That Racial Profiling Incident at Nordstrom Rack Apparently Wasn’t a First
A Nordstrom Rack in Columbia, MarylandTripplaar Kristoffer/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Danielle Stubblefield, 42, stood outside a Nordstrom Rack store feeling frustrated, desperately hoping to prevent what she believed was an instance of racial profiling from escalating. The police had been called on several black teenagers who had entered the…
The Case for Building Public Housing That Doesn’t Suck—And Lots of It
Units in the Seestadt Aspern urban development zone in Vienna, Austria.Imago/Zuma Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Housing has been one of the single greatest vehicles for building wealth in the United States. Yet the ranks of Americans who can’t find affordable housing are swelling. Although the problem goes back decades, the collapse…
It Shouldn’t Have Taken Captain America and a Third-Grader to Make Me See White Privilege, But Here We Are
Chris Evans portrays Captain America in “Avengers: Infinity War”Marvel Studios Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Every few weeks, Mark would come and visit me. This was six years ago. I was working as a program manager at an outpatient psychiatric clinic in Manhattan’s East Village. His parents both worked at…
Leaked Audio Shows Just How Crazy That Meeting Between NFL Players and Owners Actually Was
Marcio Jose Sanchez/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The New York Times obtained audio of a tense three-hour meeting between NFL players and owners in October that sheds new light on how the two sides sought to deal with the fallout from ongoing national anthem protests—including President Donald Trump’s relentless criticism…
How Sally Kohn’s “The Opposite of Hate” Became a Referendum on White Privilege
Mother Jones illustration Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On April 10, progressive political commentator Sally Kohn released her first book The Opposite of Hate: A Field Guide to Repairing Our Humanity. I interviewed Kohn about what she learned from researching the origins and dynamics of hate, and particularly how she maintains…
Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith’s Portrait of America Is a Devastating Must-Read
Victoria Smith/eyevine/Redux Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Back in 2012, Princeton professor Tracy K. Smith won a Pulitzer Prize for the poetry collection Life on Mars. But her highest distinction came last year, when Smith, 46, was named US poet laureate. Wade in the Water, her latest book, deftly covers…