These words, from the poem “Grace,” rattle in my brain from time to time. They offer comfort in some moments, and inspiration in others. On Tuesday, when Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden announced that Joy Harjo, the writer behind these emotions, will succeed Tracy […]
Writer Ta-Nehisi Coates delivers remarks before a House panel on Wednesday. Coates delivered his remarks Wednesday before a House Judiciary subcommittee in a hearing on H.R. 40, a bill that would create a commission to study and develop reparation proposals for African Americans. It was the […]
Joe Biden, the 76-year-old former vice president who hopes to secure the Democratic presidential nomination, invoked a more “civil” time in politics at a Tuesday night fundraiser by naming two unapologetically racist past colleagues. Speaking at a New York City hotel, Biden recalled his working […]
Police departments in at least five states are investigating, and in some cases condemning, their officers’ social media feeds after the weekend publication of a database that appears to catalog thousands of bigoted or violent posts by active-duty and former cops. The posts were […]
Movies about American high schools usually portray a micro-society ruled by football players, the wildly popular kings of the hallways. The cheerleaders are blond, pretty-but-bubbly ditzes; the “all-American” look is usually Anglo-Saxon, with Asian, black and Hispanic students far outnumbered by white ones. The […]
GATINEAU, Quebec — Indigenous people from across Canada cheered, and raised fists and eagle feathers, as the leader of a national inquiry into widespread violence against Indigenous women and girls announced on Monday the inquiry’s finding, equating that violence with genocide and holding Canada itself […]
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