In Monument Debate, Calls for an Overdue Reckoning on Race and Southern Identity

By CAMPBELL ROBERTSON, ALAN BLINDER and RICHARD FAUSSET August 18, 2017 EUFAULA, Ala. — The facts of Southern history, according to Brad Griffin, are beyond dispute. “It was a slave society,” he said. “They had white...

How Do Trump’s Black Friends Feel? It’s Complicated

As questions of racism increasingly dog the president, his past, from dating a biracial model to efforts to hang out publicly with African-American celebrities, paints a complex picture.

Charlottesville Violence Spurs New Resistance to Confederate Symbols

By NICHOLAS FANDOS, RICHARD FAUSSET and ALAN BLINDER August 16, 2017 BALTIMORE — It happened in the dead of night. Around midnight, as Tuesday turned into Wednesday, a crew of police officers and workers wielding a large crane began...

Far-Right Groups Blaze Into National View in Charlottesville

By RICHARD FAUSSET and ALAN FEUER August 13, 2017 It was a deadly weekend of rage-fueled street battles. And after the violent demonstrations in Charlottesville, Va., leaders of white nationalist groups claimed success. “It was a huge moral...