50 Years Later: Why We Must Remember the Civil Rights Movement
We must remember the courage of the people of Mississippi and other Jim Crow states and that the civil rights movement was an endeavor of white and black bonding. Continue reading The post 50 Years...
View ArticleSen. Warren on How America Excluded Black Families From the Middle Class
Warren spoke at the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the US Senate last night about what Martin Luther King, Jr. called "the inseparable twin of racial injustice" -- economic injustice. Continue reading...
View ArticleBill Moyers in Conversation: Eddie Glaude Jr. on ‘Democracy in Black’
In a new two-part podcast, journalist Bill Moyers talks to Princeton professor Eddie Glaude, Jr., author of Democracy in Black: How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul, called “one of the most daring...
View ArticleWhy We Fail When We Try to Talk About Race in America
Conversations about race in the United States fall short of their stated aims. We declare, usually after some horrific event, that Americans need to have a hard talk about racism. Politicians and...
View ArticleNo Passes for Stereotyping — Of Any Kind
When Mitt Romney dismissed the 47 percent of voters who, he predicted, would support Barack Obama “no matter what,” as “victims” who depend on government assistance, liberal critics called foul. The...
View Article