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Despite what you may have gleaned from social media posts or cable news quarrels, you don’t actually have to pick…
U.S. Senator Tim Scott spoke at a seminar on the risk of teaching kids that they are oppressors. TheGrio's satirical quiz…
On Wednesday, authorities released footage of a Grand Rapids, Mich., police officer shooting Patrick Lyoya in the head at point-blank…
I want to apologize to Tucker Carlson. First of all, there may be a perception that I hate Tucker Carlson…
On Sept. 30, 2020, 401 years after traffickers landed in Virginia with enslaved Africans, California lawmakers passed Assembly Bill 3121.
One of the things that infuriates me about most Hollywood versions of Black history is how they cast crotchety, old…
On Monday, the Senate Judiciary Committee decided that Ketanji Brown Jackson is not qualified to serve on the U.S. Supreme…
Last week, my friend Sammy was remodeling my home when he interrupted his coworkers' work to tell them the origin…
Although I’ve wasted gallons of ink writing about racism, I have largely been unsuccessful explaining racism.
According to people who didn't pay attention in sixth-grade civics class, the president apparently is responsible for everything.
The idea of radical, anti-American non-whites secretly plotting against innocent Americans is the sum of all white fears.
Once upon a time, in a not-so-far-away kingdom built on folklore and fantasy, the citizens believed things.
If one were to view the history of Black people in America through a "racial lens," you wouldn’t start with…
Moses Dickson, one of the most important but overlooked people in Black history, was born on April 5, 1824, in…
I did not watch the Super Bowl. To be fair, I am not boycotting the NFL nor do I insist…
I’m sure you’ve read the reports about how comedian Dave Chappelle recently opposed his hometown’s plan to build affordable housing.
By every statistical measure, Black coaches in the National Football League have outperformed white coaches.
The Cliffs Notes version of the civil rights struggle in the white imagination has been reduced to “nonviolence”—no resistance whatsoever.
By now, you’ve heard that former Miami Dolphin head coach Brian Flores has filed a class-action lawsuit against the racist…
This is the origin story of critical race theory, the great migration and the civil rights movement.