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John Oliver Outs Tucker Carlson As White Supremacist In Damning Segment
The “Last Week Tonight” host ripped apart the Fox News personality’s “lazy racism.”
A Tax Code Optimized for White Wealth Leaves Black Americans Behind
Dorothy Brown has spent her career as a law professor documenting racism in a tax system that’s supposedly colorblind.
What Really Happened at ‘Reply All’?
A podcast was applauded for its reporting on embedded racism in the workplace. It didn’t make it to the third episode.
N.Y.P.D. Releases Secret Misconduct Records After Repeal of Shield Law
Inspired by racial justice protests, the Legislature repealed a law blocking police misconduct records from scrutiny. Now the outcomes of thousands of cases are available online.
The Fashion World Promised More Diversity. Here’s What We Found.
Tracking an industry where Black representation has been rare.
Passed Over 3 Times, a Black Marine Colonel Is Being Promoted to General
The promotion could set Col. Anthony Henderson on a path to becoming the first Black four-star Marine general. Only 25 African-Americans in the Marines have reached general in any form.
He was denied his varsity letters in high school because he was gay. He’s getting them at age 79.
Tom Ammiano was denied an honor in school because of his "high-pitched voice and effeminate mannerisms." He just got it.
House passes sweeping LGBTQ rights bill
The Equality Act faces a tougher battle in the Senate, where 60 votes must be found to bypass a filibuster.
A Black Soldier’s Heroism, Overlooked in 1965, May Finally Be Lauded in 2021
Comrades repeatedly told the Army that Capt. Paris Davis, one of the first Black officers in the Special Forces, deserved the Medal of Honor. The Army kept losing the paperwork.
Shaka King Goes to Hollywood
How the “Judas and the Black Messiah” filmmaker went from outsider to trailblazer with a studio movie about the Black Panther leader Fred Hampton.
‘Race and Place Matter’: A Biden Adviser Tackles Coronavirus Inequities
Dr. Marcella Nunez-Smith discusses her role overseeing President Biden’s coronavirus equity task force and the challenge of tackling disparities in the pandemic.
A Century Ago, White Protestant Extremism Marched on Washington
Kelly J. Baker is a writer and scholar of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s. She sees frightening similarities between that culture and the violence at the Capitol on Jan. 6.
Stutthof camp: Woman, 95, accused of aiding Nazi mass murder
A 95-year-old woman who worked for the commandant of a Nazi concentration camp has been charged in north Germany with aiding and abetting mass murder.
From Civil Rights to Black Lives Matter
Protest expert Aldon Morris explains how social justice movements succeed