We Will Be Seen
Tressie McMillan Cottom on confronting racism, sexism, and classism.
Racism
Long Island Divided
Uncovering evidence of unequal treatment by real estate agents.
The Legend of A-N-N-A: Revisiting an American Town Where Black People Weren’t Welcome After Dark
The history of a sundown town.
The Great American Press Release
A white friend admitted that she had never seen a single photo of a lynching. I was shocked, but not surprised. A lynching was a warning. She didn’t need to be warned.
The Undercover Fascist
A young British man was drawn to a white-supremacist group, until they started plotting to kill.
Why America’s Black Mothers and Babies Are in a Life-or-Death Crisis
The answer to the disparity in death rates has everything to do with the lived experience of being a black woman in America.
Fifty Shades of White
The long fight against racism in romance novels.
Roseanne Barr Just Can’t Shut Up
“I admit it,” she says, in her hotel room. “I’m a troll. I’m the queen of the fucking trolls.”
The Murder of Preston Porter Jr. and Colorado's Grim History of Lynchings
The story of a lynching in rural CO in 1900, while hundreds watched, done with the complicity of press and cops, and why it still resonates today.
The Sunburnt Country
Whiteness as disease in a skin-cancer ridden Australia.
The End of Civil Rights
On the legacy of Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
The Last House in Rosewood
An important house in Florida history is for sale, its future uncertain. Some want the historic house preserved, while the racism that fueled the Rosewood riots remains.
There's No Scientific Basis for Race
It’s a made-up label.
The Cranky Redskins Fan's Guide to Dan Snyder
An encyclopedic evisceration of the NFL owner and former Six Flags chairman.
The New Racism
How the GOP took control of state politics in Alabama, leaving black lawmakers—and their constituents—powerless.
The Adopted Black Baby, and the White One Who Replaced Her
Forty-seven years later, two daughters meet.
The Nationalist's Delusion
“The specific dissonance of Trumpism—advocacy for discriminatory, even cruel, policies combined with vehement denials that such policies are racially motivated—provides the emotional core of its appeal. It is the most recent manifestation of a contradiction as old as the United States, a society founded by slaveholders on the principle that all men are created equal.”
Fiction Pick of the Week: "Sex Trade"
An examination of race, sex, and visible secrets.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "Say, She Toy"
A black android faces horrible human racism, sexual assault and realities; NSFW.
The Heart of Whiteness
An interview with Rachel Dolezal.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "Clippers"
A near future with racial voting restrictions and questionnaires.
A Lynching in Georgia
An annual re-enactment drags America’s history of racist violence into the light.
The White Flight of Derek Black
He was white nationalism’s heir apparent. Then he went to college.
Typecast as a Terrorist
“As my acting career developed, I was no longer cast as a radical Muslim – except at the airport.”
Chicago After Laquan McDonald
The activists fighting for police reform in the wake of a video that showed a black teenager shot 16 times by a white cop.
