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    What anti-racism really means & how to talk about it

    In Critical Race Theory, ‘racism’ means ‘systemic racism’, which is said to be ‘the ordinary state of affairs’ in the United States How do you...

    More black people than white die in police encounters involving tasers: report

    People killed by police use of stun guns are disproportionately African American, a Reuters analysis of fatalities through 2018 found. The news service analyzed 1,081 cases in which people...

    If Black Americans were to seek asylum, they would easily qualify

    I have evaluated countless refugee cases. The oppression Black Americans face in the US would qualify as persecution. Refugee protection is less about vulnerability and...

    Democratic leaders’ kneeling was fine. The kente cloth was not.

    My traditional cloth is not a prop. On Monday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (Calif.), Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (N.Y.) and other members of...

    5 Reasons the Book “White Fragility” is Shallow and Destructive

    Among the books making the rounds on recent “must-read” book lists is White Fragility, by Robin DiAngelo. In her book, DiAngelo aims to teach white people...

    The Long Reach of Racism in the U.S.

    Despite great progress across two centuries, exclusion and injustice remain the reality for too many black Americans One of the many ways, good and bad,...

    America’s New Nihilism

    ‘Systemic racism’ is a systemic forgetting of 55 years of urban policy failure. This is not 1968. It’s worse. The late 1960s were the heyday of...

    The Myth of Systemic Police Racism

    Hold officers accountable who use excessive force. But there’s no evidence of widespread racial bias. George Floyd’s death in Minneapolis has revived the Obama-era narrative...

    Disproportionately black counties account for over half of coronavirus cases in the U.S. and nearly 60% of deaths, study finds

    Black people make up a disproportionate share of the population in 22 percent of U.S. counties, and those localities account for more than half...

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