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Aladdin 2.0: Hollywood still isn’t serious about diversity

Last week, Disney Studios released a live-action version of its 1990s animated film, Aladdin. The live-action film has b...

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Take a Knee Sunday represented a major rejection of President Donald Trump’s attacks on players in the NFL. In a r...

SpearIt | October 1st, 2017

Last month, President Donald Trump made his first foreign trip as commander in chief of the United States to Saudi Arabi...

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Shortly after arriving at New York’s Kennedy Airport on May 21, 1964, Malcolm X was greeted by the largest throng ...

Nicholas Patler | March 27th, 2017

My little brother, a freshman in high school, recently texted me, “I just had history class where we talked about ...

Nabiha Nuruzzaman | March 10th, 2017

Notwithstanding ebbs and flows, as well as variation across regions, opposition to racism, ethnocentrism and nationalism...

R. Charles Weller | March 8th, 2017

After taking a trip to Cuba, Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates had this to say about pervasive racism there: “I ...

Devan Hawkins | February 16th, 2017

In 2008, Barack Obama, then a senator from Illinois, rode a wave of hope and change into the White House. He was the fir...

Khaled A. Beydoun | January 17th, 2017