“Want to Meet America’s Worst Racists? Come to the Northwest”

“tucked away in the Pacific Northwest of the United States is a vicious group that most people have never heard of but the nation’s most virulent online racists know well…

To be sure, the Northwest…

“The real reason research blaming black poverty on black culture has fallen out of favor”

“Philip N. Cohen: It’s complicated, because Moynihan started his whole report saying we had hundreds of years of racial oppression that had brought us to the point he was…

“Taylor Swift and the Silencing of Nicki Minaj”

“You can debate whether the “Anaconda” video is brilliant or bad, but you can’t argue with Minaj that it was one of the most iconic pop-culture products of the past year, nor with the idea that a lot of people had a knee-jerk negative response to…

“The Web is not a post-racial utopia”

“When the game was first opened up, all players were given the same default avatar: a bald white man. With the most recent update, Rust’s lead developer, Garry Newman, introduced different avatars of different racial origins into the mix. However, they did so with…

“It’s Time for Black Folks to Stop Trying to Be “Good” in the Face of Our Oppression”

“It seems that for folks like Agnew, one of the great lessons of the 1960s is that we cannot make white people love us by being “good” and mannerable in our resistance to oppression…

“O’Malley and Sanders interrupted by Black Lives Matter protesters in Phoenix”

“a second protester, a Black Lives Matter activist who was introduced as Patrice, was invited on to the stage to ask a question.

“It’s not like we like shutting shit…

“Dispatch From Charleston: The Cost Of White Comfort”

“But thanks to something I experienced the previous night in Charleston, I couldn’t shake a paralyzing feeling: When black people and white people clasped hands in the arena that night, the comfort wouldn’t be evenly distributed. The…

“Black America’s State of Surveillance”

“Files obtained during a break-in at an FBI office in 1971 revealed that African Americans, J. Edger Hoover’s largest target group, didn’t have to be perceived as dissident to warrant surveillance. They just had to be black. As I write this, the same…

“Fashion Critics Aren’t Mad At This “African-Themed” Show (But They Should Be)”

“Blanks is a critic I usually enjoy reading, but his use of linguistic subterfuge here doesn’t fly. Every good conservative knows that to cast anger or debate over racism as “knee-jerk” is to…