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The article explores the rise of Donald Trump from a figure of ridicule in the late 1980s to a dominant force in American politics, tracing his roots to an era of political and social upheaval. Topics include the early prominence of David Duke; the broader context of the early 1990s, which saw the decline of Reagan-era optimism and the emergence of fringe political elements; and the parallels between the current political climate and the transformative 1970s.

Examines the racial conflict within the newsroom of "The Washington Post" which serves as an important case study in the mechanics of affirmative action. Action taken by the newspaper industry in support of compensatory or preferential minority hiring; Impact of the commitment of the newspaper to affirmative action on its traditional reputation; Complaints raised by African American reporters against the newsroom culture of the newspaper; Disadvantages of the political pressure to promote minorities.

The article focuses on the anti-democracy and anti-equality views of the right-wing think tank Claremont Institute. Topics discussed are role of Claremont Institute in the evolution of the right-wing toward authoritarianism and extremism, redefinition of national identity and rise of the woke elite, platform provided by Claremont Institute for white nationalists and racist theorists, and intellectual origin story of the Claremont Institute that started with Harry Victor Jaffa and Leo Strauss.

Discusses the growth of social culture from the 1930's until the 1970s in Orange county, California. Observation of the growth of a social environment which encourages openness and tolerance for individual differences including race, religion and politics; Difference in the level of awareness regarding world events; Concern over the perception of values due to the spread of drug and marijuana use among the youth; Evidence of the radicalization of college campuses centering initially on the Vietnam war; Growth of the number of underground papers in several schools publishing radical ideas.

The article discusses the legacy of former African American slave and political organizer Frederick Douglass and his influence to the fight for racial justice and other social problems in the U.S. in the 21st century like police brutality and racism. Also cited are Douglass' accomplishments, his use of photographs and powerful narratives to advance his causes, and his claim that the U.S. Constitution should be used to achieve emancipation.

The article discusses the reasons why the 2020 U.S. presidential election will be a referendum on the political leadership of President Donald Trump. Also cited are the possible effects of the coronavirus pandemic to the campaigns of Trump and his presumptive Democratic rival Joe Biden, the results of the Democratic and Republican primaries, and the possible impacts of issues like sexism and racial attitudes to the election.

Comments on key controversies pertaining to the ideologies and activities of the World Council of Churches citing its support for guerrilla organizations which make up the Patriotic Front of Zimbabwe under its Program to Combat Racism. Activities of the organization to prevent racism; Religious and political ideologies of the organization that led to its support of guerillas; Controversies over the financial grants given to guerillas without concern over how those guerillas use the funds; Emphasis on the moral responsibility of the group.

The article discusses the significance of socialism in U.S. politics as of June 2019. Topics include the relation of liberalism to democracy, the notion of resistance to U.S. President Donald Trump, and the relation of democratic socialism to U.S. economic and environmental policies. The relation of U.S. racism to debates about capitalism and socialism is noted.

The article focuses on the periodical "The New Republic" and its coverage of race throughout its publication. Topics include the liberalism and ideology expressed in the periodical's articles, the history of racism in the U.S., and the portrayal of black people in mass media. Information is provided on diversity in journalism.

Reports on several political and social developments around the world. Comments of U.S. President George Bush about White House staffer Ed Rogers' job offer, representing a Saudi national implicated in the BCCI scandal; Draft of a one-sentence resolution by the Israelis revoking the United Nations Resolution 3379 or the "Zion is racism" resolution; Speech given by U.S. presidential candidate Bill Clinton blaming George Bush for racial strife in the country.

The article discusses the downsides of race-reductive thinking in the quest for racial justice. Topics covered include the race-reductionist scholarship's constitutional failure to recognize change and the workings of historical processes, and its casual referencing of black American experience across space and time in the first-person plural.

In this article the author discusses Ron Paul, a candidate for the Republican party nomination for president in the 2008 election. In the piece the author examines racist, homophobic and pro-Confederacy views espoused in newsletters published by Paul. The author disputes Paul's contention that he is a libertarian.

