Authors like Kwame Alexander, Lulu Delacre and Sheetal Sheth are fighting against banned books amid critical race theory debate.

A school board in London, Ont., has removed a high school principal from his job after video surfaced on social media of him wearing the hair of a Black student as if it were a wig and then, six months later, wearing the hair again as part of a Halloween costume.

Religion is the “final frontier” of personal prejudice, with attitudes to faith driving negative perceptions more than ethnicity or nationality, a report to be published tomorrow will say. How We Get Along, a two-year study of diversity by the Woolf Institute, is due to conclude that most people are tolerant of those from different ethnic or national backgrounds, but many have negative attitudes based on religion.

It was 2011 when Rue Mapp was followed by a white woman in an Oakland, California, park, while out on a national campaign to get local families connected with nature. The woman had spotted the group en route to the park and decided to follow them. When they got off the bus, she followed them all the way through the park, and when they began to play in the dirt, she started to harass them. She claimed they were bringing “invasive species” into the park.

These 28 days of Black History Month are dedicated to the sometimes painful and absolutely essential history of Americans of African descent. The month also brings the usual grumblings demanding a white equivalent. And those of us who study culture and history are tasked to explain the many reasons why that is a horrible idea (again).

Like Nazis looking for Jewishness by checking the foreskins of prisoners, the identitarians of both fascist and social justice strands divine from pale skin and penises the indelible mark of the power to dominate. By Rhyd Wildermuth.

The sociologist Margaret Hagerman spent two years embedded in upper-middle-class white households, listening in on conversations about race. By Joe Pinsker. (Sept. 4, 2018)

Art school Émile Cohl in Lyon, France formally apologized after students noticed that a group photo on the school's United States promotional web site had been manipulated to make several of the people appear to have dark skin. The manipulated photo is at the very top of this post. Below it is another image, without the alterations, from the same series of snapshots.

We asked a preeminent historian to investigate our coverage of people of color in the U.S. and abroad. Here’s what he found.

A former neo-Nazi, Angela King, says her life was radically changed after she was befriended by a group of black Jamaican women while she was serving time in prison. Thanks to their compassion, she said in an interview with BBC News, she was able to let go of feelings of prejudice and hatred that had dominated her for most of her life — and was even able to embrace her homosexuality, and begin a relationship with a black woman.

A Catholic priest and former Ku Klux Klan member has apologised to a black couple for erecting a burning cross in their front garden during a campaign of abuse more than 40 years ago.  Father William Aitcheson wrote a handwritten letter to Philip and Barbara Butler saying he “sincerely regrets the suffering he caused” when he burned a cross in front of the heir home in College Park, Maryland in January 1977. 

Flyers with “It’s okay to be white” messages were found all over the UC Davis campus. The flyers were on sandwich boards, underneath bridges and on garbage cans. The signs went up in campus cultural safe zones too. “There was also one next to the Chicano Latino Resource Center, as well,” said student Ales Lee. “Are you insinuating that people of color are saying it’s bad to be white?”

Places like Troy [New York] used to be lily-white, and most of their police departments still are. That’s a problem for the black and brown people moving from big cities like LA and New York in search of quieter places to raise families. By Albert Samaha.

Twenty years ago, a brown-skinned boy was shot to death near the Rio Grande. What fate awaits my own son? By Sterry Butcher.

People have a tendency to perceive black men as larger and more threatening than similarly sized white men, according to research published by the American Psychological Association. “Unarmed black men are disproportionately more likely to be shot and killed by police, and often these killings are accompanied by explanations that cite the physical size of the person shot,” said lead author John Paul Wilson, PhD, of Montclair State University. “Our research suggests that these descriptions may reflect stereotypes of black males that do not seem to comport with reality.”

Rachel Dolezal, the former civil rights activist whose claim to be black caused outcry in 2015, has said she is living in penury and facing the prospect of losing her home in a new interview Yet Dolezal, who was a N.A.A.C.P. branch president when it was discovered she had been born to white parents, said in the interview with the Guardian that she will not "apologise and grovel" for her actions. She generated global headlines after questions from a local reporter led to her parents releasing childhood photos of her and denouncing her as a fraud.

Even as the march’s diversity was being celebrated, it was also causing tension. By Karen Grigsby Bates.

Nearly seven in ten Republicans prefer America as it was in the 1950s, a nostalgia of course entirely unavailable to a person like me, for in that period I could not vote, marry my husband, have my children, work in the university I work in, or live in my neighborhood. Time travel is a discretionary art: a pleasure trip for some and a horror story for others. By Zadie Smith.

Medical students looking to score high on their board exams sometimes get a bit of uncomfortable advice: Embrace racial stereotypes. “You see ‘African American,’ automatically just circle ‘sickle cell,’” said Nermine Abdelwahab, a first-year student at the University of Minnesota Medical School, recounting tips she’s heard from older classmates describing the “sad reality” of the tests.

In anticipation of its upcoming thirty-fifth anniversary in 2017, Library of America recently asked members of its Advisory Council to identify an American writer or written work that had a transformative impact on them. Historian, author, and LOA Advisor Douglas Brinkley wrote back with the following appreciation of the work of Albert Murray, in particular the “biting logic” and “no-holds barred polemic” of Murray’s first work, The Omni–Americans (1970).