WASHINGTON — Just days after nine black parishioners were killed in a South Carolina church, President Obamasaid the legacy of slavery still “casts a long shadow” on American life, and he said that choosing not to say the word “nigger” in public does not
I noticed the flags first.
In the most widely circulated image of Dylann Roof, who is charged with murdering nine African Americans at Charleston, S.C.’s Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, the white 21-year-old sports a jacket emblazoned with flag patches from two failed white supremacist states — Rhodesia and apartheid-era South Africa. In another shot, Roof
As he tugged open the plywood door to his newsstand Saturday morning, Charles Tone turned to one of his customers with a question.
“How can they forgive him?” said Tone, 66. “Man, I don’t even know if it can be genuine.”
The newsstand at the corner of Manchester and Vermont — the heart of a historically black
On Thursday, hours after a white gunman killed nine people in a black church in Charleston, S.C., a Confederate flag continued to fly over the grounds of the state’s Capitol.
The Supreme Court ruled the same day that Texas did not violate the First Amendment by refusing to
Addressing the shooting deaths at a black church in Charleston, S.C., President Obama condemned the politics surrounding gun control legislation and called for Americans to do something about gun violence.
It’s a call he’s made before.
“I’ve had to make statements like this too many times,” the president said Thursday in the White House briefing room. Innocent
I believe that there is a segment of our society, regardless of ethnic background, that depends on barriers outside their influence to justify their status in society. Further, that regardless of ethnicity we all face individual biases, institutional barriers and racist behaviors in this society. Therefore, those that rise above socioeconomic limitations, origin and/or a
As of last Friday, Rachel A. Dolezal was no longer an employee of Eastern Washington University. But the former adjunct instructor of Africana education, who has become the focus of a fierce debate about race and identity, may have a higher profile on campus than ever before.
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I can’t help but pity Rachel Dolezal, the white woman whose masquerade in modern-day blackface has been entertaining us since last week.
Dolezal, who headed the Spokane, Wash., chapter of the NAACP until she resigned Monday, was expected to address the controversy but instead posted a message on Facebook about “challenging the construct of race” —
Rachel Dolezal has sparked a national conversation about some of the most sensitive issues in American life — race, gender, identity and cultural inheritance. Chances are, however, it is not the teachable moment the self-made civil rights activist once dreamed about.
Dolezal, 37, resigned Monday as president of the Spokane, Wash., NAACP chapter amid revelations that
In her first interview since being accused of misrepresenting her racial background and stepping down as an N.A.A.C.P. official, Rachel A. Dolezal did not back down on Tuesday, stating “I identify as black,” although she comes from