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How the Work of Thomas Dixon Shaped White America’s Racist Fantasies

Dixon’s fiction…became the preeminent shaper of America’s racial imagination at the turn of the century and for the next sixty years.

JCPS' white majority school board hurts Black students. We have the power to change this.

I have seen how city leadership and white members of our school board treat Black students and families in their decision making.

Evangelical Christians once were saved. After Trump, they’re lost.

Religionnews.com Blog: For much of the last four years, Donald Trump has put this rhetoric at the center of his message. Trump will be remembered as a president who did more than capture white evangelical Christians’ votes:

Why we must oppose politics like SB 138 that seek to shrink young minds

Courier-Journal.com Blog: On the evening of April 24, 1968, America was a racially traumatized nation. Only a few weeks prior, a sniper’s bullet killed Dr. Martin Luther King jr. It was unclear what direction our nation was headed.

California Owes Reparations for Making Ronald Reagan President

America is in the birthing pains of a new racial age. The struggle is as old as the nation itself, as Black justice strives against white fears to shape our nation’s soul and shared future. And no two states better represent the competing visions for our national destiny than Florida and California…

Finding hope on Martin Luther King Day, even in these times of struggle

Salon.com: It is easy to wonder how to hold on to hope for King’s dream of racial and economic equity in an age at war with both. Celebrating King’s legacy is complicated and confusing when, as…


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“Bible of scientific racism”: The origins of Donald Trump’s obsession with genes

Donald Trump started his week on the campaign trail Monday talking about the “bad genes” carried by immigrants — just one of many comments he’s made in recent months that align genetic makeup with essential value as a human being.

Opinion: The ideas in Project 2025? Reagan tried them, and the nation suffered

Project 2025, the Heritage Foundation’s conservative playbook that would overhaul much of the federal government under a second Trump administration has sparked fear and concern from voters despite the former president’s attempt to distance his campaign from the plan…