Tag: Race

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All that disunion over HBO’s ‘Confederate’ is stupid

Philip Wegmann · July 20, 2017 5:20 pm

Some 400 families were displaced by the Detroit riot. Property damage was estimated at $300 million in 1967 dollars. Forty-three people, many of them innocent bystanders, were killed. More than 1,000 people were wounded. (AP Photo/File)

The Detroit riot, 50 years later

Michael Barone · July 20, 2017 4:01 am

Perhaps diversity is harder to come by in geography research and scholarship because those who study geography are, in fact, preponderantly white and male. Just a notion.

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Only citing ‘established scholars’ promotes ‘white heteromasculinism,’ according to these professors

Emily Jashinsky · July 17, 2017 8:39 pm

On almost every measure, Western societies have become more tolerant. Racial violence has declined. Lynchings are part of an almost unimaginable past, and ethnically-motivated assaults are at an all-time low. The legal and quasi-legal forms of discrimination and segregation that persisted into the 1960s have been dismantled.

We’re very jumpy about racism, and that’s a good sign

Dan Hannan · July 17, 2017 4:01 am

Shiva Ayyadurai is a Republican running for Senate in Massachusetts. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Elizabeth Warren’s challenger on Native American claim: ‘Only a real Indian can defeat a fake Indian’

Ariella Phillips · July 12, 2017 11:45 pm

When a clearly aggravated Ayala ask the officers to explain why she was pulled over, they offer good reason. (AP Photo/Brendan Farrington)

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The police officers who stopped Aramis Ayala are not racists

Tom Rogan · July 12, 2017 9:07 pm

Jeronimo Yanez was recently acquitted. (AP Photo/Jim Mone, File)

Officer who shot and killed Philando Castile leaves police department

Josh Siegel · July 11, 2017 1:23 am

Former neighborhood watch member George Zimmerman's fatal shooting of unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin and his subsequent acquittal spawned the Black Lives Matter movement, which has mostly focused on the shooting of unarmed black men by law enforcement. (Joe Burbank/Orlando Sentinel via AP, Pool, File)

Confidence in police rebounds to 25-year high

Sean Langille · July 10, 2017 10:33 pm

"Given the 2016 national election results, as well as the upcoming national elections in 2018 and 2020, we are at a pivotal time in history," said A. Scott Bolden, NBA PAC chairman, in a statement. (Image courtesy screenshot)

Group of black lawyers and judges relaunch political arm due to 2016 election

Ryan Lovelace · July 10, 2017 5:21 pm

A bouquet of flowers adorns the grave of Philando Castile on the one-year anniversary of his death in St. Louis. Minnesota governor has proposed that a new police training fund be named in honor of Castile. (David Carson/St. Louis Post-Dispatch via AP)

Minnesota governor proposes naming police training fund after Philando Castile

Leah DePiero · July 7, 2017 5:09 pm

Linda Sarsour, left-wing political activist and Muslim-rights campaigner, has been accused of antisemitism. (AP Photo/Henny Ray Abrams, File)

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Linda Sarsour is a sad attention seeker, not a terrorist

Tom Rogan · July 7, 2017 12:27 pm

Attorney General Jeff Sessions cited murder rates in some cities as part of his reasoning for preferring tougher sentences, but former Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates noted violent crime is at historic lows and said there is no evidence that some cities' violence is connected to shorter prison terms for drug offenders. (Bob Andres/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP)

Justice Department: Majority of hate crimes go unreported

Kelly Cohen · June 29, 2017 4:01 am