Category: Race and Ethnicity in America
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With the Super Bowl coming up this weekend, we share some books that examine the history of African-Americans in sports.
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The prayers of Martin Luther King, Jr. prayers acknowledge a meaning to existence that transcends the self and its immediate circumstances.
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Prayer, and his relationship with a higher power, was central to the life of Martin Luther King, Jr.
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In Reimagining Equality, Anita Hill looks at the forces behind the financial meltdown.
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Tom DeWolf casts a sympathetic but critical eye on Katherine Stockett’s book and the film adapted from it.
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Lynching victims were not metaphors. They were real people who suffered unimaginably.
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David Chura is happy to see people speaking up for kids in prison, but the fact is: those kids are still in prison.
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From an award-winning black journalist, a tough-minded look at the treatment of ethnic minorities both in newsrooms and in the reporting that comes out of them, within the changing media landscape. From the Rodney King riots to the racial inequities of the new digital media, Amy Alexander has chronicled the biggest race and class stories…
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As we celebrate National Coming Out Day, dozens of LGBT groups are “coming out” against a federal program that places thousands of LGBTQ people and communities at risk of violence and violations of our human rights.
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The Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth, a courageous leader of the civil rights movement, died today at the age of 89. You can read his obituary at the New York Times or at the Washington Post. In Rev. Shuttlesworth’s memory, we share the words of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.: There was one threat to the reign of white supremacy in…
