Far From Dixie, Outcry Grows Over a Wider Array of Monuments

By TRIP GABRIEL August 25, 2017 It began with calls to remove Confederate generals. But since the violence in Charlottesville, Va., two weeks ago, the anger from the left over monuments and public images deemed racist, insensitive or inappropriate has...

Democrats Search for a Response After Charlottesville Violence

On Thursday, Senator Chuck Schumer, the Democratic leader, called for the disbanding of President Trump’s “election integrity” panel, the latest response to racial violence.

Self-Fulfilling Prophecies: How Redlining’s Racist Effects Lasted for Decades

Self-Fulfilling Prophecies By EMILY BADGER August 24, 2017 The appraiser who went to Brooklyn in the 1930s to assess Bedford-Stuyvesant for the government summarized the neighborhood’s prospects on a single page. Many brownstones in “obsolescence...

Trump a ‘Moral Dilemma’ for Black Republicans After Charlottesville

By YAMICHE ALCINDOR August 22, 2017 WASHINGTON — Gregory Cheadle, the man whom Donald J. Trump famously called “my African-American” at a California campaign rally, watched this month as now-President Trump praised the “very fine...