Introduction
Demonstrators on Christmas Eve protest an alleged cover-up of a video showing a white Chicago police officer shooting 17-year-old African-American Laquan McDonald 16 times. The shooting — and others in which white police officers killed black suspects, often unarmed — has added fuel to a nationwide debate about systemic racism. (AP Photo/Rex Features)
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Race-centered conflicts in several U.S. cities have led to the strongest calls for policy reforms since the turbulent civil rights era of the 1960s. Propelled largely by videos of violent police confrontations with African-Americans, protesters have taken to the streets in Chicago, New York and other cities demanding changes in police tactics. Meanwhile, students — black and white — at several major universities have pressured school presidents to deal aggressively with racist incidents on campus. And activists in the emerging Black Lives Matter movement are charging that “institutional racism” persists in public institutions and laws a half century after legally sanctioned discrimination was banned. Critics of that view argue that moral failings in the black community — and not institutional racism — explain why many African-Americans lack parity with whites in such areas as wealth, employment, housing and educational attainment. But those who cite institutional racism say enormous socioeconomic gaps and entrenched housing and school segregation patterns stem from societal decisions that far outweigh individuals' life choices.
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Oct. 30, 2020 |
Systemic Racism |
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Aug. 23, 2019 |
Reparations for Slavery |
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May 12, 2017 |
Anti-Semitism |
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Mar. 17, 2017 |
‘Alt-Right’ Movement |
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Jan. 08, 2016 |
Racial Conflict |
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Sep. 18, 2015 |
Far-Right Extremism |
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Nov. 22, 2013 |
Racial Profiling |
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May 08, 2009 |
Hate Groups |
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Jun. 01, 2007 |
Shock Jocks  |
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Jan. 07, 1994 |
Racial Tensions in Schools |
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Jan. 08, 1993 |
Hate Crimes |
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May 12, 1989 |
The Growing Danger of Hate Groups |
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Nov. 05, 1969 |
American History: Reappraisal and Revision |
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Mar. 31, 1965 |
Extremist Movements in Race and Politics |
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May 13, 1964 |
Racism in America |
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Dec. 03, 1958 |
Spread of Terrorism and Hatemongering |
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Jul. 10, 1946 |
Ku Klux Klan |
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Jan. 09, 1945 |
Race Equality |
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Dec. 19, 1933 |
Lynching and Kidnapping |
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