Racism

Thirty years later, we need to prevent future Greensboro massacres »

By Kevin Alexander Gray, November 3, 2009

On the morning of Nov. 3, 1979, at the corner of Carver and Everitt streets in Greensboro, N.C., 40 Ku Klux Klansmen and American Nazis took out shotguns and automatic weapons from the trunks of their cars and opened fire on black, white and Latino anti-Klan demonstrators and union organizers who had gathered at Morningside Homes, a black housing project.read more

America’s racism runs deeper than a Philly pool »

By David A. Love, July 23, 2009

The Valley Swim Club incident forced me to remember my own painful and humiliating experiences with racism, growing up as a black youth in America in the 1970s and 1980s.read more

Poking the Racist Beehive »

By Chip Berlet, January 2009 Issue

Obama’s election is already provoking a backlash.read more

Obama Can't Dodge Race Issue »

Kevin Alexander Gray, September 23, 2008

When one of the biggest issues in the race is race itself, it is unclear that Obama can win. And it’s also unclear how low he will go to try, haplessly, to nullify that issue.read more

Racism and the Race »

By Matthew Rothschild, October 2008 Issue

The race boils down to racism. All things being equal, Barack Obama would win the presidency hands down.read more

Birmingham, 45 years later »

By Barbara Ransby, September 11, 2008

Forty-five years ago, one of the most pivotal racist attacks of the civil rights era occurred. Local members of the Ku Klux Klan planted a bomb under the steps of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala., on a Sunday morning, Sept. 15, 1963. The explosion killed four young girls, three of them age 14 and one of them only 11 years old.read more

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