Two American Muslim women were asked to leave an American Airlines plane after one of them talked to another passenger about the lack of water and food and a flight attendant said they had made him feel “unsafe”. Niala Mohammad, a journalist for the government-funded news outlet Voice of America, and her friend, who works for the federal government and did not want to be named, were travelling on an American Airlines flight from Miami to Washington when they were asked to disembark the plane.

A new policy platform from a coalition of activists signals a new stage in the protest movement.

In the aftermath of the Civil War, devotees of the Lost Cause wanted to take back America, and proceeded to slaughter African Americans. By Calvin Schermerhorn.

Roberts remains at the center of an impassioned debate about voting rights in America. By Ari Berman.

It’s known as a modern-day hub of progressivism. but its past is one of exclusion. By Alana Semuels. (July 22, 2016)

A federal court hands down a damning indictment of North Carolina’s law. By Christopher Ingraham.

With the dropped charges in Baltimore, America is edging closer to telling people like me that the eye of justice isn’t blind but jaundiced. By Charles M. Blow.

The marathon party gathering featured fist fights, a Klan rally, and 103 ballots. By Jake Offenhartz. (July 26, 2016)

Systemic prejudice always takes a toll, whether it be by bullet or by blood clot. By Clint Smith.

Texas’ voter identification law violates the U.S. law prohibiting racial discrimination in elections, a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday. By Jim Malewitz.

Federal election observers can only be sent to five states in this year’s U.S. presidential election, among the smallest deployments since the Voting Rights Act was passed in 1965 to end racial discrimination at the ballot box.

From income to incarceration, racism is everywhere.

Renowned astrophysicist recounts “a dozen” incidents with police. Neil deGrasse Tyson may be one of the most celebrated scientists of our time, but that doesn’t make him immune to racial profiling. On Tuesday, Tyson posted an excerpt from his 2004 book “The Sky Is Not the Limit: Adventures of an Urban Astrophysicist” on Facebook, in which he and several colleagues at a 1991 National Society of Black Physicists conference recounted times they had been detained by police without reason.

Malaga Island was home to a fishing community. But in 1911, a racist pseudoscience and greedy politicians changed all that. By David Jester.

“I wanted to prove that I could get away with brazen theft because of a status earned by a decade’€™s worth of positive assumptions about my ethnicity…” By A. Sandosharaj.

After William McDuff was killed, it took Dallas 50 years to replace him. By Erin Blakemore.

"We are not anti police. We are anti-our-people-being-murdered-in-the-streets."

The response, a devastating takedown from the prof, is a tiny masterclass in legal thinking, persuasive writing, and the nature and character of a legal education.

A Louisiana plantation that is an emotionally devastating museum of slavery. By Rod Dreher.

Many Brexiteers built their campaign on optimism. Outside the European Union, Britain would be free to open up to the world. But what secured their victory was anger. Anger stirred up a winning turnout in the depressed, down-at-heel cities of England (see article). Anger at immigration, globalisation, social liberalism and even feminism, polling shows, translated into a vote to reject the EU. As if victory were a licence to spread hatred, anger has since lashed Britain’s streets with an outburst of racist abuse.