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February 2017

February 14, 2017

Inequalities Abound: Betsy DeVos and School Closures

During confirmation hearings, DeVos didn't know the difference between proficiency testing and growth testing. This...

February 01, 2017

Does Donald Trump Know Frederick Douglass Is Dead?

Obviously, whether Trump knows that Douglass died over a century ago is not the biggest...

January 2017

January 20, 2017

Why is Kylo Ren the Center of Episode VII Merchandise?

The heroes of Episode VII---the good guys---were Rey, a young white woman, and Finn, a...

January 17, 2017

Martin Luther King, Jr., Shape-Shifter

I hate to sound like I'm picking on Kasich. He was the only Republican presidential...

January 03, 2017

Test Scores Are Not Predictive of School Quality

I've often seen it claimed that increased school choice has the potential to benefit poor...

December 2016

December 30, 2016

“People fear those they’ve wronged”

I wrote yesterday about conservative commentator Michael Savage's claims that white children would become "slaves...

December 29, 2016

White Children in a Majority-Minority Future

People like Savage don't generally fear a more diverse world, a world where white children...

December 27, 2016

The Many Colors of Rogue One

My second grader saw both this movie and last year's The Force Awakens. These are...

November 2016

November 24, 2016

My Evangelical Upbringing Had Ties to White Nationalism

These ideas were already out there. I've been aware of them for years. Trump's condemnations...

November 23, 2016

This Isn’t New

We've been pretending, for a long time now, that we're not a racist country. What's...

October 2016

October 28, 2016

Mixed-Race, How Does It Work? Mark Kirk Edition

I am not mixed-race, so I'm not going to try to speak to the mixed-race...

October 27, 2016

Robert Saunders’ Race Problem, and the Republican Party

They told us we were supposed to change the world. They told us to run...

October 07, 2016

Trump: Central Park Five Guilty Despite DNA Evidence

Today, Trump released a statement on the Central Park Five. If you haven't heard of...

September 2016

September 29, 2016

Why Trump Answered the Wrong Question on Race

Clinton responded first, talking about restoring trust between police and communities and about criminal justice...

September 23, 2016

“Things Didn’t Used To Be This Divided”

As white Americans, we will not see the racial profiling and police brutality experienced by...

September 19, 2016

The Civil Rights Movement Was Not That Long Ago

In 1960, Ruby desegregated her New Orleans elementary school. She was only six years old...

August 2016

August 30, 2016

On Choosing a School in a Segregated World

School segregation did not disappear with the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision. In...

August 11, 2016

This Pro-Life Simone Biles Meme Gets It All Wrong

Neither Planned Parenthood nor any pro-choice activist I know of would call a woman "unfit."...

August 11, 2016

Black Bloggers Respond to the Gospel Coalition

Many people wondered, when reading Clark's article, what her black son-in-law, Glenn, would have to...

August 09, 2016

The Gospel Coalition Acknowledges that Evangelicals Have a Problem with Interracial Marriage

Can we pause for a moment and remember that Bob Jones University didn't lift its...

August 04, 2016

RIP Korryn Gaines, Sovereign Citizen

I'd like to see more awareness of the public about sovereign citizens, but I admit...

July 2016

July 27, 2016

Hillary Won Because of Voters of Color

Valdez writes that voters of color voted overwhelmingly for Hillary, but it's more than that....

July 27, 2016

How Black Americans Became Democrats

"I wake up every morning in a house that was built by slaves," First Lady...

July 18, 2016

The White Invisibility of Racial Profiling

I can count on one hand the number of times I've been pulled over by...

January 2016

January 19, 2016

Martin Luther King Jr. and the Complicated Legacy of Our White Past

But that wasn't the end of my conversation with my daughter yesterday. I also told...

December 2015

December 01, 2015

New York Times Describes Robert Dear as “Gentle Loner”

Words matter. A lot.

November 2015

November 02, 2015

Matt Walsh, Police Brutality, and Victim Blaming

Victim blaming is not a victimless crime. Why? Because when we look for ways to...

October 2015

October 29, 2015

Public Schools, Police Officers, and Criminalizing Black Girls

Perhaps it is our ability to capture these moments---or rather, black teens' ability to capture...

October 21, 2015

On 911 Caller’s Racial Bias and Police Brutality

As we continue the longer conversation about race and police brutality, let's make sure we...

August 2015

August 11, 2015

Marissa Jenae Johnson: Radical Christian, Palin Supporter

This post is not about whether Johnson was right in her approach or about Johnson's...