Isabella Tichenor killed herself last week. She was 10 years old. Her mother, Brittany Tichenor-Cox, said last week that her daughter — she called her “Izzy” — had been the target of ongoing racist abuse from classmates at her school in North Salt Lake, Utah. Izzy, who was African ...
She slammed down her white privilege like you’d slam down an American Express black card. Which is to say, with supreme confidence. Two months after posting video of herself in the mob of right-wing thugs who stormed the U.S. Capitol, Jenna Ryan went on Twitter to taunt her detractors. ...
Monday’s breaking news was West Virginia University President E. Gorden Gee’s name among the list of founders and advisors for the new “University” of Austin — an organization that, despite its moniker, has no accreditation, no campus and no classes, but it will offer a non-credit ...
by LZ Granderson Can you think of an opposing view on the Holocaust that isn’t antisemitic? Evidently, a school administrator in Texas seems to think so. Gina Peddy, the executive director of curriculum and instruction for the Carroll Independent School District in Southlake, ...
You might think it was a crime, but last week, a grand jury did not. The reference is to the case of one Jared Lafer. He is a white man in his 20s who, in September of last year, was driving in Johnson City, Tenn., when he came upon a small group of Black Lives Matter protesters in a ...
by Solomon Jones When jurors in New York found R. Kelly guilty of federal racketeering and sex trafficking charges, the verdict not only laid bare Kelly’s own perversion, it also revealed much about our society. For decades, the 54-year-old Kelly had faced allegations that ...