Muslim Americans on What Sharia Really Means
You’ve probably heard Fox News pundits freaking out about “Sharia law.” It’s even been “banned” in many states. But…
The Full Time Work of Freeing People From Louisiana's 'Horrible' Criminal Justice System
Since 2001, the Innocence Project New Orleans [IPNO] has freed 33 innocent people from spending their lives in prison…
Study: Corporate America's Lack of Diversity Will Tend to Perpetuate Itself Forever. Dang!
Hello, and thank you for your interest in “corporate diversity.” We share your commitment to diverse leadership in the…
Another Ohio Police Department Hires the Cop Who Killed Tamir Rice
Timothy Loehmann, the former Cleveland police officer who shot and killed 12-year-old Tamir Rice in 2014, will soon…
Race? Economics? IT'S BOTH.
“Inequality,” particularly of the economic variety, can seem abstract. It sometimes fails to move us as much as it…
Tear Them All Down
In North Carolina last night, a Confederate monument came down. That’s a start.
The Conveniently Dishonest Bret Stephens Racism Standard
If you are a racist—or, far more likely, a Very Nice Person who just tolerates and enables racism through…
Uh Oh: White People Are Greedy
Due in large part to a centuries-long system of slavery, racial terrorism, and institutionalized discrimination, the…
The Racist Fixation on the 'White Working Class'
A rule of thumb that is pretty useful: Any political figure who says that they want to help the “white working class”…
Not Your Negroni: How a Mississippi Drink Menu Shook Up a City’s Deep Race Tensions
“Never let a white man know how much you really do know about anything except hard work,” John Dabney once said to his…
Look At This Fucking Chart
Here’s a headline that goes a long ways in describing the political hell of our current moment, published today by The…
Pandora's Bizarre Guide to Understanding People of Color Is Capitalist Dystopia at Its Finest
One of the cool things about modern capitalism is how utterly patronizing and infantilizing it is. Ads are written in…
Comic: Does Black Panther Pass the 'Black Bechdel Test'?
Keith Knight is the cartoonist behind the K Chronicles, The Knight Life, and (t)hink. More of his work can be seen at …
American Students Are Being Taught a Bunch of Bullshit About Slavery
A new report released this week shows American teenagers have been left shockingly ignorant by their schools when it…
Sterling K. Brown Is the First Black Man to Win a Golden Globe for Best Actor in a Drama
It’s not that surprising that Sterling K. Brown won a Golden Globe for his performance in This Is Us, but his win does…
Well It Turns Out This Isn't The Year That the Wall Street Journal Op-Ed Page Stops Being Racist
Some people want news about mergers and acquisitions. Other people want to relive the glory years of the John Birch…
Why More Young Black People Are Trading In Church for African Spirituality
Soul Searching is our series about how the most secular generation in history is changing the face of religion.
How the Obama Administration Failed Black Homeowners
Before the 2008 economic recession hit, Prince George’s County was one of the wealthiest majority-black counties in…