JFC: Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring (D) admitted he once appeared in blackface, plunging the state Democratic Party further into chaos on Wednesday. Herring’s confession that he dressed in b
I was recently reading Max Feller-Kantor’s new book Policing Los Angeles: Race, Resistance, and the Rise of the LAPD. It’s a deeply disturbing history of the Los Angeles Police Department
Serwer has a great piece decimating the ridiculous belief that the problem with American politics is “tribalism” between the political parties. Of course, the actual problem is that one pa
In case you have any doubts that the right-wing War on Soros serves as a vector not only for anti-semitism, but for the importation of European right-wing tropes and tactics into the American system,
Earlier this week, it came out that Milwaukee Brewers pitcher Josh Hader, several years ago, had tweeted out a bunch of racist and homophobic stuff. Whether you want to believe him or not, he said he
Above: Why Whites Vote Republican I don’t disagree with the central points Thomas Edsall makes here, but I hate the way poor whites voting for Republicans is framed here. The “why don̵
On June 7, 1943, 16 black workers at Buckeye Cotton Oil Company in Memphis, a Proctor & Gamble owned operation, went on a wildcat strike in protest of continued workplace discrimination despite f
Lester Maddox became governor of Georgia after threatening black students with violence if they tried to eat at his restaurant. Well, the GOP is taking over that mantle and it’s hardly surprisin