Fueled by the Supreme Court’s June 2023 ruling that bans affirmative action in higher education, conservative lawmakers across the country have advanced their own state bans on diversity initiatives, especially those that might make students feel shame or...
Views about the intentions of the U.S. criminal justice system have their roots in key events in the 20th century. In the convict-leasing and chain gang systems of the early 1900s, Black men were...
Republican Gov. Mike Parsons has refused to grant Marcellus Williams a pardon, despite exonerating DNA evidence. Nandinka Chatterjee June 11, 2024 Read the full article here Salon
A 2018 lawsuit alleging discriminatory traffic enforcement practices by the Buffalo Police Department is seeking the go-ahead from the federal court to proceed as a class-action lawsuit. The lawsuit against the City of Buffalo claims...
After changing the Confederate names of two schools in the wake of Black Lives Matter, the school board has had a change of heart, and Black people are mad. Emell Adolphus May 10, 2024...
A hidden path to America’s dinner tables begins here, at an unlikely source – a former Southern slave plantation that is now the country’s largest maximum-security prison. Robin McDowell and Margie Mason January 29,...
Republicans may claim otherwise, but the civil rights hero was no color-blind conservative. Sam Hoadley-Brill January 15, 2024 Read the full article here The Nation
For critics of the former Harvard president Claudine Gay, a larger goal was always in sight. Keeanga-Yamahatta Taylor January 22, 2024 Read the full article here The New Yorker
“Almost nobody says we should have the richest pay the least. And yet when we look around the country, the vast majority of states have tax systems that do just that.” Jake Johnson January...
Congress approved the construction of the Yazoo Pumps more than 80 years ago. They might finally be built—and disproportionately benefit white landowners. Nick Schwellenbach January 5, 2024 Read the full article here The New...