What has integration gotten Black Americans? Not enough — but abandoning one another is unlikely to create freedom, ...

Racism in America did not emerge from ignorance or accident; it emerged from economics. Long before the republic had a name, ...

The assumption that Black people aren’t competent enough to manage their money has clouded discussions about closing the racial wealth gap.Rather than addressing the root causes of widespread poverty ...

He wanted lower rates and obedience. He got neither, and now he is lashing out at every institution that will not bend.

Beyond a shadow of a doubt, researchers have determined that Thomas Jefferson fathered the two sons of Sally Hemings, whose DNA was tested. A new wave of DNA research, published September 22, 2026, ...

Unchecked racism creates reasonable doubt in official reports. Add LEVEL on Google Black people found hanging from Southern trees is not a phenomenon confined to historical narratives. Indeed, at ...

Even children’s toys are not exempt from overt racism. Add LEVEL on Google A few months back, a disturbing viral trend escaped China and entered my internet feed. It had become popular to make videos ...

I grew up in Minneapolis, Minnesota, about 40 miles from Northfield, MN, which in 1876 was a small mining and college town. I’ve been to Carleton College in Northfield because the campus hosts a major ...

For the most part, I’ve experienced every microaggression imaginable and had to check well-meaning coworkers for years. I know how to navigate uncomfortable moments, from the minor and annoying to the ...

Twelve one‑vote rulings that show just how breakable American freedom has always been. Add LEVEL on Google American rights have never been sturdy things; they’ve often lived on the razor’s edge of a ...

Every era produces a certain kind of public figure who seems to fall straight through the floor — caught in crimes, scandals, fraud, or self‑inflicted ruin so complete that their disappearance from ...

I attended Super Bowl XXVI in Minneapolis on January 26, 1992, and saw Donald Trump with a woman and a few men in suits. They stood out because they were overdressed for a football game, and Donald ...