by Colin P. Clarke and Jacob Ware Last month, a terrorist inspired by white supremacy opened fire at a Dollar General store in Jacksonville, Fla., killing three […]
Tag: racism
The price of being Black in a small town
by Brian Williams On a recent Friday night my wife and I watched in stunned confusion as a man in a pickup truck tried to intimidate our […]
The message in Aldean’s ‘Try That in a Small Town’ is clear
by Francis Wilkinson Country singer Jason Aldean’s “Try That in a Small Town” is far from the worst agitprop ever to hit the American scene. But the […]
Soft vs. hard bigotry
When George W. Bush was running for president in 2000, he spoke to the NAACP’s 91st annual convention, where he coined the phrase “the soft bigotry of […]
MLK’s ‘Letter From Birmingham Jail’ resonates 60 years later
by Leonard Greene Sixty years ago, a Baptist minister sat in a southern jail cell and penned the most important written statement of the civil rights movement. […]
Why do so many young white men in America find fascism ‘cool’?
by Omer Aziz Last fall, just blocks from my apartment in Cambridge, Mass., a gang of neo-Nazis gathered in Harvard Square on a Sunday afternoon. Videos showed […]
My pregnancy caused crushing pain. Doctors didn’t think that was a problem
by Tiphanie Yanique When I was pregnant with my second child, the pain in my pelvis was extraordinary. “It’s normal,” my white obstetrician said. I told her […]
‘Dilbert’ creator isn’t a victim of cancel culture but of the free market
The saga of the comic strip “Dilbert” and the racist rants of its creator, Scott Adams, isn’t the out-of-control cancel culture that Twitter boss Elon Musk and […]
How to be a Black man
Today’s topic: “How to be a Black man.” It’s a subject on which white conservatives are often quick to offer instruction to actual Black men, their utter […]
Midterms highlight SCOTUS’ threat to Black voters
by Noah Feldman At a time when control of the House of Representatives has come down to just a few seats, it’s a good time to reexamine […]
