by Lilian Calles Barger
September 8, 2016 – The ideas of segregation and assimilation have rationalized racism and have reproduced and spread in the face of challenge by antiracist arguments. Americans have unsuccessfully attempted to root out racism through notions of self-sacrifice, “uplift suasion,” and educational persuasion.
Read MoreEarlier this week, the comedian Amy Schumer appeared on Howard Stern's SiriusXM radio show to discuss her new book, The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo.
The conversation took a serious turn when Stern asked Schumer to discuss being sexually assaulted by her boyfriend as a teenager, an episode that she writes about in the memoir.
Read MoreDear Brother Nate: I write to you as my brother because I cannot think of anything else to call you but my brother. When I learned about how you and your friend were tried for raping an intoxicated fellow student at Pennsylvania State University in 1999, the anger, embarrassment, and shame I felt were feelings I would feel for a family member.
Read MoreIn the wake of a series of black men's shooting deaths during encounters with police and the killing of five police officers in Dallas by a sniper targeting white law enforcement officers, several of the nation's leading news organizations — The Washington Post and ABC News, the New York Times and CBS News — decided to include questions about race relations in their political polls. Among the questions: How would you describe the state of race relations? Are they getting better or worse? And should the next president focus on racial issues?
Read MoreJuly 2016 – Historian Ibram X. Kendi examines the history (and present) of racist ideas in America - from the anti-Black premise that liberalism and progressivism share with segregationism, to the ways capitalism, science and religion adopted and adapted racist ideology to maintain White supremacy - and explains why the only route to ending racism lies in dismantling the policies of discrimination, not attempting to alter or police the behavior of its victims.
Read MoreYour reading list is about to get a lot longer. Lisa Lucas, the new executive director of the National Book Foundation, and Carlos Lozada, a book critic at the Washington Post, unleashed their book recommendations this morning with MPR News host Kerri Miller.
There's plenty of entertaining reads, but the list also has a serious side.
Read MoreIn our era of analytics, statistics provide a new window into the game.
We have statistics for just about everything: player efficiency ratings, Expected Possession Value-Added, win shares, usage rates … but basketball IQ?
Read MoreBlack lives in the United States are surrounded by memorials to people who did not think that black lives mattered. That is a fact of black life in America. That is a fact of black life in American academe.
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