Above: Theodore Roosevelt, Virulent Racist The recent debates over which Americans to honor with statues, building names, and other monuments, is welcome. History should be debated. The present is not
My god…. In a new poll released by the Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) on Tuesday, a whopping 43 percent of Americans told researchers that discrimination against whites has become as
….that a ProPublica investigation found massive racial disparities in debt collection lawsuits. That’s not only true in Jennings. The story is the same down the road in Normandy and in every o
In Race Horse Men, Katherine Mooney examines the long history of race from the 1820s to the 1910s through the prism of the racetrack. She effectively argues that this is a great place in which to exam
I doubt any readers of LGM will be that shocked that people of color are exposed to toxic environments at rates far higher than whites. But the differential, at least in California, really is awful: &
If there’s one program conservatives and even most liberals see as indicative of a government disaster, it’s public housing. There’s a kernel of truth there because a lot of public h
Birmingham, Alabama is 73 percent African-American and of course a history of some of the nation’s most notorious racial violence. The Birmingham News now has 0 black reporters.
Imani Gandy has a very useful run down of Margaret Sanger’s complicated racial, sexual, and medical politics, politics that the right are simplifying and lying about in order to attack Planned P