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Elizabeth Warren’s Native American Ancestry Was Never Really the Point The senator and presidential hopeful probably didn’t convince Trump or her critics — but she did validate damaging conservative narratives about race.
elizabeth warren
10/15/2018
Elizabeth Warren Releases DNA Test Indicating Native American Ancestry The 2020 hopeful probably has a Native American ancestor — and definitely gained no professional benefit from that fact.
How Do We Talk About Race and Pop Culture Without Going Insane? A panel of critics discuss Wesley Morris’s New York Times essay and some of the biggest anxieties plaguing criticism today.
Study: 24 Million White Americans Have Alt-Right Beliefs. What’s That Mean? A new study suggests that 12 percent of white Americans pass a test for adherence to white identity politics. That’s a lot of people.
Sonoya Mizuno Doesn’t Just Want to Dance A conversation with the ballerina-turned–Crazy Rich Asians star about representation and following your gut.
Patricia Okoumou and the Dual Threat to Black Immigrants Her Statue of Liberty protest reminded the country that corrosive immigration laws have an effect on black communities, too.
Stacey Abrams and the New Democratic Coalition in the South In the past, southern black Democratic voters were expected to loyally support white centrist candidates with rare representation. That has changed.
More Than Half of Russian Facebook Ads Focused on Race Race was the Russian operation’s go-to wedge when it tried to divide Americans before and after the 2016 election.
Africatown and the 21st-Century Stain of Slavery The descendants of Cudjo Lewis, the final survivor of the last slave ship to land in America, fight for respect and environmental justice.
DI Politics Chat: What Do We Forget About MLK? Four Daily Intelligencer staffers discuss the mission and legacy of Martin Luther King Jr., and what gets left out of the public memory of him.
50 Years After His Death, We Are No Closer to Realizing MLK’s Most Radical Dream Martin Luther King Jr. dreamed of an America that would judge all of its people worthy of guaranteed housing, health care, and employment.
How We Can Get a More Equal Union Fifty years since the Kerner Commission’s landmark study of racial inequality, we face similar problems. The issue lies in how we talk about equality.
National Geographic Replaces Racist Fictions With Post-racial FantasiesNatGeo wants to start a conversation on race, but its opening statement seems more like an end than a beginning.
how to raise a boy
3/7/2018
How Mothers Talk to Their Sons About Race Four perspectives on stereotypes, diversity, police, fear, and expectations.
how to raise a boy
3/7/2018
How Mothers Talk to Their Sons About Race Five perspectives on stereotypes, diversity, police, fear, and expectations.
Democrats Are Changing Their Minds About Race New data suggests that Black Lives Matter and the Dreamers have made Democrats more progressive.
The White and Black Murder Rates Are Both Rising, But for Different Reasons A prominent criminologist believes in the “Ferguson effect” — just not the one you’ve probably heard of.
The New Essence Is a Salon-Chair Dream Come True The return of all-black ownership of the magazine is coming at exactly the right time.
Chance the Rapper Wants to Talk About Race and Netflix’s Bright “I always feel a lil cheated when I see allegorical racism in movies.”
The Creators of the Implicit Association Test Should Get Their Story Straight They keep changing their minds about whether or not their Über -popular psychological test can actually predict racist behavior.
Whiteness Doesn’t Cause Mass Shootings It’s a compelling-seeming and click-worthy argument, but it’s also a glib and pernicious one that progressives should steer clear of.
It’s All About Turnout: Virginia Gubernatorial Candidates Rev Up Their Bases In a contest with huge implications for 2018, it’s coming down the stretch to a battle of turnout operations.
New Study Finds That Only 4.8% of TV Writers Are Black A new study by a UCLA professor has resulted in some stunning proof that television still has a long, long way to go when it comes to diverse […]
Race-Baiting 2017 GOP Campaigns Could Infect the 2018 Elections The racist campaigns the GOP is running in Virginia and New Jersey could spread everywhere next year.
Democrat Doug Jones Has a Slim — But Real — Chance of Upsetting Roy Moore It will depend on convincing Alabamians that Moore will embarrass their state.
A Brief Note on the Alabama Senate Race and an Old Children’s Song Roy Moore says something outrageous every other minute. But his allusion to a beloved children’s song about racial unity wasn’t an example.
Priyanka Chopra Lost a Movie Role for Being ‘Too Ethnic’ “It’s been extremely hard to have had a career where everyone knows me and I look like everybody else and then come into a country and not have that.”
The Careful, Pragmatic Case Against Punching Nazis “Punch Nazis” may be a satisfying catchphrase, but progressives should think through what it would mean to fully embrace it.
celebrity activism
8/15/2017
Jennifer Lawrence Is Encouraging Her Fans to Out White Supremacists The actress wants her followers to help ID the marchers from Charlottesville’s “Unite the Right” rally.
Black Girls Are Perceived As Less Innocent Than White Girls — Starting at Age 5 The findings build on past studies that surveyed respondents’ perceptions of black boys.
After Ossoff Defeat, Georgia Democrats Are Looking for Some Answers Should Democrats in places like Georgia keep trying to rebuild white support? Or should they focus on minority mobilization? The debate goes on.
abc's the bachelorette
6/13/2017
America Finally Has Its First Black Bachelorette Rachel Lindsay, do you accept this fantasy of post-racial dating?
Bachelorette Rachel Lindsay: Race Wasn’t a Factor in Choosing Men “In my final decision, I just went with my heart and the person I found my forever with.”
Yes, There Is a Genetic Component to Intelligence It’s important to recognize what the science says, and, no, that doesn’t lead us inexorably to Nazi race science.
What It Feels Like When Your Identity Is Heavy An essay by a medical resident highlights just how much explaining and defending and representing members of minority groups are forced into.
Are People Who Defend Free Speech More Racist? A new study suggests that racist people are eager to embrace unprincipled free-speech defenses of racist speech.
The Lifespan Gap Between White and Black Americans Is Closing New research shows encouraging progress, but it might partly be explained by the white mortality crisis.
Fourteen Scholars Discuss the Roots of the Trump Movement and Reactionary Rage Michael Eric Dyson, Leon Wieseltier, and 12 other thinkers discuss the reactionary surge and the rise of the alt-right.
race in america
4/19/2017
Jay Z’s Six-Part Docuseries Race Heads to National Geographic Channel Race joins Jay Z’s other documentary projects Time: The Kalief Browder Story and Rest in Power: The Trayvon Martin Story.
Here’s a New Effort to Study the Psychological Effects of Youth Violence It involves recruiting members of frequently victimized groups to conduct interviews about the psychological toll of violence.
4/13/2017
Babies As Young As 6 Months Old Show Racial Bias But this isn’t necessarily bad news — researchers say knowing babies’ preferences could help expand them.
3 Insights About Inequality in American Health Care Despite being the richest and most powerful country in the world, America continues to do a terrible job taking care of its vulnerable citizens.
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