The article discusses the issue of racism in the U.S. during disasters like the COVID-19 pandemic. Also cited are the effects of the coronavirus to white Americans, how African Americans are allegedly discriminated during disasters, and the signs of inequalities in the country, including the higher rate of infection of majority-African American counties than majority-white counties.

Focuses on role of Black Entertainment Television Inc. (BET) founder Robert Johnson in the public debate; Johnson's view that a repeal of the tax would help narrow the gap between African American families and White families; Perceptions from African Americans of the BET channel; Report on Johnson presenting himself as the very opposite of a shrewd manipulator of racial politics; Information on Johnson demonstrating his ability as a businessmen in 1979, when, as a cable TV lobbyist, he came up with the one true innovation in his business career; Emphasis of BET channel exclusively on music videos; Focus on dual personality of Johnson in relation to African American community; Plans of Johnson in 1994 to buy NBA franchise, the Bullets of Washington; Failure of the plan; Focus on a statement by Johnson, where he says that blacks, on average, die younger than whites; Comparison of ideology of U.S. President George W. Bush and that of Johnson.

Discusses how the prison experiences of John William King and Lawrence Russell Brewer, convicted of murdering James Byrd in Jasper, Texas, contributed to their crime. Description of the prison hierarchy; Membership of King and Brewer in the Confederate Knights in prison; Report on how King and Brewer brought their racism home with them after being released in 1997.

Presents information on politics and government in the U.S. Information on the attitude of U.S. President Ronald Reagan toward racism; Explanation given by President Reagan for the segregation of schools in the U.S.; Comments on the works of missionaries in the U.S.; Discussion of the Chadha case before the U.S. Supreme Court; Information on an obstacle to deregulation in the Interior Department.

Highlights the modification of the employee diversity program at Texaco as of February 1998. Content of the tape recordings of Texaco executives using racial slurs; Details of the class action discrimination suit filed against the company in 1996; Measures taken by the company to revamp its employee diversity program.

Focuses on the situation of race-relation in the U.S. Instances of racial conflicts; Emphasis on the need for integration of neighborhoods; Discussion on the federal measures so far taken to fill the gulf between races; Poverty among blacks in the U.S.; Opinion that blacks and whites alike must lay aside their claims of victimization and take up the struggle to eliminate the legacy of racism.

Focuses on domestic terrorism against Arab Americans in the U.S. Role of militant Jewish extremists and a variety of racists and xenophobes on the attacks against Arab Americans; Lack of evidence to link Arabs to terrorist attacks in the U.S.; Views of director of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation William Webster on the acts of terrorism.

Discusses the preferential treatment for blacks among white elites in the United States. Author's argument that preferential treatment of blacks was immoral; Classic behavioral symptom of racism; Characteristics of racists; Businessmen's expectation that a black colleague will not read a balance sheet as subtly as they do; History of affirmative action; Changes in affirmative action; Simplest way to withstand an accusation of violating Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

Comments on several political issues in the U.S. as of October 1966. Remarks on the prevalence of racism in the political sector of the country; Criticisms on the political trips of President Lyndon Johnson; Overview of an article by Irving Dilliard which projected the results of election in 1942.

Presents comments of readers on various soico-political and cultural topics in the U.S. Views of W.A. Williams of Madison, Wisconsin on the film "The Beginning or the End"; Comment on the eviction of an American Indian woman from a "white" neighborhood; Views of C.B. Warner of Biloxi, Mississippi on the formation of New Deal Club, with a membership of 5,000 and the support of 90 percent of the local officials.

Focuses on Americans peddling anti-Semitism to the ignorant. Exercise of Anti-Semitism at various levels in the community; Unspoken hostility to the Jews; Anti-Semitism in the middle class; Solicitation of funds to carry Anti-Semitic crusades; Demand of the Ku Klux Klan for Nordic Protestant supremacy and hostility to the Roman Catholic Church; Charges against fundamentalist preacher Gerald B. Winrod; Anti-minority prejudice of newspaper columnist Westbrook Pegler.

