In The Unseen Truth, Sarah Lewis examines how an erroneous 18th-century story about the “Caucasian race” led to a centuries of prejudice and misapprehension. Mikhail Lermontov’s Memory of Caucasus, ...

A Chicago police officer is suing the city to change his race on his official records after the department said it would allow officers to freely change their gender to match their identity. Mohammad ...

Our nation has, almost from its inception, had to deal with racial issues. In fact, race is the most visible social division in the United States—and unlike what many believe—such dissonance is not ...

OPINION: The growing Christian nationalist Redoubt movement is just the latest example in a long history of plans to make America white again. It just multiplies. Luckily, theGrio is here to help. To ...

Think this should be allowed? A member of the Chicago Police Department has filed a lawsuit against the city to officially change his race on record following the department’s decision to allow ...

Donald Trump has used racism, xenophobia, and white Christian nationalism as the cornerstones of his relentless and divisive march to the White House. He has played off and extended people’s fears of ...

Some real estate developers and others selling property in Northern Virginia from 1900 through the 1960s used race-based, restrictive covenants to maintain segregation, and Virginia’s state and local ...

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