The ‘are you black enough?’ question is perilously close to the racist one-drop rule of yore—whether called by blacks or whites.
Race & Ethnicity
Posted inBooks, Arts and Culture
After Ferguson, ‘Dear White People’ Arrives Right On Time
Then again, any time would have been right. Systemic white privilege and the language of racism is an American tradition as old as the republic.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
SCOTUS to Texas: Go Forth and Discriminate Against Your Citizens Starting Monday
Even though a federal judge ruled Texas’s new voting law to be an unconstitutional poll tax, the high court said it must remain in effect for the coming midterm elections.
Posted inCivil Rights in America
Chart: Values of Homes Owned by African Americans Take Outsized Hit Compared to Those Owned by Whites
Between 2010 and 2013, inflation-adjusted median home values fell by 4.6 percent for white households and 18.4 percent for African American households.
Posted inCivil Rights in America
The Targeting of Young Blacks By Law Enforcement: Ben Jealous in Conversation With Jamelle Bouie
What will it take to reshape America’s police departments, and curtail the unprompted police killings that beset us still?
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
The Return of the ‘Different Kind of Republican’
Rand Paul says he can win a third of the African-American vote. Who’s the real target of his effort?
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Republicans Target Georgia Voter Registration Drive With Questionable Charges of Fraud
A recent study finds that if 60 percent of unregistered African Americans and other people of color in the Peach State registered to vote, their votes would likely be enough to sway statewide elections. So GOP leaders are pushing back.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Rand Paul’s Millennial Quest: A Little Libertarian, A Lot of Something Else
Win or lose, the neo-libertarian stands to change the DNA of the Grand Old Party.
Posted inCivil Rights in America
The Making of Ferguson: How Decades of Hostile Policy Created a Powder Keg
Long before the shooting of Michael Brown, official racial-isolation policies primed Ferguson for this summer’s events.
Posted inLaw and Justice
Staggering Loss of Black Wealth Due to Subprime Scandal Continues Unabated
Two years after we last investigated the the foreclosure crisis in the most affluent black county in America, things aren’t exactly looking up—except, maybe, for the banks.
