Racism

It seems like one of these stories comes across our collective news feeds every few months. A restaurant or a nightclub posts a dress code somewhere on the premises. Someone spots the dress code and takes a picture of it, then posts it…

It was Joe Biden at his most pandering. The former vice president and current front-runner for the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination paid a visit Sunday to the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, to commemorate…

Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York) speaks as Representatives Ayanna Pressley (D-Massachusetts), Ilhan Omar (D-Minnesota), and Rashida Tlaib (D-Michigan) listen during a press conference at the U.S. Capitol on July 15th,…

In the mid-nineties, David Eng was a professor of English and comparative literature at Columbia, and Shinhee Han, a psychotherapist, worked for the school’s counselling and psychological services. After a seemingly popular…

On November 4, 2008, Barack Obama beat John McCain by nine and a half million votes and became the country’s first African-American President. In 2016, Donald Trump, an unapologetic racist, lost the popular ballot by three million votes…

The Confederate Memorial stands outside the governor's office at the Alabama State Capitol on May 15th, 2019, in Montgomery, Alabama, the day that Alabama Governor Kay Ivey signed a near-total ban on abortion into state law.(Photo: Julie…

"In high-discrimination countries, white natives receive nearly twice the callbacks of nonwhites; in low-discrimination countries, white natives receive about 25 percent more," researchers write.(Photo: Austin Distel/Unsplash)Applying…

"Social liberals who think about white privilege may become more likely to blame poor white people for their poverty," the researchers write.(Photo: Laura Fuhrman/Unsplash)In recent years, the rhetoric of white privilege—a recognition…

Tony Horwitz’s great-grandfather Isaac Moses Perski came to America from tsarist Russia in 1882, a penniless teen-ager, and one of the first things he bought in his new country was a book, an illustrated history of the Civil War. In…

A crowd of students in Birmingham, Alabama, flying the Confederate flag in opposition to the start of the Birmingham Campaign in May of 1963.(Photo: Frank Rockstroh/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)Racial bias is often discussed in…