The BLK Caucus

30/10/2017

The indictments are coming down. Read more of our Monday morning roundup, here:

By Staff

27/10/2017

"But to read [Bush's] speech as a courageous missive on the importance of returning to some glorious moment of justice and equality would be a mistake. After all, the only thing that outmatches the bravery of the speech is his endorsement of the identity-politics swinging Ed Gillespie, the Virginia GOP’s candidate in that state’s Gubernatorial race."

Ron Stubblefield's sharp analysis on how the GOP's "we are not the same as Trump" strategy on race is a sham.

By Ron Stubblefield

26/10/2017

"The discrediting of black women as victims or witnesses of anything is unfortunately a public idiom. Both Johnson and Wilson may be the most current expression but these moments are so daily in their occurrence that it almost feels like a tradition. Jemele Hill rightly identifies Trump with his white supremacist tendencies only for his army of enablers to call for her firing as if she had committed an act of malpractice. The president, who in the past has expressed a fe**sh for suing people who tell him off, must have unwittingly found some truth in the claim as he always attacks the messenger rather than the charge itself."

By Tara Tutson and Jared Loggins

10/08/2017

A significant number of Republicans would support flagrant violations of democratic norms.

10/08/2017

Facts: where did the love go when black and brown people were dying in the streets as a result of the crack epidemic?

Faced with a rising national wave of opioid addiction and its consequences, families, law enforcement and political leaders around the nation are linking arms to save souls. But 30 years ago, it was a different story. Ekow Yankah, a Cardozo School of Law professor, reflects on how race affects our n...

10/08/2017

It's getting hot in here. The sun's gonna burn all our clothes.

The report is the most comprehensive assessment of climate change released by the Trump administration.

10/08/2017

This administration is trying to dismantle public education, one way or another.

But civil rights advocates and Democrats worry she is 'diminishing' civil rights enforcement.

10/08/2017

Trump's pick for Chief Scientist at the Department of Agriculture once called Eric Holder a "racist black". Of course he did.

Sam Clovis, Donald Trump's pick to be chief scientist for the Department of Agriculture, pushed unfounded theories about then-President Barack Obama's upbringing and called then-Attorney General Eric Holder a "racist black," a CNN KFile review of Clovis's writings and radio broadcasts during 2012 an...

10/08/2017

It's not defamation if it's true.

The Breakfast Club controversy continues

10/08/2017

New York-based writer Reniqua Allen joins Here & Now's Robin Young to discuss the trend, and public perceptions of racism in the South.

08/08/2017

You know what they say: "can't beat 'em, rob 'em."

The government has switched sides in a case that’s headed to the Supreme Court.