The Confederate Flag Battle Slips Into Silly Territory
The Confederate Flag needs to be removed from official places of honor, but do we really need to worry about reruns of The Dukes of Hazzard?
The Confederate Flag needs to be removed from official places of honor, but do we really need to worry about reruns of The Dukes of Hazzard?
The Supreme Court agreed yesterday to wade back into the thorny issue of race and higher education.
The people who continue to claim that the Confederate Flag is about anything other than hatred, racism, and a nation that celebrated slavery are lying to you and to themselves.
If Jim Webb runs for President, he will be the only candidate in either party who is on record defending the Confederate Battle Flag. And he’s thinking of running as a Democrat.
An important tenet of the internet is “don’t read the comments.” Well, I have violated that rule of late–which means more musings on the symbols of the CSA.
The Confederate battle flag is suddenly toxic.
As Governor Haley pushes the South Carolina legislature to take the Confederate Flag down, the movement moves beyond the Palmetto State.
President Obama gave an interesting and somewhat unusual interview to a podcaster late last week, but the media is obsessed over a single word.
With notable exceptions, most of the Republican candidates for President are refusing to take a stand on the propriety of South Carolina flying the Confederate Flag. That’s called cowardice.
It’s been obvious from the moment the news broke that the murders in Charleston were rooted in racism, but some Republicans have had trouble acknowledging that.
The murders in Charleston have revived a debate that should have been over a long time ago.
A word that has come in recent years to be used to refer chiefly to Muslim fanatics obviously applies to a man who murdered nine people because they’re black.
The Supreme Court ruled that states don’t have to grant license plates that display the Confederate flag. Their decision has the potential to seriously harm the First Amendment.
Nine people died overnight in a shooting at an historic African-American Church in Charleston, South Carolina.
A black leader is running a billboard campaign to improve his community. Racism ensues.
The head of the Spokane NAACP has apparently been lying about her racial background, and that’s led to a whole other argument.
A Judge in Cleveland has found that there is probable cause to charge a Cleveland Police Officer with murder in the death of Tamir Rice, but that is hardly the end of the matter.
The Cleveland Police Department has agreed to submit to significant monitoring in the wake of a damning Justice Department investigation.
A Cleveland police officer has been acquitted of manslaughter and other charges in a case that resulted in the death of two African-American individuals.
The six Baltimore cops charged in the April death of Freddie Gray have been indicted by a Grand Jury.
If a new campaign succeeds, Harriet Tubman could replace Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill.
The Baltimore Police Department will finally be under the Federal microscope. But it took the death of Freddie Gray for it happen.
Big news out of Baltimore and, perhaps, the beginning of justice for Freddie Gray.
There is no excuse for last night’s rioting in Baltimore, but that should not deflect attention from the problems with that city’s police.
Ta-Nehisi Coates is insightful and eloquent. He’s wrong in this instance.
A volunteer for an Oklahoma Sheriff’s Department killed a suspect thanks to what can only be described as extreme criminal negligence.
Thanks to one civilian with a camera, a police officer is facing charges in what appears to clearly be an improper shooting.
Freedom of speech means freedom for all speech, even when it is racially offensive.
Another tone deaf action from leading Republicans.
A new Justice Department report has found widespread racial bias in the Ferguson Police Department, but it’s a problem that goes far beyond one Missouri suburb.
Unsurprisingly, Darren Wilson will not face federal charges in connection with the shooting of Michael Brown.
Nearly three years to the day after it started, the George Zimmerman case is essentially over.
Not surprisingly, the Federal investigation of the Michael Brown shooting is ending much like the state investigation did.
The first popularly elected African-American Senator, and the first African-American Senator to serve since the end of Reconstruction ended, has passed away.
Not surprisingly, the F.C.C. has rejected a petition to ban the word “Redskins” from the airwaves.
Chris Rock wants us to remember that Bill Cosby isn’t the only celebrity accused of rape.
Thinking about that the state, law, violence, and the Garner incident (and contributing to the tl;dr phenomenon).
Not surprisingly a new poll finds that African-Americans perceive the American justice system far differently than whites.
But, hey, don’t worry, there’s nothing racial going on here. Nothing at all.
While conservatives have been generally as appalled as others with the news out of Staten Island, some of them are looking in the wrong place for blame.
A New York City Grand Jury refuses to indict a cop who appears from all available evidence to choked a guy to death for no good reason.
Michael Brown’s stepfather made incendiary comments in the wake of the Grand Jury announcement, but they do not amount to a crime.