50 years after Birmingham bombing, where are we?
By Fred McKissack Jr., September 15, 2013 Fifty years ago, a depraved and savage crime rocked the civil rights movement: the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama.read more
View ArticleNew Miss America Target of Racist Backlash
By Amitabh Pal, September 16, 2013 Why Nina Davuluri is being subjected to bigotry.read more
View ArticleRace A Big Factor in Government Shutdown
By Orson Aguilar and Carla Saporta, October 9, 2013 There is a seldom-discussed racial element in the debate over the shutdown...read more
View ArticleTravesty: Justice Delayed for 'Central Park Five'
By Brad Friedman, Oct. 22, 2013 "Travesty" isn't really strong enough to properly describe what happened in this case.read more
View ArticleNFL Bullying Scandal Upends Our Stereotypes of Race
By Fred McKissack, Nov. 19, 2013 Consider the lives of the two men involved in this ordeal.read more
View ArticleAmazing: Fox News Panel Defends Santa's Whiteness
By Stephen C. Webster, Dec. 12, 2013 The Republican-leaning network's "War on Christmas" just took a racist turn.read more
View ArticleS.Africa's right still fears post-Mandela apocalypse
By AFP, December 26, 2013 These right-wing prophesies simply refuse to be quashed by recent events.read more
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America still not a post-racial society
By Fred McKissack Jr., October 3, 2012 Four years ago, with the election of Barack Obama, it was reasonable, even fashionable, to believe America had entered a post-racial era. The new president won...
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Romney Appeals to White Tribalism in Ohio
By Arun Gupta and Michelle Fawcett, October 15, 2012 SIDNEY, OHIO—At the Shelby county fairgrounds in Sidney, Ohio, on Oct. 10, a jumbotron showed a bus approaching. Image became reality as Mitt...
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Rinku Sen
My guest today is Rinku Sen, the publisher of colorlines.com, which champions racial justice. Follow Matthew Rothschild @mattrothschild on Twitter
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Romney campaign is playing on stereotypes
By Kevin Alexander Gray, October 30, 2012 The Mitt Romney campaign has run a thinly veiled racist campaign.By making an issue of welfare and work requirements, Romney has fed the stereotype that many...
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Romney and the Race Card
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White voters rejected the politics of exclusion
By Eric K. Ward, November 15, 2012 While many TV pundits were quick to point out that the president did not win the majority of the white vote, they failed to point out that no Democratic candidate...
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New secessionist movement is a disturbing throwback
By Starita Smith, November 21, 2012 The new secessionist movement is bad for America. It represents a refusal to recognize the re-election of President Obama. And just below the surface of it lie some...
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James Baldwin’s America and the Paradox of Race
By Simon Balto, December 3, 2012 Fifty years ago this month, African American essayist and novelist James Baldwin published “A Letter to My Nephew” in the pages of The Progressive magazine. The...
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A New Wave of Racist Right-Wing Violence?
By Chip Berlet, April 3, 2013 With the recent killings of government prosecutors and others in Colorado and Texas there is speculation that a member of a White Supremacist prison gang is responsible,...
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Tiger Woods comment unearths hurtful stereotype
By Fred McKissack Jr., June 3, 2013 Note to golfer Sergio Garcia: Black people do not have a natural craving for fried chicken.Or collard greens.Or malt liquor.Some of us — like me — can’t dance or...
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The Failed--and Racist--War on Pot
June 5, 2013 Follow Matthew Rothschild @mattrothschild on Twitter
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See How Racist the War on Marijuana Really Is
By Matthew Rothschild, June 6, 2013 The ACLU put out a devastating report this week that shows how racially biased our judicial system, and how crazy the war on drugs is.The ACLU studied marijuana...
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Al Sharpton Targeted by Zombie Gun Product?
By Frank Smyth, June 28, 2013 “Poor Al he was a Sharp guy,” begins the description of a gun target firm’s newest “Life-Sized Tactical Mannequin Target.” With a dark skin tone and features that seem to...
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