African Americans Are Three Times More Likely to Be Killed by Police
One more dive into the statistics on race and police killings. By Nathan Collins (Photo: Yana Paskova/Getty Images)…
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A Conversation With the Researcher Behind the Latest Study on Racial Disparities in Police Killings
Pacific Standard spoke with James Buehler about his research, which shows black and Hispanic men are indeed more…
How to Achieve an ‘Anti-Racist’ America
A conversation with National Book Award-winner Ibram X. Kendi. By Corey Atad Students pray in the aftermath of…
The Earnings Gap Between Black and White Men Is Back at Its 1950 Level
New research suggests African Americans have been hit particularly hard by the lack of jobs for less-educated workers.…
The Implicit Racism in Magazines
There’s an underlying bias against people of color in national magazines aimed at a female readership. By Tom…
Shelf Help: ‘Black Elephants in the Room: The Unexpected Politics of African American Republicans’
Taking the measure of non-celebrity black Republicans, who find themselves a single-digit minority within both party and race.…
Why Black Lives Matter Protestors Are Turning to Teaching
What’s behind the affinity between educators and the movement premised on black liberation? Activists say the classroom offers…
Racism, Xenophobia, and Trump’s Win
A political scientist offers some preliminary thoughts on why the election results surprised pretty much everyone.
Facebook Is Letting Advertisers Exclude Users by Race
Facebook’s system allows advertisers to exclude black, Hispanic, and other “ethnic affinities” from seeing ads. By Julia Angwin…
From the Mouths of Children: ‘Only White People’
On a playground, the messy birth of a five-year-old’s “otherness.” By Topher Sanders (Photo: Chris Hondros/Getty Images) Few…