Presents information on various political developments in several countries. Resolution adopted at the meeting of the Assembly of the League of Nations, which calls for the action of the League to settle international disputes by arbitral methods; Role of the system of alliances of France in securing virtual hegemony over the continent of Europe; Election of Ralph O. Brewster, pro-Ku Klux Klan Republican candidate, as Governor of Maine by about 35,000 votes over William R. Pattangall, his Democratic opponent; Intention of Senator Robert La Follette to make the grip of private monopoly a central issue in his campaign; Assault of U.S. President Calvin Coolidge at Baltimore upon the proposal that the U.S. Congress should have the power to override Supreme Court decisions.

Presents information on political issues around the world with emphasis on political and social issues pertaining to the U.S. Comment on the leadership qualities of U.S. President Warren Harding; Negotiation of the claims of the holders of Mexican bonds for the principal and defaulted interest by the American bankers; Estimation that twenty percent of the working population of Great Britain is unemployed and living by doles costing the British nation five hundred million dollars annually; Opposition of France' project of establishing a common policy toward the Soviet Union on the part of the nations to be represented at the Hague; Observation of the race prejudice at Harvard University; Information on president of Harvard A. Lawrence's letter in regard to the limitation of the number of Jews; Conditions of lawlessness approaching in Chicago; Discussion of the case at Waukegan where the governor of Illinois is being tried for embezzlement while treasurer of the state; Opinion of Admiral William Sowden Sims on gas warfare; Announcement of three new directors by the Standard Oil Co.; Definition of the precise function of the Washington dispatches purporting to elucidate the policies of the State Department.

Discusses the problem of segregation in the ghetto schools, said to be the very core of the race problem in the U.S., as of July 1967. Discussion on the decision of Judge James Skelly Wright concerning the school system of the District of Columbia; Proposal of the Civil Rights Commission report, Racial Isolation in the Public Schools, for securing desegregation in schools; Illustration of the socio-economic problems faced by African American high school students and graduates.

Presents the views of the author on the discord between whites and African American citizens in the U.S., magnified by the murder of African American James Byrd Jr. in 1998. Media hype surrounding a rally opposing hate crimes in Jasper, Texas; Reason of the Ku Klux Klan for participating in the rally; Preparations made by African Americans to protect themselves from possible violence in the rally;

Comments on the debate over racism at the Yale Law School campus which demonstrated how difficult it has become for students to distinguish between imagined racism and actual racism. Controversy involving a law student who was raped off campus by two black men; Racist letters sent by the classmates of the raped law student to black students at Yale Law School; Tension caused by an ad hoc group of Yale graduate students calling themselves the Committee for Diversity which demanded a day-long boycott of law school classes to protest the racist attitudes of law school students.

Comments on race relations at the City College of New York (CCNY). Percentage of migrant students in the campus; Profile of the students at CCNY; Incidents of racial conflicts in the campus; Decision of CCNY to adopt an open enrollment policy; Students' account of racial hostility in the school; Multiracial strengths of the City University; Controversy concerning the decision of the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools to defer Baruch College's reaccreditation.

Explains that misogyny and charges of white racism have become intertwined in the rhetoric of African American activists. Misogyny has been a trope in racially charged trials outside of New York; White man Charles Stuart managed to combine lethal violence against his pregnant wife with a calculated contempt for blacks; White racism and misogyny have not taken on the force of a movement for "social justice" led by clerics and community organizers.

Presents information on Louis Farrakhan, a prominent black politician in the U.S. Opinion that Farrakhan has figured out the secret of demagoguery; Information on the rise of Farrakhan as a prominent politician in the U.S.; Report that only a few months ago Farrakhan was the boss of a fringe Muslim sect with no more than 10,000 adherents nationwide; Information that politicians tried to isolate Farrakhan as a racist; Note on the animosity between Jewish liberals and black leaders in Washington D.C.; Views of Farrakhan on Jews; Criticism of Farrakhan's anti-Semitic attitude.

