Race Matters - Page 16

Senatobia Police Chief Harold Vanderford, who became chief of the department last fall, has been exposed as the latest contestant on Bigots With Badges.

OPINION: While this is a significant victory for Attiah, what, if anything, did her victory do for the collective condition of Black journalism?

OPINION: The U.S. ambassador to the Dominican Republic thinks a portrait by Black artist Kehinde Wiley is "woke," apparently because it — *check notes* — features Dominicans.

OPINION: In just one game, the WNBA protected white players while leaving Black players and refs exposed to a growing threat it keeps ignoring.

The Urban League’s “State of Black America” report addresses the economic impact the Trump administration's attacks on DEI have had on Black people.

Sandy Brondello’s “protected species” comment exposes the severe lack of sideline protection for Black players in a league that refuses to hire Black women coaches.

The exhibit, which opened in 2010, honors the lives of the nine enslaved people held there who were owned as property by President George Washington.

The NAACP cited the Supreme Court’s decision to gut the Voting Rights Act as one of the key motivators for its record spending ahead of the midterms.

The public demonization of WNBA star Alyssa Thomas shows how society treats Black masculine-presenting women’s appearance, strength, and authority as an infraction.

While some see July 4th as a symbol of national pride and possibility, others see it as a celebration of a freedom that has never fully included them.

When Black women exceed expectations, blessings become sources of discomfort, disrupting assumptions about how should possess back amounts of care, comfort, and joy.

Before Kohen Wiley was shot, his mother lifted him up so police officers could see there was a child in the car.