At the time, when explaining it to my high school friends, I referred to the situation as “my evil neighbor.” Decades later, ...

The essay served as a definitive diagnosis of American race relations. Events soon gave it the force of prophecy.

Nostalgia is a powerful political motivator for young people. But they may be yearning for an era that never existed.

In Black in Blues, Imani Perry reaches to the height of the sky and the depth of the ocean, casting the history of blue as one of both triumph and tragedy, possibility and limitation.

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What's CODE SWITCH? It's the fearless conversations about race that you've been waiting for. Hosted by journalists of color, our podcast tackles the subject of race with empathy and humor.

The current debates on blackfacing, Liam Neeson, and Black Lives Matter have taught us that racism still matters. For a long time seen as a phenomenon largely unique to Nazism and thus as an ...