Race Matters - Page 8

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.

Jeffrey Feigenbaum of Plainfield, Illinois, is charged with two counts of hate crime and one count each of misdemeanor battery and disorderly conduct.

There's a recent trend on social media in which content creators say the phrase "sit down" as a white mom, then a Black mom, then an Asian mom, then an Indian mom.

The recent cases of Karmelo Anthony and Cyrus Carmack-Belton feel like a get-back or a snapback, backlash that has been waiting underneath the Black Lives Matter movement.

Days after the sixth anniversary of George Floyd's public murder, the Minnesota Republican Party held a moment of silence for his killer, Derek Chauvin.

In the clip from his 2023 appearance on some right-winger's podcast, Ramaswamy declared, “A Black baby is probably safer…in the inner city of Chicago, than in the womb of his own Black mother."

Karen Whitmire Savage was caught on video hanging a Black baby doll from a classroom television using an electrical cord.