By Lee A. Daniels
“Niggerhead” was far from being the only place in Texas or many other states in the South and North that whites felt driven to dishonor with slurs against black Americans. What that compulsion signified – how profoundly saturated with anti-black racism America was – is the point that stands at the center of this controversy.

By The Editors
For the last decade or so, we’ve been treated to a concentrated dose of one of the grand traditions of American history: the assertion that U.S.-born black Americans are last on the pecking order of American ethnic groups who “contribute” to American society.

By Lee A. Daniels
Warning to all who intend to follow the 2012 presidential election: better have a sturdy pair of hip waders handy, because the muck right-wing extremists and fellow-travelers have been shoveling out of the cesspool of American society into the respectable political discourse since President Obama took office is likely to become a deluge.

By Lee A. Daniels
The first thing I noticed yesterday when I went searching on amazon.com for the books written by Frank Borzellieri, who has gained a certain notoriety in New York City in the last week, is that all three of them have a photograph of him on the cover.

By Lee A. Daniels
Imagine, in the heart of Dixie, once the land of cotton, where, to some whites, the old times of white-over-black dominion are not only not forgotten but wistfully remembered, there’s a park that’s a memorial to treason.

By Lee A. Daniels
Given the fresh proof that the woeful neglect of American history in the schools has helped produce an astonishing ignorance of basic details of American history, it’s clearly foolish to expect that many today would recognize the name of Richard H. Poff.

By Lee A. Daniels
The story of the Virginia scholarships, to some degree, and, even more directly, of the state of Oklahoma’s refusal to properly compensate the Tulsa black community for Greenwood’s destruction casts into sharp relief the harm the post-Civil War century of legalized racism did to the ability of black American individuals, families and communities to gain and hold a solid economic footing in American society.

By Kenneth J. Cooper
Anyone who cites the election of Barack Obama as proof the country has gotten beyond race should consider what Yale University researchers discovered in a new study that shows discrimination persists in political representation.

By Lee A. Daniels and Stacey Patton
Another day. Another outrageous example of how deeply the election of a black American of mixed parentage has unhinged some conservative white Americans.

By Kenneth J. Cooper
The Supreme Court figured it had done the right thing when it decided a decade ago that defendants accused of capital crimes could only be sentenced to death by a jury, not a judge. Did the seven justices in the majority know that death-by-jury is tainted with racism at its core? Or maybe they didn’t care.