Brittney Cooper

Brittney Cooper is a professor at Rutgers University and the author of Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower.

A congressional staffer departs holding a visual aid following a news conference regarding the redesigned $20 bill meant to honor Harriet Tubman, on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., on June 18, 2019.

Putting Harriet Tubman on the $20 Bill Is Not a Sign of Progress. It's a Sign of Disrespect

The Biden Administration announced its plan to return to an Obama-era initi...

The Biden Administration announced its plan to return to an Obama-era initiative to put Harriet Tubman’s face on the U.S. $20 bill. Her image would replace Andrew Jackson, the notoriously racist President, known both for...

President-elect Joe Biden along with democratic candidates for the Senate Jon Ossoff and Rev. Raphael Warnock greet supporters during a campaign rally the day before their runoff election in Atlanta, on Jan. 04, 2021.

Georgia Is Just the Beginning. It's Time to Tell a New Story About the South

Since 1968, American political fortunes have turned on the status of Southe...

Since 1968, American political fortunes have turned on the status of Southern politics. When Lyndon B. Johnson passed the Voting Rights Act of 1965, racially aggrieved white Southern Democrats defected to the Republican Party, a...

Vice President-elect Kamala Harris speaks on stage before President-elect Joe Biden's address to the nation in Wilmington, Delaware on Nov. 7, 2020.

Kamala Harris and Black Women Voters Helped Joe Biden Get Elected. Here's How America Can Do Right by Them

When Americans elected Kamala Harris Vice-President, they symbolically comp...

When Americans elected Kamala Harris Vice-President, they symbolically completed a 150-year project of recognizing the right of Black people to exercise the full franchise as citizens. In 1870, the 15th Amendment gave African American men...

President Donald Trump’s last rally before the 2020 election in Grand Rapids, Mich., on Nov. 3, 2020.

If Donald Trump Wins a Second Term, Blame White People

Since the 2000 election, the first in which I was old enough to vote, the R...

Since the 2000 election, the first in which I was old enough to vote, the Republican Party and the courts have worked together to disenfranchise voters on the left, who are disproportionately people of color....

A mother and daughter protest in Summerville, S.C. on June 1, 2020.

Why Are Black Women and Girls Still an Afterthought in Our Outrage Over Police Violence?

Breonna Taylor was an essential worker. An EMT with aspirations to be a nur...

Breonna Taylor was an essential worker. An EMT with aspirations to be a nurse, she was one of the people whose daily labor of keeping people safe we have come to value anew in the...

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) speak after the Democratic presidential primary debate at Drake University on January 14, 2020 in Des Moines, Iowa. Six candidates out of the field qualified for the first Democratic presidential primary debate of 2020, hosted by CNN and the Des Moines Register.

It Matters That Elizabeth Warren Is a Woman. Why Do So Many on the Left Insist That It Doesn't?

The lesson the Barack Obama era should have taught us is the foundational f...

The lesson the Barack Obama era should have taught us is the foundational faultiness of specious claims to a post-racial America. For those who refused to see how entrenched racism remained even after Obama’s ascent,...

Stop Asking Whether Women 'Love Themselves Enough' to Leave Their Abusers

What Brittney Cooper learned about self-esteem from her mother's stories of...

What Brittney Cooper learned about self-esteem from her mother's stories of abuse