As we celebrate Dr. Martin Luther King, memories of his last birthday flood my mind. He rose early and came to work. He was convening leaders from across regions and…
By Stephen Marche You feel your whiteness properly at the American border. Most of the time being white is an absence of problems. The police don’t bother you so you…
By Phillip Smith / Alternet An as yet unnamed man killed by police in Rawlins, Wyoming, on December 30, after they were called to a convenience store about a person believed to be selling…
By Brittney Cooper In 2011, high school senior Taylor Bell, a local rapper in Itawamba County, Mississippi, made a song in support of several female classmates who claimed they had been…
By Steven Rosenfeld When Barack Obama ran for president in 2008 and 2012, he didn’t just run on hope and change. He made hundreds of promises, everything from changing the way…
The year 2015 ended with a dispute involving former NYPD Commissioner, Raymond Kelly, and the present NYPD Commissioner, William Bratton. Kelly raised questions about the authenticity of crime statistics under…
By William I. Robinson (Image: Rising tide via Shutterstock)We are nearing 2016, the year when the richest 1 percent of humanity will own more than the rest of the world, according to projections…
By Adam Johnson Racism in media can be a difficult thing to pin down, but like pornography, you know it when you see it. It’s that toxic combination of bias fulfillment,…
By Terrance Heath Michael Brown. Eric Garner. Laquan McDonald. Sandra Bland. Walter Scott. Rekia Boyd. Tamir Rice. Most Americans have at least heard their names, and the stories of how…
By Jeremy Daw For the superstitious, Friday the 13th is a day fraught with bad luck. For Sarah Furay, that day came a week early and was Friday, November 6th….
By Peter Beinart Over roughly the past 18 months, the following events have transfixed the nation. In July 2014, Eric Garner, an African American man reportedly selling loose cigarettes illegally,…
By Justin Gardner In 1991, a neo-Nazi white supremacist gang was terrorizing the streets of Lynwood in Los Angeles County. The reason these violent thugs could run amok was because they…