Jan 15 Iowa’s Steve King off House committees after white supremacy remark By Matthew Daly, Laurie Kellman, Associated Press Veteran Republican Rep. Steve King will be blocked from committee assignments for the next two years after lamenting that white supremacy and white nationalism have become offensive terms. Continue reading
Jan 14 Mitch McConnell denounces Rep. Steve King over white supremacy remark By Laurie Kellman, Matthew Daly, Associated Press The Senate majority leader is the highest-ranking Republican to criticize King, R-Iowa, who lamented last week that white supremacy and white nationalism have become offensive terms. Meanwhile, House Democrats said they'll seek formal punishment for King. Continue reading
Oct 28 Georgia election fight shows that black voter suppression, a southern tradition, still flourishes By Frederick Knight, The Conversation Georgia’s Republican Secretary of State Brian Kemp has been sued after an Associated Press investigation revealed that his office suppressed 53,000 voter registrations – most of them filed by African-Americans. Continue reading
Aug 17 Los Angeles mayor Garcetti: Trump sows division, does ‘racist things’ By Michael R. Blood, Associated Press Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, considering a 2020 presidential run, said Thursday that President Donald Trump has done "plenty of racist things" to divide the nation while failing to deliver on health care reform and other promises. Continue reading
Aug 10 Watch 14:55 A year ago, the Charlottesville rally shined a light on white supremacists and sparked overdue conversations It was one of the darkest chapters in recent memory: hundreds of white supremacists gathered in Charlottesville, Virginia, for a rally to protest the removal of Confederate monuments, during which a counterprotester and two police officers died. William Brangham talks… Continue watching
Jul 13 Papa John’s to pull founder’s image from marketing By Candice Choi, Associated Press Papa John's, which has had founder John Schnatter at the center of its logo and in TV ads, plans to pull his image from its marketing after reports he used a racial slur. Continue reading
May 24 Watch 5:36 Pardoned boxer Jack Johnson just ‘wanted to live well,’ Ken Burns says President Trump granted a rare posthumous pardon to Jack Johnson, boxing's first African-American heavyweight champion. An all-white jury convicted him in 1913 of violating the federal Mann Act, which made it illegal to transport women across state lines for "immoral… Continue watching
Mar 27 Watch 8:11 How National Geographic is facing its racist history By Charlayne Hunter-Gault National Geographic has long provided a unique lens to view the world -- one that has sometimes distorted the lives of people of color. Now the 130-year-old magazine turns the lens on itself, with an issue devoted to the topic… Continue watching
Jan 24 How have Trump’s comments on race affected you? By Laura Santhanam The PBS NewsHour wants to hear your story. Continue reading
Jan 15 Watch 8:31 Jelani Cobb: ‘It’s impossible to avoid the conclusion that Donald Trump is racist’ By PBS News Hour President Trump's recent reported use of vulgar language to describe some immigrants has prompted backlash from both the right and left. It also raises questions about his own personal history on issues of race, and how his perspective affects the… Continue watching