Why Trump’s comments on Kamala Harris’ Black identity miss the mark
The “one-drop rule” and America’s long history of racial classification.
Trump’s attacks on Fani Willis failed to discredit her
My research explores why targeting Black officials, both personally and professionally, helps mobilize Black voters.
White racism brought down a Black community. Will there be reparations?
Part 2: Groundless panic about white women’s safety razed a town.
How the U.S. census ignores Afro-Latinos
Afro-Latinos are the most vulnerable to discrimination, but their official invisibility makes them harder to serve
On Labor Day, we remember the Black women who helped win labor rights
100 years ago, Nannie Helen Burroughs launched the National Association of Wage Earners — part of her effort to integrate comprehensive labor reform into the movement for voting rights.
Here’s what Martin Luther King Jr. would say to Sen. Tom Cotton about American history
King called for a “multiracial patriotism.” Here’s what it looks like.
The white press has a history of endangering Black lives going back a century
In 1919, the white national press spread a false story that covered up a white massacre of African Americans in Arkansas
Why are the #OscarsSoWhite? Google searches give us a clue.
Here’s how the Hollywood-audience-Hollywood feedback loop works.
The Republican Party is white and Southern. How did that happen?
Its leaders made a decision to push out blacks. That helped it to dominate Southern politics.
Confederate flags and Nazi swastikas together? That’s new. Here’s what it means.
At the white supremacist rally in Charlottesville over the weekend,
Most Americans opposed integrating the military in 1948. Most Americans support transgender military service today.
Last week, President Trump announced via Twitter that, after “consultation
Here’s how to make government care about Black lives
2015 has been the year of protest. Chanting “Black Lives
The ambiguity of racial categories
Racial classification has been in the news lately with the
What a 100-year-old racist movie tells us about civil rights then and now
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Who disagrees with 'Selma’s' portrayal of LBJ? Blacks in the civil rights era.
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Who disagrees with ‘Selma’s’ portrayal of LBJ? Blacks in the civil rights era.
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Changing Public Views of Martin Luther King
This is a year old, but still interesting: I'll add