Focuses on the protest of several Afro-American students of the school Brown in Providence, Rhode Island, against a white student's assault on a black undergraduate that was perceived to be racially motivated. Accusation of the University as the center of institutional racism; Efforts of the school to attract minority students; List of demands issued by the protesting Afro-American students; Response from the school administration, which agreed to address some of the grievances; Reasons for the decline in minority faculty hiring by the school; Drawbacks in the educational curriculum of the school.

Focuses on Operation Moses, the Israeli military airlift of African Jews from Ethiopia. Lies about Zionism and the meaning of the Jewish state; Essence of the obligation to assist, and the essence of the national movement of the Jewish people; Jewish faith professed by Ethiopian natives and their social conditions; Political motivation behind the Israeli intervention; Plight of black Jews and racist tendencies in the Zionist religion.

Focuses on ins and outs of race certification. Need for collecting uniform racial and ethnic data in the federal system; Instances of race certification which point to a major obstacle that may confront affirmative action plans; Deference of the U.S. government to statistics; Plans of the government to start programs to find a place in the minority community.

Comments on the state of race discrimination in Washington, D.C. Research on the issue conducted by the District of Columbia by the National Committee on Segregation in the Nation's Capital; Composition of the committee which includes Eleanor Roosevelt, Raymond Swing, Walter White, and others; Some of the aspects of discrimination which do not extend to foreign Negroes; Discrimination in regard to food, lodging and entertainment; Anti-Negro attitude which forbids members of that race a decent job, a decent house, or equality of opportunity in education; Live expectancy of Negroes; Reasons given on why Negroes live in slums.

Highlights issues related to racism on the West Coast. Information on the West Coast's campaign to prevent the release of any persons of Japanese ancestry from relocation centers for the duration of the Second World War; Protests made by the American legion in Portland, Oregon when local citizens sought to provide some volunteer care for a Japanese cemetery; Attitude of the newspapers in California towards a riot at Tule Lake; Deflection of hatred of Japan against evacuees by a section of the West Coast press; Situation of the military in the Pacific.

Focuses on the Zoot Suit riots in Los Angeles, California. Minorities such as Mexican Americans and African American as victims of the riots; Atrocities on victims of riots; Attribution of the immediate responsibility for the outbreak of the riots upon the Los Angeles press and the Los Angeles police; Coinage of the term zoot-suiters for Mexican Americans; Misleading report to the Grand Jury which states that Mexicans are biologically predisposed toward criminal behavior; Version of the riots adopted by the major newspapers that soldiers and sailors acted in self-defense and there was no element of race prejudice involved; View that not only should there be a full federal investigation, particularly of the charges made by the Mexican consul and other individuals and groups, but there are additional avenues of inquiry that should be explored; Opening of an office in Los Angeles by the coordinator of the U.S. Inter-American Affairs; Arrangement made by the coordinator with the U.S. State Department.

Presents information regarding the Work or Fight Order of Provost Marshal General Crowder targeted against the colored people of the south U.S. Provision of the order that every able-bodied male person between the draft ages, must be engaged in some necessary employment; Amendment in selective service act to include males up to forty-five years of age; Information that Cities and towns and rural communities passed compulsory labor ordinances and by this means met with partial success in keeping the population at its former work and sometimes at pre-war low wages.

Focuses on the social and economic conditions of African Americans. Comments of George S. Schuyler, on the problem of racism; Feature of American life that has caused the manifestation of an African American group consciousness and provided the economic basis for a feeling of solidarity among its members; Causes of the lack of employment of Negroes in defense industry; Efforts to mollify the natural resentment of African Americans; Feelings among African Americans that the American people should expend some of their crusading zeal within the borders of the U.S.

Focuses on the commercial television broadcasting in the U.S. Failure of the television and other mass media to report adequately on race relations and ghetto problems; Effort of the media to ignore the conditions of living in the ghetto and the difficulties and frustrations of being an African American; Plans of the CBS Broadcasting Inc. to make six documentaries under the title "Of Black America"; Opinion that the only way television can be used to communicate with the African Americans is to have them do it themselves.

