One more state works to do away with a reminder of genocide. Vermont is one signature away from abolishing Columbus Day altogether and permanently recognizing Indigenous Peoples’ Day. The Vermont Legislature passed a bill that ...
The future of the United States recognizes policy as the way to combat racism. While many of the country’s institutions still benefit from the work of enslaved men and women and uphold the policies that ...
In an interview with CBS anchor Gayle King, which aired on Sunday, Virginia State Gov. Ralph Northam referred to enslaved Africans as “indentured servants.” The governor, who refuses to resign after his blackface transgression while ...
“He said he would sell me into slavery, if I didn’t do what he said, and then he started making little jingles about slavery,” said LaShanti Duncan. That’s the type of harassment Duncan and Imani ...
State Sen. Joseph Silk (R-Broken Bow) is pushing his “Abolition of Abortion in Oklahoma Act,” which calls on the state to ignore federal law on abortion. And he’s using the argument that states can ignore ...
Dinesh D’Souza, a controversial right-wing filmmaker and pundit, who has made racist remarks about former President Obama, went on Fox News on Monday to contest Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s statement that the Electoral College is a remnant ...
The white social studies teacher in New York City Public Schools, Patricia Cummings, fired after stepping on the backs of three Black students’ during a “lesson” on slavery, claims that she is the victim of ...
For every woman of color who watched the hearing today, or has followed any of the drama up to this point, our backs are heavy. We sit here and watch accommodations made for Christine Blasey ...
Former President Barack Obama kicked off his campaigning for November’s midterms, on Friday afternoon, and took jabs at President Trump and the spineless backbones of his Republican constituents. Obama spared no expense rebuking the administration’s ...
After two years of protests from students, Florida State University has agreed to remove the statue of founder Francis Eppes VII, grandson of Thomas Jefferson and known slave-owner, from the school’s entrance. “To keep the ...
