Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics
One of the ways we often try to argue that racial discrimination persists is to cite…
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Touré on Manufactured Perceptions of Darren Wilson and Mike Brown
Over at the WaPo, Touré has a great piece up about how the media reduces people…
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The Limits of Respectability Politics Con’t
Over on the Toast, Ezekiel Kweku has an sharply incisive piece about Respectability Politics and its…
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Perception of Police Varies By Race
In news that will surprise probably no one, recent polling by the Pew Research Center for…
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The Past Week and the Work Ahead
The summer has been filled with news of tragic deaths of unarmed African American men and…
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What It’s Like To Investigate Police Misconduct
On NPR’s Code Switch blog today, Monica Potts shares her experience as an investigator of police…
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Questioning How The Media Portrays African Americans
There’s a large body of research which shows that media portrayals help to form, perpetuate and…
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Implicit Bias in the Schools
Today over at HuffPo, Law Professor Leland Ware has an important post about the school to…
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Inclusion and “My Brother’s Keeper”
One criticism that has arisen about My Brother’s Keeper is that, by focusing solely on black…
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Stopping Automatic Suspensions
So good news from the world of education. As the American Prospect’s Bryce Wilson Stucki reports,…
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Do The Right Thing at 25
Do The Right Thing, one of the greatest movies of all time, turns 25 this week….
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Tenure is Not the Problem
sonsandbrothers: A California court has struck down teacher tenure and seniority protections. The implications of this…