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Ta-Nehisi Coates has been on fire recently, with a series of extremely thoughtful posts on the Civil War. Check out his recent archives. ...

This year for Martin Luther King Day, I wanted to feature a letter written in 1865 by a former slave to his former master. I've linked ...

Obviously not everyone on the right opposed to Obama, and health care reform specifically, is a racist. But it's ridiculous to pretend ...

It's been an interesting couple of weeks for racism. Let's take a look, shall we? Most of the World Consists of White Conservatives...

The Gates incident, where Professor Henry Gates was arrested at his own home, has been well covered by now, but it remains troubling. Presi...

Fox and Friends ' Brian Kilmeade has never been mistaken for a bright guy, but even for him, this is bad - on several levels: I'll b...

Check out this astounding ad from India for "Fair and Lovely": You don't need to understand the language to get the odious mes...

When Martin Luther King, Jr. went down to Memphis in 1968, it was to assist with a garbage worker's strike. Two workers had been slowly...

(The vandalized Obama campaign office in Vincennes, Indiana. Photo by Ray McCormick.) Last week, NPR ran a segment I found pretty despicabl...

Take the following Sadly, No! post: Another reason to elect Hussein Obama X as Supreme Leader of Crackerland Posted at 3:12 by Brad So he I...

With the recent arrival of MLK Day, it's time once again for doctrinaire conservatives to pretend that liberals are racists and if Dr. M...