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Anti-Racism Minister Gets to Work in Brazil
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The Death of Dilbert and False Claims of Victimhood
By Janell Ross
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Tyre Nichols' Killing Is The Result of a Diseased Culture
Tyre Nichols’ brutal death is part of a violent history in America. Hiding from our past won't change that, writes Goldie Taylor.
By Goldie Taylor
January 31, 2023
The Tyre Nichols Videos Demand Solemnity
Whether you watch the videos of Tyre Nichols' beating or not, you should contend with the fact that unchecked and unlawful policing not only allows for assaults on citizens but threatens democracy.
By Janell Ross
January 27, 2023
Ballroom Dance Is a 'Safe Space' for Asian Elders
'I hope people will not see the tragedy in California as a reason to stop. We shouldn't let evil win—we should continue our daily lives and dance'
By Cady Lang
January 26, 2023
A Talk With the Creator of the MLK Jr. Statue
"Something as radical as a monument to love in a society that celebrates hate is going to and must necessarily challenge the status quo," says artist Hank Willis Thomas.
By Janell Ross
January 21, 2023
'Saint Omer' Finds Universality in Rare Crime
Alice Diop's Oscar nominated film "Saint Omer" finds nuance in the story of Fabienne Kabou
By Armani Syed
January 13, 2023
Progressives Have Failed to Heed LBJ’s Final Warning
LBJ warned that public needed to be convinced of the link between racial equity and economic opportunity. His advice rings true today
By Mark K. Updegrove
December 12, 2022
White Women Must Do More To Confront Racism
White women's quest for perfection makes it impossible to do antiracism work, write Saira Rao and Regina Jackson.
By Saira Rao and Regina Jackson
December 3, 2022
Diversity Initiatives Are Failing the U.S. Muslim Community
Crisis diversity initiatives are faulty solutions to combat and understand the gravity of Islamophobia, writes Evelyn Alsultany.
By Evelyn Alsultany
November 28, 2022
Life Expectancy Proves How Far Black Americans Have Come
Brookings scholar Andre M. Perry explores how life expectancy and progress for Black Americans are directly linked.
By Andre M. Perry
November 23, 2022
What Emmett Till's Mother Taught Me About Grief and Justice
Sybrina Fulton reflects on the murder of her son, Trayvon Martin, and unpacks the power of 'Till' and Mamie Till-Mobley's story.
By Sybrina Fulton
November 5, 2022
Racial Innocence is the Biggest Barrier to Justice
Racial innocence is not a benign state, but rather, a barrier to justice, writes Tanya Katerí Hernández.
By Tanya Katerí Hernández
November 1, 2022
To Dismantle the Prison System, We Need Viral Justice
When combatting systemic discrimination, Ruha Benjamin says that small actions can go a long way.
By Ruha Benjamin
October 18, 2022
Emmett Till’s Story Seems to Be Everywhere. There’s a Reason Why
It’s not that suddenly everyone wants to work on projects about the 1955 lynching that galvanized the civil rights movement
By Janell Ross
October 16, 2022
Black Women's Equal Pay Day Isn't A Celebration. It's a Call to Action
On Black Women’s Equal Pay Day we commemorate systemic gender inequity faced by Black women
By Taifa Smith Butler
September 21, 2022
The Promise of America's Third Reconstruction
Since the birth of the nation, its racial politics have been shaped by an ongoing battle between reconstructionist and redemptionist America
By Peniel E. Joseph
September 15, 2022
Progress Is Not A Given. It is Won
None of us can be erased if we refuse it. The idea of love, justice, and freedom do not belong to the powerful alone.
By Danté Stewart
August 5, 2022
Critical Race Theory’s Merchants of Doubt
What is more divisive than outlawing basic descriptive facts about American history?
By Victor Ray
August 1, 2022
What Happens When Kids Learn That Racism Can't Be Overcome
When kids learn that prejudice is permanent it reinforces racial divides. There's a better approach
By Evan Apfelbaum and Kristin Pauker
July 30, 2022
Akron Mourns Jayland Walker
"This is not alright. There is nothing right about this. We should not be here and Jayland should not be in that box,” said Bishop Timothy Clarke, of the First Church of God in Columbus
By Sanya Mansoor
July 13, 2022
This Juneteenth, BLM Should Reflect on Its Global Impact
There is a great opportunity for allyship this June 19
By Chandran Nair
June 16, 2022
How to Honor Juneteenth, According to Black Activists
Already, companies are learning how not to celebrate Juneteenth
By Olivia B. Waxman
June 15, 2022
What the Artists Behind George Floyd Murals Want Us to Remember
From Bethelehem, Palestine to Minneapolis, Minnesota
By Cady Lang
May 25, 2022
Bubonic Plague and the Roots of Anti-Asian Hate
A new PBS documentary explores a bubonic plague outbreak in San Francisco in 1900—with parallels to rising anti-Asian hate during the COVID-19 pandemic.
By Olivia B. Waxman
May 24, 2022
The Small Tennessee Town at the Center of a Big Lawsuit
A Black town in Tennessee is in the middle of a legal battle against the state comptroller over its very right to exist
By Josiah Bates
May 3, 2022
A Year After the Spa Shootings, Asians Fear More Than Physical Attacks
Unfairly blamed for COVID-19, Asian Americans increasingly are subject to verbal harassment, but that's rarely considered a hate crime
By Melissa Chan
March 16, 2022
The Tormented Rise of Abolition in 1830’s America
Abolition in America stood at a crossroads in the mid-1830s. Reviled in the national press, denounced by demagogues, and attacked by mobs, abolitionists faced unprecedented hostility and violence coordinated by Southerners and their sympathizers in...
