Race
Sports
DeSean Jackson’s anti-Semitic posts continue long history of tension over Farrakhan
The Nation of Islam leader is admired for his message of self-reliance, and many look past his record of bigotry
Culture
CBS announces new goals for diversity in network writers’ rooms
Writers’ room staffs must be at least 40% Black, Indigenous and people of color in 2021-22 season
Sports
Noose comment by Penn State basketball coach points to larger NCAA problem
Too many college coaches need a basic education on racial issues
Culture
We are still charged with meeting the challenge that Frederick Douglass issued
I ask of this Independence Day: What to Black Americans is the Fourth of July?
Culture
In ‘John Lewis: Good Trouble,’ the Georgia congressman reminds us there are still many rivers to cross
Lewis’ journey from cotton sharecropper to Congress is retold in a new documentary
Culture
America is facing a reckoning over race, but we’ve seen this before
Our history shows African Americans make gains, but are stopped short of full equality
Culture
Five years ago, ‘Hamilton’ turned a revolution into a revelation — what now?
As Black Lives Matter protesters fill the streets, a show that portrays the Founding Fathers as Black and brown men gets its first national broadcast
Culture
Evaluating Black life through a different lens in the midst of COVID-19, civil unrest
How silence in a run group spoke volumes to one Black runner
Sports
The ‘comma effect’ on bias and Black lives
That grammatical pause helps explain how racism thrives