That no one in the House Republican leadership was going to go to the Selma commemoration until people called them out on it in the Washington Post and other publications.
While I am usually in favor of keeping statues and other public monuments to horrible racists up and then interpreting them, naming major buildings or public works projects is a.
When that great study detailing the numbers of African-Americans lynched in the South came out last week, I noted that its weaknesses included that lynching was not confined to the.
100 years ago today, D.W. Griffith showed his racist epic film "Birth of a Nation" at a private White House screening for President Woodrow Wilson. Wilson called it "history written.
The Equal Justice Initiative has researched a new history of lynching, documenting nearly 4000 lynchings in the South, including attempts to find the precise locations where they took place. The.
The question with what to do with racist monuments is a difficult one. I can certainly understand the desire to change or erase them. If I am a member of.
Structural racism is obviously dead in this country: White households' median wealth ticked up to $141,900 in 2013, up 2.4 percent from three years earlier, according to a Pew Research.
Thurgood Marshall: Although the city instructs its officers that use of a chokehold does not constitute deadly force, since 1975 no less than 16 persons have died following the use.
