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Byline: Karina Elwood Virginia's education department proposed dozens of revisions to an elective course on African American history, striking some references to white supremacy and systemic racism among other changes, [...]

Byline: Becca Rothfeld Is racism a social blight or a personal defect? Amid the frictions of recent years, slick thinkers like Robin DiAngelo have proposed, often in the same breath, [...]

Byline: Karen Attiah After years of trafficking in bigotry, Kanye West has finally been kan-celed. But at second glance, the consequences for West might be less a victory for social [...]

Byline: Jennifer Rubin It has long been understood that the MAGA movement is heavily dependent on White grievance and straight-up racism. (Hence Donald Trump's refusal to disavow racist groups and [...]

Byline: Julio Ricardo Varela The release of the video showing Virginia police officer Joe Gutierrez harassing, threatening and pepper-spraying Caron Nazario, a Black and Latino Army second lieutenant, has offered [...]

Byline: Peniel E. Joseph About US is an initiative by The Washington Post to explore issues of identity in the United States. Sign up for the newsletter. The mass shooting [...]

Byline: Jennifer Rubin By the time we reached the late-night hour on Wednesday, network comedians such as Trevor Noah and Stephen Colbert expressed what so many in the mainstream media [...]

Byline: Joe Davidson When talking about her work leading President Biden's racial equity initiative, Susan Rice can be funny but is always focused. Just a week or so into his [...]

Byline: Corrie Decker;Elisabeth McMahon As they struggled to make sense of the attempted insurrection at the Capitol on Jan. 6, observers embraced two strands of history to help contextualize them: [...]

Byline: Toluse Olorunnipa;Cleve R. Wootson Jr. President Trump refused to condemn white supremacists and armed militia members Tuesday during a bellicose debate in which racism emerged as one of the [...]

Byline: Ian Shapira Her whole life, Dorenda Johnson has endured racism in Charlottesville. Growing up in a city built with the help of enslaved people, she attended integrated schools but [...]

Byline: Ian Shapira Her whole life, Dorenda Johnson has endured racism in Charlottesville. Growing up in a city built with the help of enslaved people, she attended integrated schools but [...]

Byline: Jacob Bogage;Eugene Scott Avowed white supremacist David Duke was permanently banned from Twitter for repeated violations of the social media platform's rules on hate speech. The former Ku Klux [...]

Byline: Rebecca Senior Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee and Thomas Jonathan 'Stonewall' Jackson are just a few of the notorious Confederate leaders whose monuments have been destroyed, removed or targeted [...]

Byline: Anne Gearan President Trump promoted a video Sunday that includes a Trump supporter shouting 'white power' at counterprotesters, calling his supporters at the Florida retirement community where the demonstration [...]

Byline: Matthew F. Delmont As nationwide protests against police violence spread into their second week, thousands of companies, universities, professional sports teams and political leaders have issued statements voicing their [...]

Byline: John Wagner;Felicia Sonmez President Trump urged the nation Monday to condemn bigotry and white supremacy after a pair of mass shootings and focused on combating mental illness over new [...]

Byline: Philip Kennicott CHADDS FORD, Pa. -- Scroll through the comments section on white nationalist websites, and you find more than a few efforts to put a happy, nonthreatening face [...]

Byline: WashPostPR Announcement from Local Editor Mike Semel, Deputy Local Editor Monica Norton and Local Assignment Editor Sydney Trent: We are proud to announce that Terrence McCoy has won the [...]

Byline: Tracy Jan The neo-Nazis were hungry. They had spent the day in a Charlottesville, Va., courthouse testifying at the preliminary hearing for a white nationalist jailed for pepper-spraying counterprotesters [...]

Byline: Valerie Strauss A year has passed since police and Virginia state troopers allowed white supremacists and neo-Nazis to march in Charlottesville and then clash in the streets with anti-hate [...]

Byline: Terrence McCoy CHARLOTTESVILLE -- Confusion over an extraordinary police presence on the anniversary of a violent and deadly white nationalist rally turned into anger Saturday night as hundreds of [...]

Byline: Ian Shapira CHARLOTTESVILLE Çö Elmer Woodáard was in no mood for concessions. The mutton-chopped Virginia defense lawyer, a onetime Civil War reenactor who has become the legal face of [...]

Byline: Susan Svrluga When a University of Virginia alumnus read aloud from his Bible on the steps of the school's Rotunda this week, university police came to silence him. A [...]

Byline: Eli Rosenberg Newspapers typically work to point out society's ills, publishing both expository reporting and sharply worded editorials to spotlight problems in the world, and hopefully effect change. But [...]

Byline: Terrence McCoy The mother and son were sitting in the living room, arguing about Ellen DeGeneres again. 'She definitely helps push the degeneracy. Didn't she have that cross-dressing little [...]

Byline: Terrence McCoy;Kazi Awal The mother and son were sitting in the living room, arguing about Ellen DeGeneres again. 'She definitely helps push the degeneracy. Didn't she have that cross-dressing [...]

Byline: John Woodrow Cox It had been a week since the road sign had gone up near the entrance of their 116-acre farm in Northern Virginia, and the furious emails, [...]

Byline: Callum Borchers President Trump's spokeswoman said in September that it was a 'fireable offense' for ESPN's Jemele Hill to call Trump a white supremacist. Hill didn't lose her job [...]

Byline: Cindy Boren ESPN's Stephen A. Smith has a little advice for his on-air colleague, Jemele Hill. It isn't quite 'stick to sports' when it comes to wading into political [...]

Byline: Philip Bump The word 'normal' appears repeatedly in the New York Times profile of Tony Hovater, a member of the 'alt-right' from Ohio who espouses an all-white America and [...]

Byline: Janell Ross Posters proclaiming 'IT'S OKAY TO BE WHITE' have been appearing on college campuses and on city streets across the country this week, prompted by an anonymous chat-room [...]

Byline: Osamudia James Blackface is as predictable around Halloween as candy, and by now the outrage in response is also pretty predictable. Julianne Hough was still apologizing two years after [...]

Byline: Susan Svrluga The University of Florida said Thursday it is reluctantly agreeing to allow Richard Spencer to speak on campus this month, the white nationalist's first college event since [...]

Byline: Emma Brown Nearly a week after white nationalists and neo-Nazis held a torchlight march through the University of Virginia campus, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos on Thursday decried their views [...]

Byline: Arelis R. Hernández;Clarence Williams Hundreds of people marched with lit candles across the University of Virginia campus Wednesday night in a contrasting demonstration from the torch-lit white nationalist parade [...]

Byline: Eugene Volokh The three California ACLU chapters put out a joint ACLU of California Statement: White Supremacist Violence is Not Free Speech: This seems like an odd statement, especially [...]

Byline: Karen L. Cox The rally by white nationalists to defend the monument to Robert E. Lee in Charlottesville last weekend, and the destruction of a monument to Confederate soldiers [...]