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January 15, 2016
Jamil Smith
Structural Racism Needs to Be Debated, Too
The Iowa Brown & Black Forum provided a good model for how to steer Sunday's Democratic debate.
January 14, 2016
Jeet Heer
Nikki Haley is ignorant of the American history that most deeply affected her family.
January 13, 2016
Jeet Heer
Charlie Hebdo continues to satirize racism with racist images.
January 13, 2016
Elizabeth Bruenig
Obama invokes Pope Francis to shame anti-Muslim rhetoric.
January 12, 2016
Elizabeth Bruenig
What Explains the Trump-Sanders Crossover Vote?
They speak to the same American anxieties—even though they offer radically different solutions.
January 8, 2016
Alison Kinney
How the Klan Got Its Hood
Members of the Ku Klux Klan did not wear their distinctive white uniform until Hollywood—and a mail-order catalog—intervened.
December 29, 2015
Elizabeth Bruenig
Cleveland.com disables comments on all stories related to Tamir Rice to stem the “cesspool of hate.”
December 23, 2015
Steven Cohen
The Washington Post exposes yet another gaping hole in police violence statistics: the frequency of repeat shooters.
December 22, 2015
Steven Cohen
Police kill black people. Whether black people do, too, is irrelevant.
December 22, 2015
Brian Beutler
You say “tomato,” I say “racism.”
December 21, 2015
Brian Beutler
It’s almost as if many people in America harbor deep antipathy to minorities.
December 20, 2015
Steven Cohen
Why can’t Democrats speak out against the Ferguson Effect?
December 17, 2015
Suzy Khimm
Robert E. Lee will no longer be presiding over traffic in New Orleans.
December 17, 2015
Jeet Heer
Stars Wars nostalgia also seems to include arguing about racism in Star Wars nostalgia.
December 17, 2015
Jamil Smith
Black Protesters Have Reinvigorated Campus Activism
Across the country, student protesters joined the fight for racial progress.
December 14, 2015
Steven Cohen
What does it take to get a police brutality conviction in Chicago?
December 11, 2015
Brian Beutler
I don’t think this is the main problem with Trumpism.
December 11, 2015
Tom Rice
How the Ku Klux Klan Used Cinema to Become a Force in America
December 10, 2015
Steven Cohen
New York is safer now that the police don’t harass people of color (as much).
December 10, 2015
Brian Beutler
This isn’t close to the best example of Antonin Scalia’s bigotry.

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