Ta-Nehisi Coates is correct. The attacks on Lena Dunham as the ultimate purveyor of white privilege in the arts are utterly bizarre. This isn't to say Dunham doesn't benefit from white privilege or shouldn't think of casting non-whites in her show, but she hardly benefits...
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I can't recommend this Amanda Marcotte piece enough. Abortion has no negative net effect on the Democratic Party's struggles with the white working-class over the past 40 years. Those problems.
On September 22, 1946, the Food, Tobacco, Agricultural & Allied Workers of America (FTA) reached a contract agreement with the Piedmont Tobacco Company, marking an early victory in the CIO's.
Civil War reenactors are, by and large, a depressing lot: Some re-enactors have formed camp bands to play music that soldiers enjoyed hearing around battlefield campfires. The most popular tunes included songs from the minstrel stage. Groups such as the 2nd South Carolina String Band...
On September 2, 1885, white miners in Rock Springs, Wyoming decided to exterminate the town's entire Chinese community. Whites killed at least 28 Chinese miners in the Rock Springs Massacre,.
Ta-Nehisi Coates's essay, "Fear of a Black President," is probably the best essay on this country I've read in 2012. It's hard to even know what to excerpt here. Of.
This is the kind of politician that really makes one respect southern state legislatures: State Sen. Jim Summerville, of Dickson, was removed as chairman of the Senate’s higher education subcommittee after sending an email stating he didn’t “give a rat’s ass what the black caucus...
Republicans are really on top of their game today: Why do Ohio Republicans suddenly feel so strongly about limiting early voting hours in Democratic counties? Franklin County (Columbus) GOP Chair.
Seth Stephens-Davidowitz's piece from a couple of days ago explaining his research connecting racially charged Google searches with voting patterns for Barack Obama has made the rounds. And while I'm.
On June 6, 1943, nearly 30 leaders of the Packard Hate Strike in a United Auto Workers-organized plant in Detroit were suspended from their jobs. The culmination of a series of white supremacist wildcat strikes in the first half of 1943, the Packard Hate Strike...
The fact that a young sportswriter named Brent Musberger called Tommie Smith and John Carlos "a pair of black skinned stormtroopers" after they raised the black power fist at the.
Mr. Rich Lowry: Needless to say, no one at National Review shares Derb’s appalling view of what parents supposedly should tell their kids about blacks in this instantly notorious piece.