The article focuses on race in comedy in 2015. Topics include the popularity of the blog Stuff White People Like, white-on-white racial humor, and racism in the U.S. in 2015. Information is provided on self-awareness, the history of blackface and whiteface, and the evolution of comedy in the U.S. throughout history.

Contends that conservatives and the leadership of the Republican Party are not serious in promoting racial integration and racial sensitivity as shown by their inaction against the racist record of U.S. Senator Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III (R-Ala.). Sessions' role in persecuting African American voters in Alabama; Sessions accusation against the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and the American Civil Liberties Union un-American as being communist-inspired; Racist behavior of Sessions described by former assistant U.S. Attorney Thomas Figures; Importance for Sessions to make amends his past racial insensitivity.

Presents news briefs related to sociopolitical developments. Information about U.S. First Lady Hillary Clinton's election campaign for the New York Senate; Criticism of Republican presidential candidate George W. Bush's proposed tax cut; Concerns related to racism against the Taiwanese people in the U.S.; Information about the massacre of students at the Upper Elementary School in Plainsboro, New Jersey.

Comments on various political and social developments in the United States. Information on a trial of rap group 2 Live Crew, in which the group was acquitted of charges of obscenity; Drawbacks of the President George W. Bush's veto of the 1990 Civil Rights Act; Details of an annual meeting of the Aspin Procurement Institute; Information on the activities of an organization called Irish Task Force which is countering the racism inherent in calling people "white"; Publication of an article in the periodical "The Nation" which comments on Liberals; Condition given by attorney William Kunstler to a journalist who wanted to profile him.

Focuses on the issue of racism in the universities and colleges of the United States. Statement that black students have currently been experiencing more racial hostility than they have for a decade; Comment on features of the Civil Rights Act; Expulsion of Julius Lester, a member of the African American Studies department of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts.

Focuses on the policy of U.S. President Ronald Reagan toward the African Americans. Statement made by Reagan refuting the racism charges against African Americans; Refusal made by Reagan to the invitation by the Martin Luther King Center to speak on Martin Luther King's Birthday; Argument that any Republican president is bound to be somewhat divisive, since African Americans are overwhelmingly Democratic; Indifference of Reagan to the civil rights issues of the African Americans; Support extended by George Lucas, a black minister of Petersburg, Virginia, to Reagan.

Explains solutions to immigration issues in the United States proposed by Senator Alan Simpson and Representative Romano Mazzoli in their bill. Campaigns by special interest groups against the perceptions of racist and xenophobic elements of existing immigration policies; Urgency of addressing the growing problem of illegal immigration; Fear that the bill's offer of amnesty for illegals who already live here would reward lawbreakers and encourage further illegal immigration; Increase in the threat of job displacement and general lawlessness due to illegal immigration; Suggestion for passing a law turning illegal aliens into guest workers.

Reflects upon the factors contributing to the flaring up of racial confrontation throughout the U.S. Allegation that U.S. President Ronald Reagan as a candidate appealed now and again to white racism; Argument that President has virtually abandoned the enforcement of civil rights laws; Assertion that for Afro-Americans, Democrats, and all others who value a unified society, the appropriate targets of outrage are the U.S. government, racial discrimination, denial of opportunity, and economic contraction.

Explains that anti-Semitism is on the decline in the United States according to every available measure, while growing numbers of Jews believe American anti-semitism is rising to crisis proportions. Discrimination in housing, employment, and education; State-sponsored anti-Semitism; Hostility toward Jews as measured by public opinion polls; Rise of anti-Semitic incidents that include graffiti, arson and assault; Increased anxiety among Jews; Theory about a post-Holocaust stress syndrome that makes the Holocaust loom larger in memory as it fades into history.

Discusses the campaign to save the Child Development Group of Mississippi (CDGM), a combination Head Start preschool system and community action program, from politics, parsimony, racism and bureaucracy. Concern shown by the Office of Economic Opportunity regarding the efforts of CDGM to involve the poor; State politicians who want to control the rate of speed at which African Americans attain political power through CDGM; Governmental investigation of the accounts and operations of CDGM; Problems encountered by CDGM regarding grants and funding.