A minority may be right and a majority is always wrong.
Those who benefit from unearned privilege are too often quick to discount those who don't.
The thing is we never needed anyone's consent to get married. What is happening is that the established powers are starting realize how much of jack asses they have looked like for not acknowledging o...
Since childhood, I’d believed it was important to speak out against bullies while also not stooping to their level. And to be clear, we were now up against a bully, a man who among other things demean...
Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection - they have many friends and few enemies.
When you're marginalized, there are no "them people," if we're all on the outskirts of the same margin.
In addition, when a neighborhood's crime victims are portrayed as victims-sympathetically and without blame, as humans rather than as statistics-people living in other parts of the city are more incli...
If large numbers of people believe in freedom of speech, there will be freedom of speech, even if the law forbids it. But if public opinion is sluggish, inconvenient minorities will be persecuted, eve...
Criminologists have documented that the amount of coverage a crime victim receives affects how much attention police devote to the case and the willingness of prosecutors to accept plea bargains.
In most black people, there is a South Side, a sense of home, that never leaves, and yet to compete in the world, we have to go forth. So we learn to code-switch and become bilingual. We save our Timb...
A minority group has 'arrived' only when it has the right to produce some fools and scoundrels without the entire group paying for it.