Tag Archives: racism

Six short plays by emerging Black playwrights tackle racism and civil rights, heroes and villains, and family dynamics.

With 'Razzmatazz' Christopher Moore has written another homage to noir that leaves you chortling with glee.

Soft & Quiet is about women taking initiative to form a hate group which seeks to bond in word and deed.

In 'Master,' a thriller at SXSW, three Black women look for success at an elite university and end up fighting more than they bargained for.

On 'Stax '68: A Memphis Story,' history never looked so bleak while sounding so good. A brief glance at the track lists will begin to open your eyes, but the history of the record company from 1968 will blow your mind.

Joseph J. Ellis invites readers to revisit the writings of the Founding Founders to tackle today's issues in his latest book, 'American Dialogue: The Founders and Us.'

A timely story about racism that might have been enjoyable had the author simply kept it straight (chronological) and simple.

Baldwin saw himself as a witness, but the FBI saw him as a prime player in the struggle for black liberation.

Gone for over half a century, William Edward Burghardt Du Bois lives on through his thought and his prose. A new edition from Restless Books offers an excellent opportunity to broaden our perspective on questions of race in America by increasing our understanding of racism's history and sociology, enlightened by one of the country's most creative minds.

Mr. Trump apparently tapped into this deep-seated, Southern brand of rancor and resentment – the feelings of hatred, bigotry, misogyny, and yes, racism, too, whether overt or covert – in short, the ugliness of it all! – and in the process, unleashed the beast within, the worst in our already tarnished (white) nature. The rest is history.