By J. D. Dickey
March 1, 2022
How America Educated Children of Nazis after World War II
Within just a few years after the end of World War II, the U.S. went from fighting the Nazi party to inviting some of its scientists and their families to live and work in America....
By Olivia B. Waxman
February 24, 2022
The Enduring Timeliness of Frederick Douglass’s Last Major Speech
Premiering on HBO and HBO Max on Feb. 23, a new documentary Frederick Douglass in Five Speeches looks at the life of the most famous abolitionist of the 19th century through five of his key...
By Olivia B. Waxman
February 22, 2022
Ahmaud Arbery Killers Found Guilty of Federal Hate Crimes
The three men who were convicted of killing Ahmaud Arbery were all found guilty of federal hate crimes trial on Feb. 22—after the jury spent less than 24 hours deliberating. The verdict comes just a...
By Josiah Bates
February 22, 2022
How Eleanor Roosevelt Worked to Stop Her Husband Approving Japanese Internment Camps During World War II
In the aftermath of the attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, rumors of sabotage and imminent further attacks found fertile ground in the minds of a nervous American public. In a press conference...
By Francine Uenuma
February 18, 2022
Black Politicians Elected in the South After the Civil War
At least 19 states passed 34 laws restricting access to voting in 2021, according to the Brennan Center for Justice. In Georgia, Gov. Brian Kemp signed a law limiting the number of drop boxes for...
By Olivia B. Waxman and Video by Arpita Aneja
February 7, 2022
Brian Flores' Lawsuit Shows the Limits of the Rooney Rule
While mountains of studies and the paucity of African Americans in most professions have long signaled the prevalence of hiring discrimination, the insidiousness of the practice typically makes it difficult to prove. It’s why the...
By Pamela Newkirk
February 7, 2022
Louisiana Gov. Pardons Homer Plessy, 125 Years After SCOTUS ‘Separate But Equal’ Ruling
On Jan. 11, 1897, Homer Plessy pleaded guilty in a New Orleans district court for sitting in a whites-only train car, eight months after the U.S. Supreme Court upheld Louisiana’s Separate Car Act and a...
By Olivia B. Waxman
January 5, 2022
Jury Finds 3 Men Guilty in Killing of Ahmaud Arbery
The nearly all-white jury delivered a sweeping conviction of Travis McMichael, Gregory McMichael and William Roddie Bryan Jr.
By Josiah Bates
November 24, 2021
The Day I Passed for White
As a light-skinned Black woman, I have purposefully passed for white only once in my life. Which is not to say I haven’t passed unintentionally many times—especially as a young adult, away from home for...
By Kelly McWilliams
November 19, 2021
The Trial Over Ahmaud Arbery's Killing Is Set to Begin. Here's What to Expect
The February 2020 killing of Ahmaud Arbery served as a flashpoint for the reckoning on racial injustice in America that dominated much of the public consciousness last year. Arbery, a 25-year-old Black man, was jogging...
By Josiah Bates
November 4, 2021
Julius Jones’ Execution Commuted: What to Know
Julius Jones’ death sentence has been commuted by Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt, just hours before he was scheduled to be executed on Nov. 18. On Nov. 11, the Oklahoma State Pardon and Parole Board recommended...
By Josiah Bates
September 22, 2021
Nicole Kidman, 'Expats,' and White Privilege
Sadly, Asians still see white privilege as the way the world works
By Chandran Nair
August 26, 2021
Heather McGhee's Quest to End America’s Zero-sum Thinking on Race
Heather McGhee was cooking dinner in her Brooklyn apartment in January as she opened a YouTube link to watch Joe Biden deliver his first speech on race as the President. As she bustled around the...
By Alana Semuels
July 23, 2021
Asian American Elders Stand Resilient in the Wake of Violence
In families that experienced firsthand the surge in attacks on Asian American elders, the strength of their loved ones is clear
July 23, 2021
The Fight Against White Supremacy Isn't Just an American One
Racism in the U.S. should not be at the center of global discussions on white supremacy
By Chandran Nair
July 20, 2021
Coalition, Not Allyship, Is the Next Step for Racial Justice
As Irish-Nigerian academic and broadcaster Emma Dabiri prepares for the U.S. release of her latest book, she reflects on the thinkers who have inspired her own work. “I feel deeply indebted to specifically Black American...
By Suyin Haynes
June 22, 2021
New Study Details Depth of U.S. Segregation
More than 80% of large metropolitan areas in the United States were more segregated in 2019 than in 1990, according to a new report.
By Alana Semuels
June 21, 2021
Juneteenth Honors Black Americans Who Created Their Freedom
If you ask Black people, Juneteenth marks the day Black Americans created their own freedom
By Janell Ross
June 16, 2021
Why Black Americans Need Black-Owned Banks
Hours after a 19-year-old Black man likely tripped and reached out in alarm for the hand of a nearby white woman in March 1921, Tulsa, Oklahoma's white-owned newspaper demanded his lynching with ruthless clarity: "Nab...
By Ashley Bell and Kevin Garnett
June 1, 2021
Watch TIME's First-Ever 'Uplifting AAPI Voices Summit'
TIME hosted its first-ever Uplifting AAPI Voices Summit featuring Sen. Mazie Hirono, Constance Wu, Lisa Ling, Prabal Gurung and more
By TIME Staff
May 27, 2021
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