Tag: racism

Founded 150 years ago by two former slaves, the United Order of Tents has come through for black communities when white-run organizations have failed to.

Nicole Chung reflects on the burden of engaging with racism and educating white people, including some in her own family.

The ex-convict, who became a history scholar behind bars, prepares to start classes at NYU instead.

Sorayya Khan recalls racist threats to her young sons after the 2001 attacks, and worries about them as young men living in ‘Trumpistan.’

While serving as foreperson on a grand jury, Susana Morris confronts power and privilege in the criminal justice system.

A movement in Jackson, Mississippi is working to remake the way the city governs, feeds, and runs itself in order to serve the black community.

An incident on lawyer Britney Wilson’s ride home from work exposes her vulnerabilities as a Black disabled woman.

A black mother wrestles with having to explain the violence in Charlottesville to her six-year-old daughter.

After changing her conservative grandfather’s mind about affirmative action, Danielle Tcholakian commits to trying to get through to people whose politics are very different from her own.

“Well, you might as well come and live with me now,” her employer said. “You gonna be mine eventually.”

University of Virginia grad Joshua Adams believes that if you want to understand the recent violence there, look back at history and the school’s complicated founder.

The historians, activists, reporters, and columnists who tell the complicated and ever-changing story of their own community.

This weekend’s events will resonate long after the crowd was dispersed, long after the cable news trucks leave, long after the school year begins.

Women of color are disproportionately targeted by the war on drugs and broken windows policing.

An excerpt of “Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color,” about the violent ways police have frequently treated black women with mental illness.

Authorities in New York City are using foster care as punishment against poor, non-white families.

Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw offers a sharp rebuke to those who would declare our country “post-racial.”

Amanda Machado adds her voice to the growing chorus of women of color claiming their place in the rugged outdoors.

At Guernica, Katherina Grace Thomas turns a lens on the years Nina Simone spent in Liberia in the mid-1970s.

Oluo’s interview is a master class in confrontation, in which the hard questions are asked and the answers are pushed.

How Coretta Scott King’s “grace, diginity, and poise” in the face of horrific tragedy fuelled the Civil Rights Movement.

In hiking the Appalachian Trail solo as a queer black woman, Rahawa Haile wants “to be a role model to black women who are interested in the outdoors, including myself.”

While visiting national parks to detox from the oppressive whiteness of the MFA experience, Minda Honey is reminded the only places to retreat from whiteness in this country are the spaces women of color hold for each other.

Sarah Posner introduces some of the main players in “alt-right Christianity” in her exploration of American Evangelicals’ embrace of Trump.

“This year, once Nowruz announced itself to me, I wanted to forget it.”

A manifesto of the anti-racist movement for white people and others who are just joining.

On how the state covered up the truth of the Attica Prison riot: a grisly state-initiated mass murder in the name of justice and order. Of the 43 dead, 29 were inmates — many of them shot in the back or executed at close range as the state attempted to regain control of the prison.

Lizzie Presser reports on the Dickensian treatment of Filipino workers aboard Carnival Cruise Line ships — where the routine involves 12 and 14-hour days, seven days a week for paltry pay and zero overtime — just to be able to provide better lives for families they rarely get to see.

June Thunderstorm, writing in The Baffler with the support of the Economic Hardship Reporting Project, digs into the race and class issues that underlie efforts to quell smoking. Is “public health” really the name of the game?

On a girls’ road trip to Savannah with six of her immigrant friends, Anjali Enjeti recalls a traumatic racist incident she experienced as a teen—an interaction that framed her understanding of her otherness, in Georgia, and America.