“This idea of purity and you’re never compromised  and you’re always politically woke  and all that stuff, you should get over that quickly.”

A Black man gets a reprieve from execution in the death of a white woman who may have been killed by her cop husband.

The nation’s oldest structural racial entitlement program is one of its most consequential: the Electoral College.

This week readers discuss Trump and Syria, Obama’s presidency, and the return of McCarthyism.  We share your letters for “

“Behaving, talking, and sounding too  black”—will never be separate from larger issues and questions of language and race.