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Southerners, politicians are using gendered rhetoric. We talked about the white demagogues and how sexuality and race were used to create support. We talked about the myth of the black rapist. The idea that white women were passive and virtuous, outside of the maledominated political sphere, the rape of white women was seen as an assault on white honor. We sat through all of birth of a nation. That includes the classic trope. We looked at the mythology of reconstruction. There is the scene where the white daughter of the southern family is stocked by gus, the former Union Soldier and black cri...

Some of the old stereotypes about the cold war contest between the United States and russia and ive encouraged mr. Putin to think forward as opposed to backwards on those issues, with mixed success. That was president obama yesterday during a press conference at the white house, capping off a week where the news has been all about u. S. russian relations. On wednesday, the president announced that he would skip a planned oneonone meeting with russian president Vladimir Putin. That was scheduled for next month. But the white house said that there has not been enough progress on major issues lik...

Ida B. Wells-Barnett, American journalist who led an anti-lynching crusade in the United States in the 1890s. She later was active in promoting justice for African Americans and founded (1910) what was possibly the first Black women’s suffrage group, Chicago’s Alpha Suffrage Club.

OPINION: It is possible to mourn the victims of Hamas violence and support the rights of the Palestinian people. Silencing those voices is a tool of oppression

I write this brief essay with two goals in mind. First, I want to extend a warm welcome to the National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA) to its annual convention in