AntiRacism & Privilege

Other factors have come and gone for the Right, but racism has always been there.

In a world where Kevin Garnett, Harold Ford, and Halle Berry all check "black" on the census, even the argument that racial labels refer to natural differences in physical traits doesn't hold up.

On Tuesday, Slate.com contributor Aisha Harris posted a story titled "The Troubling Viral Trend of the “Hilarious” Black Neighbor," in which she described how she believes the internet picks on bla...

Fascinating “Ask Reddit” thread posted a day ago, asked by a humble minority male: White people: what’s it like being white? As a non-white person, I’ve always wondered what it’s like to be white. How is it being white?

A Dutch study found that 'when more attention in class is being paid to the multicultural society, the liberalising effect of positive contact in class on youngsters' xenophobic attitude decreases'.

We live in an ahistorical culture that continually attempts to deny the white supremacy that determines who is and isn’t defined as a U.S. citizen, a criminal, a terrorist or a victim. A trip through our history is instructive.

Race Manners: You're within your rights to humiliate friends for their bigoted humor, but there's a better way.

Why do retailers, restaurants and grocery stores stay out of communities that can afford (and want) them?

The belief that male "black teens" are inherently more likely to be criminals is ingrained in our society.

The idea that some racial groups are, on average, smarter than others is without a doubt among the most discussed (and debunked) “taboos” in American intellectual history.

With the gutting of foreign coverage by most U.S. newspapers and the need to populate infinite Web space with content, a new creature has emerged: the foreign affairs blogger. Max Fisher, who hosts...

Recent studies from both the Urban Institute and the Pew Forum tell the story of America's growing racial wealth gap. In the May issue of Sojourners magazine, Otis Moss III talked about the unjust trend.

One click on the send button can be so revealing and sometimes painful. My young, 20-something friend didn’t mean to hurt me as he shared over and over again that as a white male he really didn’t care about the plight of African Americans.  But he did.

The wealth gap is not a mistake. It is the logical outcome of policy and democratic will.

The wealth gap might still be growing, experts said, further dimming the prospects for economic advancement for current and future generations of nonwhite Americans.

But you won't hear that on the popular miniseries "The Bible"

Racist attitudes at the world's fair events—channeled by Bioshock—both reflected and reinforced the attitude of a United States that had empire-building ambitions abroad.

When people talk about their pets, one of the first things they mention is the color. There are all kinds of elaborate and non-judgment inducing names for the colors of pets: tabby, smoke, calico, brindle, fawn, grizzle, merele, chinchilla, tortie, and of course any combination of the above....

We’re not as comfortable when it comes to people.

The Nashville star records a tune apologizing for wearing the Confederate flag -- but justifying it, too VIDEO

In a preview of this week's show, James Cone and Taylor Branch describe racial justice as a "gateway" to opportunities for broader civil rights and economic equality.