In Trump, extremism found its champion – and maybe its demise
Trump has given extremists a high-profile stage, but in the process exposed them to the disinfecting sunlight.
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Charlottesville belies racism’s deep roots in the North
One year after Charlottesville’s white supremacist march, US racism is seen primarily as a Southern-grown problem. But Jim Crow laws started in the North, which has a long history of systemic racism.
How pervasive anti‑millennial sentiment has hurt the cause of student protesters
Why do critiques focus on the flaws of the protesters, rather than the flawed institutions that sparked the protests in the first place?
Many small microaggressions add up to something big
These innocuous-on-the-surface comments and actions take a psychological toll on marginalized groups. Here’s why they’re a part of campus debates on race.
Why the flag of South Vietnam flew at US Capitol siege
Onlookers who recognized the flag wondered why the mostly white mob had ‘coopted’ Vietnamese history. But Vietnamese Americans are Trump supporters, too, some driven by a potent fear of socialism.
US moves to rename Army bases honoring Confederate generals who fought to defend slavery
One of the last relics of ‘lost cause’ ideology is nearing its end as a federal panel has recommended renaming US military bases now honoring Confederate generals.
Texas license plate case examines the ‘value’ of offensive speech
In hearing the case of a group determined to put an image of the Confederacy on a Texas license plate, the Supreme Court again examines the the limits of “offensive” speech.
Terror isn’t always a weapon of the weak – it can also support the powerful
The attack at a synagogue in Pittsburgh and the sending of pipe bombs to critics of the current administration are examples of the increase in the violence on the margins of the right.
A century ago, James Weldon Johnson became the first Black person to head the NAACP
The influential civil rights group got its start following a wave of brutal white-led violence against Black people in Springfield, Illinois.
Gen. Ulysses S. Grant’s pending promotion sheds new light on his overlooked fight for equal rights after the Civil War
Known as the military leader who saved America, Ulysses S. Grant left a legacy of fighting for the rights of enslaved people during and after the Civil War.
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