Don’t Be Fooled By Trump’s Black Pastors
Black folks like the GOP candidate less than pumpkin pie on Thanksgiving. Here’s why.
How It Is
Here’s Why Simone Manuel Needed to Bring Up Race At the Olympics
It’s hard to celebrate our Olympic victories when our gold-medal triumphs get second billing and we’re being dehumanized in the media and on the streets.
Why Are Some Black Moms Beating the Sexuality Out of Their Girls?
We’ve seen the viral videos of Black parents shaming and whupping their teen daughters as a way to “protect” them. But the abuse may be putting the girls at risk for sexual harm.
“Why Did You Shoot Me?”
When a cop pulled the trigger on Charles Kinsey, a Black behavioral therapist working with his autistic patient, it revealed everything that is wrong with policing in America.
Why Is Justice Scalia Defending White Mediocrity?
42 White students less qualified than Abigail Fisher got in to the UT-Austin. Yet she and the racist Supreme Court justice blame affirmative action. Is this what "elite" education is all about?
Spike Lee Did the Wrong Thing
The filmmaker of 'Chiraq' puts the onus on Black women and their sexual power to solve Chicago's insurmountable problems. Deferred orgasms are not the answer.
Black Students Don’t Matter
The protests at Mizzou and Yale are proof that America's college campuses don't intend to achieve real diversity.
The War on Drugs Is Too Harsh For White Users
In a plea that smacks of hypocrisy, Governor Chris Christie is asking us to go easy on a certain kind of person struggling with addiction: affluent White suburbanites.
Dear Black Children: Everyone Can Beat You!
Our columnist grew up in foster care, and knows all too well what it is like to be rendered invisible and reeling in emotional pain in a high-school classroom.