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The racist shooting massacre in Buffalo, N.Y., by a teenagewhite supremacist that left 10 Black people dead and injured three others is part of a deeper... → Read More
The Georgia congressman’s life was more complex than tributes might make out. His embrace of Black Lives Matter shows he knew racist oppression never came close to ending → Read More
With the Fourth of July just days away, it’s encouraging that many Americans are realizing that ending systemic racism is the only way we as a nation can... → Read More
Fifty years ago, anti-war protesters swarmed the streets of Chicago during the Democratic National Convention to reject the Vietnam War, state violence, and injustice. In the process they turned the city into a veritable battleground over the fate of American democracy. | By Peniel Joseph → Read More
Racial violence that gripped Charlottesville, Va., causing the governor to declare a state of emergency represents a case of what Malcolm X famously characterized as “chickens coming home to roost.” President Donald Trump’s bluntly facile appeal to deep-seated racial divisions would be comical if it weren’t so dangerously effective. → Read More
The summers of 2014 and 2015 were marked by police shootings, hashtags and unrest. The summer of 2016 has been no different. → Read More
Taking a muted tone, the president tried to thread the needle between the anguished needs of African Americans and defending the police as imperfect public servants. → Read More
Fifty years ago this Thursday, the call for “black power” by Stokely Carmichael in Greenwood, Miss., transformed the black freedom struggle. → Read More
In life, and now in death, Muhammad Ali cut a swashbuckling, larger-than-life figure. Three days of celebration for Ali will culminate in a public funeral service led by former President Bill Clinton Friday in Louisville, Ky. → Read More
The GOP front-runner’s religious intolerance is akin to the scapegoating of Jews in Nazi Germany. → Read More
From Yale to Missouri, college campuses are becoming ground zero in challenging white supremacy and institutional racism. → Read More
The third annual Hutchins Centers Honors convened Wednesday evening at Harvard University’s Sanders Theatre. The event honors trailblazers in politics, culture, business and finance. This year's Du Bois Medal awardees—including Muhammad Ali (in absentia), former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, the Children’s Defense Fund’s Marian Wright Edelman, Ariel Investments’ Mellody... → Read More
In her Sunday speech, which tackled economic injustice and violence against African Americans, she threw down a gauntlet for the current presidential contenders. → Read More
Jeb Bush’s statement perpetuates a mythology of ignorance that casts black folks as a lazy mass of people who are dependent on government largesse for their existence. → Read More
The national commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act takes place against the backdrop of a devastating full-scale assault on the civil rights movement’s signature legislation. For African Americans, the passage of the Voting Rights Act on Aug. 6, 1965, represented the culmination of a centuries-long struggle... → Read More
In a rousing speech before the NAACP’s annual convention, President Barack Obama said that black and brown children should not be tagged criminals because of their race. → Read More
The dark-skinned immigrants and their descendants being pushed out of the Dominican Republic are canaries in the coal mine of a global anti-immigrant catastrophe. → Read More
Channeling the race man many have long clamored for this president to be, Obama lectured on the injustices and racism that have plagued the African-American community. → Read More
The brutal act of racial terror that took the lives of nine black parishioners at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C., purposely targeted the most important institution that has ever existed in the black community: the black church. So it should come as no surprise that in the... → Read More
A federal database is vital for understanding the depth of police misconduct and for finding a cure to a national crisis that new technology has made visible to the world. → Read More