In the 1960s, America burned. Black communities’ frustration against racist policies, economic isolation, and police brutality spilled into the streets in cities across the country. Hundreds were ...
OPINION: The report was refreshingly honest about the impact of systemic racism and ways to address it. Tragically, such honesty, in a nation currently being devoured by its inner racial demons, is ...
It may seem that Americans are only now discussing racism and all its ramifications out in the open after last year's nationwide protests against police brutality and the glaring social inequalities ...
In 1968, the Kerner Commission report on race and poverty declared that America had become two societies — one black and one white, separate and unequal. Forty years later, two groups of college ...
A widely condemned media bill being passed through the Hungarian parliament provides a dangerous road map for how Trump may escalate his attacks on the press in the future. The Lede Donald Trump’s War ...
On the evening of Aug. 11, 1965, five days after then-President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act, police in Los Angeles pulled over 21-year-old Marquette Frye on suspicion of reckless ...
Elizabeth Hinton is a professor of history, law and African American studies at Yale and the author of the forthcoming “America on Fire: The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since ...
Archival Recording: The cry of the rioters was, "Burn, baby, burn." They torched one building after another with Molotov cocktails. Archival Recording: This is bad. The Safeway market was among the ...
Former U.S. Sen. Fred Harris is the last surviving member of the Kerner commission, appointed in 1967 to study the root causes of social unrest in... The Kerner Commission's Last Living Member Says We ...