredibly precarious road, which has its many chall

The Christian Science Monitor

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The US midterm election was filled with racial issues, another example to the world of how to confront a difficult topic. At least one country, Tunisia, has decided progress on race is possible.

The Christian Science Monitor

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For Black Americans, the rendering of their cultural identity matters. Columnist Ken Makin explores the historical fight for a capital “B.”

The Christian Science Monitor

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The West’s new debate over past wrongs allows a humble receptivity to the universality of good.

Manhattan Institute

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President Trump recently issued an executive order prohibiting federal agencies from using “critical race theory” as part of their personnel-training programs. The president acted in response to my reporting exposing the use of “diversity, equity, an