Race Ethnicity
Salvadoran-American gang problem needs to be tackled
Salvadoran Americans have become stereotypically associated with gangs. Continuing media coverage of the issue, most recently of a massive law-enforcement crackdown on Nov. 15 targeting a Salvadoran-American gang in Los Angeles, has helpe... Read more
US Department of Education
The Education Debate Over Minority Voters
Are minority parents seeking better schools for their kids supporters of charter schools, or leading figures in the resistance to a choice-based education reform movement? Read more
Paige Bollman
Wisconsin’s Chronic Black-White Achievement Gap
The nation’s report card demonstrates yet again that students of color are underserved—and education reformers are all too eager to bank on the opportunity. Read more
Lorie Shaul
Long Denied a Voice in Local Schools, Camden Citizens Ready for Historic Vote
Past governance has been racist public policy in the form of municipal paternalism. Read more
Tony Webster
Midwest Dispatch: Is Worthington, Minnesota, the Center of the Universe?
One Midwestern town finds itself in a race war stoked by the gentry to preserve their own wealth. But there is a glimmer of hope here, too. Read more
Maryland GovPics
The Charter-to-Prison Pipeline
The charter system that often paints itself as a better option for black parents does not acknowledge the harm rigid disciplinary policies can impose on black students. Read more
Midwest Dispatch: What Happens When Trump Comes to Town
The President’s upcoming visit to Minneapolis is being framed as something of a grudge match with Congresswoman Ilhan Omar. But that’s just one element of the racial dynamics surrounding this tour stop. Read more
Library of Congress
We’ve Never Forgiven Haiti for Being Black
American public policy surrounding Haiti still contributes to ongoing misery there today—including conditions that have erupted in protests in recent weeks. Read more
Wikimedia Commons
What LGBTQ People Want
Like all LGBTQ people, I am layered. I cannot be viewed as just black or queer or a mother. Politicians and policy makers must understand all of these complexities. Read more
Neon Tommy
Segregation Is Worse in Charter Schools: a Q&A with Julian Vasquez-Heilig
“If the charter schools don’t want to be diverse, they don’t have to be.” Read more
Johnny Silvercloud
What Do Black Voters Want?
A new census of black America shows that despite a high level of political engagement, more than half of respondents think that politicians do not care about black people. Read more
Maryland GovPcics
The Persistence of School Segregation
Students are still isolated in their own schools because almost no one looks like them, or they are concentrated in schools in which almost everyone does. Read more
Black Trans Women’s Lives Matter
Thus far in 2019, at least twelve black transgender women have been murdered. Read more
Official White House Photo by Pete Souza
Waiting to Be An American
In terms of how I feel, as a lesbian of African descent, I am not an American, not completely. Read more
Comment: The Politics of Racism
To say that Donald Trump is a racist is to state the obvious but miss the point. Read more
Editor’s Note: Letters for a Better World
More than 1,000 people come to The Progressive’s website every week to look at a single story: James Baldwin’s 1962 masterpiece, “A Letter to My Nephew.” Read more
Democrats Can’t Run from Identity Politics
Political pundits say progressives are alienating working class whites by talking too much about race. They're wrong. Read more
Black Officer, White Robe
Ron Stallworth, Colorado Springs Police Department’s first black undercover detective speaks about one of the most ironic infiltrations of all time. Read more
AP Photo/Charles Harrity
The Legacy of Muhammad Ali
An excerpt from “What Truth Sounds Like” about race in America. Read more
Picturing a Struggle for Civil Rights: Black and White Photojournalists Covered a Common Cause
Eleven images from a new exhibit capture the role photojournalists played in giving Americans a window into the Civil Rights movement, and what it was up against. Read more
The All-Nite Images / Otto Yamamoto
Erica Garner: A Life and Loss that Demands an Inclusive Progressive Agenda
Erica’s death occurs in the midst of a growing maternal mortality crisis that hits mothers of color particularly hard. The drivers of the crisis are complex—but we know what they are—and we can do something. Read more
