Currently, 18 states ban trans girls from participating in girls’ sports. Often framed as offering “fairness” or “protection,” these insidious laws actually harm all women.
Republicans have truth-telling teachers in their crosshairs as part of a renewed campaign to whitewash U.S. history
White Americans must disavow, relinquish, dismantle, and divest from white supremacy at an individual and institutional level.
This attack, like almost all mass shootings, was perpetrated by a man.
Higginbotham has covered topics including death, sex, and divorce. Recently, she told the FBomb about her newest book, Not My Idea, which tackles racism and white privilege, and is available now.
The new lynching memorial and museum in Montgomery, Alabama, model a powerfully inclusive approach to history.
No, Donald Trump is not Adolph Hitler.
That this horrific idea exists, floating in our collective ethos and demanding a refutation is shocking. But this is where we are, and the failure to address the horror only means a greater evil is sure to come.
In November 2016, a scholar named Sebastian Schutte—a Marie Curie fellow at the Zukunftskolleg and the Department of Politics and Public Administration at the University of Konstanz in Germany—wrote an interesting article in The Washington Post. In it he argued that Trump had not reached Hitlerian heights. Not yet.