Amy Murrell Taylor reviews Eugene D. Genovese's "The Sweetness of Life: Southern planters at home" edited by Douglas Ambrose.

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

Marvel’s first black superhero film Black Panther made a strong debut in China, taking in more than $63 million this weekend and helping it cross the billion-dollar mark globally. And while the film filled seats in China, it didn’t exactly bring in rave reviews from Chinese audiences—in fact, online reviews hint at subtle racism and discomfort with the all-black cast.

Can you be convicted of a killing if you were there when somebody else dealt the fatal blow? The law says so – especially if you’re young and black. By Harry Stopes.

An 18th-century creole slaveholder invented the idea of ‘racial prejudice’ to defend diversity among a slave-owning elite. By Blake Smith.

Guardian US and WNYC’s On the Media collaborated on a radio episode looking the coverage of neo-Nazis and white nationalists. By Lois Beckett.

In states like North Carolina, splitting up county-wide school systems often results in unequal access to resources separated down racial lines. By Barry Yeoman.

The gun control bills will get signed so fast your head will spin. The only greater certainty than another mass shooting in this country is the likelihood that it will be met with inaction. Since the 2012 massacre of 20 first-graders and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School, there have been a staggering 1,607 mass shootings across the U.S., nearly 240 in schools. By Kali Holloway.

New research finds the president's earliest and strongest followers embody a particularly belligerent strain of authoritarian thinking. Given the meteoric rise of Donald Trump, and the ill-defined phenomenon known as Trumpism, it's vital that we understand the psychology that attracted Americans to the real estate mogul in the first place. Research suggests such voters are driven by a combination of racial resentment and authoritarianism.

What's wrong with this picture. I was feeling remiss If I did not post this. I think it is a wrong direction. And maybe not.

A woman filed a lawsuit against Walmart claiming race discrimination for having to be escorted to a register to buy African-American beauty products that were locked in a case. Essie Grundy, who was joined by her husband, daughter and attorney Gloria Allred, talked about the suit during a press conference Friday. She shot cellphone video of the incident, describing what she found at the Walmart.

US President Donald Trump has sparked outrage after he was reported to have used crude language to describe foreign countries in an Oval Office meeting. Mr Trump said he did not say "anything derogatory" about Haitians and appeared to deny calling any countries "shitholes", as was reported, generating a worldwide backlash. However, Democratic Senator Dick Durbin said Mr Trump used "racist" language.

Austria’s president was forced to intervene yesterday after the first child to be born in the country in 2018 was subjected to a torrent of racist online abuse when it emerged the new-born's parents were Muslim. President Alexander Van der Bellen, a 73-year-old liberal green politician, pointedly issued his congratulations to the girl, who was named Asel after being born in the early hours of New Year’s Day in Vienna.

A 40-year-old Milwaukee man whose wrong-timed bathroom excuse on a Delta flight in April went viral after his eventual ejection was caught on cellphone...

Libertarianism is a political philosophy shot through with white supremacy. By Andrew Hartman.

While the policies of the party may be more progressive and black-friendly, the Democratic leadership is often as prejudiced and shortsighted as its Republican counterparts, and next week’s Senate election is the perfect example. By Michael Harriot.

Adam Hochschild reviews “The Second Coming of the KKK: The Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s and the American Political Tradition” by Linda Gordon and “Ku Klux Kulture: America and the Klan in the 1920s” by Felix Harcourt.

Donald Trump's supporters now have what they want: a president who embodies the rage they feel, while reassuring them that hatred is justifiable. By Adam Serwer.

I see a game that's haunted by ghosts; the specter of black culture, appropriated first by the minstrel set then by the Fleischers, Disney and others. By Yussef Cole.

How did Andrew Anglin go from being an antiracist vegan to the alt-right’s most vicious troll and propagandist—and how might he be stopped? By Luke O’Brien.