Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley’s failure to identify slavery as the primary cause of the Civil War has created a firestorm. But the press is missing an important issue when reporting on ...

Isabel Wilkerson returns to Boston College to speak of caste, at lecture co-sponsored by Winston Center “Caste is essentially an artificial, arbitrary, graded ranking of society. It is what determines ...

Vikki Velasquez is a researcher and writer who has managed, coordinated, and directed various community and nonprofit organizations. She has conducted in-depth research on social and economic issues ...

A University on the Edge of the Sahara Struggles to Become an Intellectual Oasis Saad Bou Kamara recalls becoming aware of the injustice around him. “I remember how astonished I was growing up to ...

There is a significant cohort of current Americans, who like their 19th Century Confederate forebearers, are preparing for civil war. While there are currently no Union or Confederate Armies forming ...

U.S. cities are deeply segregated, often with streets or highways separating higher-income predominantly White neighborhoods from lower-income predominantly Black ones. This is not an accident of ...

Why do people defend social systems that oppress them? Why do the marginalized sometimes work to uphold structures and arrangements that limit their potential? These questions are not just ...

The chief minister said people still had the "mindset of slavery" due to long years of "Mohammedan and British rule".

The Art of Living founder has put caste reconciliation on his public agenda. He organised the "Truth and Reconciliation" Conference in New Delhi to reconcile Dalits with upper caste Hindus and end ...