| Jun 5, 2019 | Editors Picks|Environment / Health|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyRacism is often viewed as an action performed by individuals. But even if we got rid of all America’s prejudiced individuals, racism would still exist in the systems they built. Systemic racism, writer Jenee Desmond-Harris explains, refers to how racial disparities...
| Aug 6, 2018 | Editors Picks|HP Featured|Rights / DemocracySupreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh has a history of interpreting the law in a way that serves the interests of the powerful over equality and justice. Having grown up in the segregated South, I’m acutely aware of what’s at stake. I’m...
| May 30, 2018 | Rights / DemocracyStarbucks recently closed its stores for a one-day racial bias training for all its employees. Unfortunately, I think there’s a good chance it won’t make much difference. How can I say so confidently that a day of training will have no effect? Because I...
| Mar 1, 2017 | Rights / DemocracyMost of us know folks who owe everything they have in life to education. That explains, I suspect, why we nod in agreement whenever we hear somebody describe education as the ultimate antidote to inequality. Education certainly can serve as a brake on our widening...
| Apr 27, 2016 | Rights / DemocracyIt wasn’t so long ago when one of the most powerful justifications wielded in support of segregation was religious belief. Throughout the American South, state-sanctioned Jim Crow laws legally separated blacks from whites. Schools were segregated. Restaurants...
