Pundits up in arms about removing offensive tropes from his books forget this is part of a long tradition, from Mary Poppins to Nancy Drew.
Boas was an outlier in a field that tolerated if not justified white racial superiority over the world’s “lesser” breeds, He and his intellectual successors— largely women-did what scholars and journalists need to do: listen, ask questions, observe.
They are using the filibuster, so that 41 GOP senators, representing just 21% of the country, can block everything from a $15 minimum wage to legislation to restore the Voting Rights Act.
The fear of black power drives today’s right wing politics.
The social media harassment of Kelly Marie Tran was abominable, but it’s not fair to say that racism is baked into the epic franchise’s core
If working people fail to see real material distinctions between life under Trump and life under Biden, they’ll look for an alternative to the party in power.
The 83-year-old was honored with the Cecil B. DeMille Award at the 78th annual Golden Globes and delivered an impassioned speech about elevating all voices. Here's the full speech.
Special Focus: Violence against Asian Americans
On Feb. 26, 1963, Ben Lewis, the first Black elected official from Chicago’s West Side, won what was set to be his second full term on the City Council -- perhaps next stop Congress. Two days later, Lewis was found shot to death in his ward office.
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