Tag: racism
Robert Reich: The Xenophobe Party
April 2013Can we just get a grip? Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is a naturalized American citizen.
Bees
April 2013Not much ever happened in Blaustein, but, even if it did, I would still remember the words she said, because it was the first time I’d heard them used, and their meaning, the parentheses they opened in my German existence every time someone used them, shocked me and made me feel like an intruder.
Meaghan Winter: Walking While Furtive
March 2013A look inside the courtroom on the opening day of Floyd v. NYC, the class-action lawsuit challenging the NYPD’s stop-and-frisk policy.
Barbara J. Miner: The Meaning of Choice
February 2013What Milwaukee, home of the nation’s oldest school voucher system, can teach us about desegregation, measuring school success, and decoding the rhetoric of “school choice.”
Sasha Houston Brown: Nothing Says Native American Like White Stars in Headdresses
December 2012How American Indian identity is reflected in pop culture.
Rachel Riederer: How the Million Hoodies March Quells Our Unreasonable Fears
March 2012Hoodiephobia is real, irrational, racial—and that’s why the Million Hoodies March is so important.
On the Fly: Belva Davis
August 2011Broadcast journalist Belva Davis on her family’s move from Louisiana to Oakland, California, her new memoir, and becoming the first female African American television reporter on the West Coast.
