racism

For long scenes in “Night Fight,” a film by Tufts University faculty member Khary Saeed Jones, a car drives along a quiet, wooded road at night. The viewer is situated inside the car and silence envelopes the scene. At times we see Jones in the driver’s seat. At others there is only the road.

This winter, I felt paralyzed, not by cold, but by an inescapable sense of terror and grief. Wildfires devoured neighborhoods in my hometown of Los Angeles, displacing friends and family members. The Trump administration’s dismantling of DEI programs and its assault on Black America intensified.

Frederick Douglas is dead.  In 2017, President Donald J. Trump didn’t appear to know this fact. However, in 2025, he may still not know.

Young adult Black Americans may develop coping mechanisms to handle perceived discrimination, which may cushion the psychological effects of such experiences, a study by Duke University researchers found.

As we look back in time to evaluate how our society treated Black and brown military men and scientists in the 1960s, it is not surprising to hear the many stories of discrimination and obstacles to career advancement caused by racial bias.

In recent weeks, school administrators, police and the local district attorney have investigated a mock slave auction held by Southwick Regional School students on Snapchat in the western Massachusetts town.

When people hear “martial arts,” they mostly think of Bruce Lee, the legendary martial artist who became an international star of the silver screen.

“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.” James Baldwin shared these profound words as part of an essay published in 1962 for The New York Times. Having recently released Embrace Boston’s Harm Report, the resonance of Baldwin’s words in today’s context is striking.

On April 5, 1976, Theodore “Ted” Landsmark, a Black, New York-born lawyer living in Boston, was rushing to a meeting with a development agency to discuss how to create opportunities for minority construction workers. When the 29-year-old reached City Hall Plaza, he crossed paths with a rowdy group of antibusing demonstrators.

I was at Claudine Gay’s inauguration as Harvard’s 30th president. I saw her family waving Haitian flags. I stood between a college administrator from Japan, there to celebrate her, and two Stanford faculty who taught her. Literally, the world watched Gay at the apex of her career.

Two weeks after the Hamas attack in Israel, the shattered sense of safety felt by Jews around the world hasn’t gone away. It’s the same ever-present insecurity felt by many people of color in the United States — including Jews of color.

Anti-affirmative action activist Edward Blum and his fellow backward thinkers are at it again. An organization called the Equal Protection Project has filed a complaint with the U.S. Department of Education against the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, targeting its Black Public Media Residency.