Greenfield's McClain High School posted an apology on Facebook, but later deleted it. By Marissa Payne.

Public schools are increasingly divided by race and class. John Oliver discusses the troubling trend towards school resegregation.

Facebook’s system allows advertisers to exclude black, Hispanic, and other “ethnic affinities” from seeing ads. By Julia Angwin and Terry Parris Jr.

"I had forgotten that your parents came all the way from Thailand to serve George Washington." By Alexandra Jaffe and Traci G. Lee.

The South African city is World Design Capital, yet residents of its Khayelitsha township live in appallingly cramped, unhygienic conditions. The need for long-promised urban reform is urgent. By Oliver Wainwright.

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U.S. Department of Justice officials say that they will file criminal contempt-of-court charges against Arpaio because he wouldn’t stop targeting immigrants and Latinos in spite of a judge’s order, the Associated Press reported.

Dear Madam: Maybe I should have let it go. Turned the other cheek. We had just gotten out of church, and I was with my family and some friends on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. We were going to lunch, trying to see if there was room in the Korean restaurant down the street. You were in a rush. It was raining. Our stroller and a gaggle of Asians were in your way. But I was, honestly, stunned when you yelled at us from down the block, “Go back to China!”

It’s a strange sight: an enormous concrete obelisk, looking a whole lot like the Washington Monument, rising above the treetops about 10 miles east of Hopkinsville, Kentucky. It’s the Jefferson Davis Monument, the second-tallest obelisk in the world, erected in 1924 near the birthplace of the Confederacy’s only president. “It’s creepy here,” my father-in-law said. An obelisk in the middle of nowhere is creepy enough, but he was also referring to the other visitors — a few bikers...

The newly crowned Miss Teen USA is coming under fire for an alleged history of racist tweets. Hours after Miss Texas Teen USA Karlie Hay was named the winner of the beauty pageant in Las Vegas Saturday night, commentators began referencing old tweets featuring the N-word from Hay’s now-private personal account. On May 16th the world witnessed the crowning of Miss USA 2010. The exquisitely crafted and much coveted, diamond encrusted crown went to Rima Fakih...

After weeks of controversy, the Camden County Board of Education has decided a teacher accused of making racist statements will keep her job. The alleged racist comment happened in early October. Two students came forward and said they heard Cynthia Ramsey say if she only had ten days to live, she would kill all back people. Ramsey, a math teacher, was suspended for two weeks from the high school, but appealed her suspension and was allowed back in the classroom.

Skylar Dore was fired two days after posting a profanity-laced Facebook message. The message and his firing instantly set off charges of political correctness and hints of racial violence.

A Reuters survey found local governments in nearly a dozen, mostly Republican-dominated counties in Georgia have adopted plans to reduce the number of voting stations, citing cost savings and efficiency.

Trump’s candidacy appears to have closed the gap between right-wing extremists like longtime Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke and the mainstream in a single campaign cycle. But as someone who has spent more than twenty years studying white supremacist rhetoric before and after the Internet, I view Trump’s rise differently. It is not new but rather a continuation of a trend that has been sped up and amplified by social media.

Earlier this month, Prabhjot Singh sat down with his 4-year-old son Hukam and tried for the first time to explain the horrific incident that altered the Manhattan family's life. "A few years ago, a few men hurt me because of what I looked like, because they thought I was bad," Singh said. Hukam stared back, confused. "Why?" he asked. "Their hearts were asleep and they were not thinking about Papaji as a person," Singh said, using a Punjabi term of respect for father.

Amid signs for bait and directions to the footbridge that crosses the harbor, a handmade sign posted along Boothbay Harbor’s main street has drawn complaints of racism from tourists and residents. Several weeks ago, Linc Sample posted a sign on Townsend Avenue, just across from the Congregational Church and most visible to people as they drive out of town. Along with a silhouette of an assault rifle, the sign states, “Black Rifles Matter: Yes, we have ’em. No, you can’t take ’em.”

An email sent to some students at UMass Amherst is drawing criticism after students were told not to make drawings about Harambe, the gorilla killed at the Cincinnati Zoo earlier this year. A photo posted to Reddit Saturday indicating it is from a Cincinnati area school shows a man in a gorilla suit mockingly fighting a child. In this May 30, 2016 file photo, Alesia Buttrey, of Cincinnati, holds a sign with a picture of the gorilla Harambe during a vigil in his honor outside the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden, in Cincinnati. In May, Harambe grabbed a 4-year-old who fell into his enclosure and was shot and killed by zoo keepers.

“I don’t know for sure whether Pelosi knew Steve Israel is a virulent racist when she appointed him DCCC chair. I’m told the appointment was just about 3 things…” By Howie Klein.

The spate of all-black church burnings after Charleston did not curb old anxieties of racial hatred in the south. It amplified them. By Collier Meyerson. (June 30, 2016)

Lower courts are emboldened by a 4–4 split and the Supreme Court’s abortion ruling to strike down specious voting laws. By Mark Joseph Stern.