While eliminating Job Corps will have a demonstrable impact on disadvantaged youth overall, there is outsized fallout for minorities in result to putting this particular program on the chopping block.

Jenkins' Purpose has earned him his first Tony nomination. Will his turn as a complicated patriarch be enough to power him ...

In November 1935, the Iowa newspaper Lake Park News recounted a recent successful high school carnival which featured a ...

The idea of some Black people being “one of the good ones” is an idea created to protect white supremacy. It allows racism to live even when kids like Lance meet Black people and realize they are just ...

The everyday takeaway is that losses are inevitable in life and we are not defined by those losses. We are defined by our ...

It’s OK to say “gay” — as long as you’re not in Florida — but let’s just banish these offenders from polite conversation ...

I don’t do this with Fran. I let her tell me stories, and rejoice that I’m never angry about them or her. Until today. Today, I’m angry and sullen, and my polyamorous sex life has just ruined ...

Consider, for instance, how presidential nominee Ronald Reagan popularized the “welfare queen trope.” By highlighting a high-profile case of a Black woman prosecuted for committing fraud as the ...

When Clarence Thomas was in college, he wore a beret, camouflage gear, and combat boots. He wanted to join the Black Panther Party and had a Malcolm poster on his bedroom wall, even memorizing some of ...

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