Over the past year, attacks on Asian Americans have increased more than 150% over the previous year, including the March 16 murders of eight people, including six Asian American women, in Atlanta. Some of these attacks may be classified as hate crimes. But whether they meet that legal definition or not, they all fit a long history of viewing Asian Americans in particular ways that make discrimination and violence against them more likely.

Heather McGhee, author of The Sum of Us and Ezra Klein of New York Times Opinion discuss the terrible price of drained-pool politics. This is a transcript of their conversation first broadcast on February 16.

Voters in precincts on the Navajo and Hopi reservations in northeastern Arizona cast nearly 60,000 ballots in the Nov. 3 election, compared with just under 42,500 in 2016. Biden won Arizona by about 10,500 votes, according to unofficial results.

What is the next step as America confronts its racism? A broadcast spectacle, New York Times critic Wesley Morris writes, that could look like court, a telethon, therapy, an Oprah show — and more.

For most of American history, the light-skinned Jesus conjured up by white congregations demanded the preservation of inequality as part of the divine order.

The Sierra Club is attempting to reckon with the racist views of its co-founder, legendary naturalist John Muir. The announcement is the most significant move by an environmental group to address systemic racism after the killings of George Floyd and other Black Americans sparked widespread protests across the country.

From New York Times Magazine: Robin DiAngelo’s best seller is giving white Americans a new way to talk about race. Do those conversations actually serve the cause of equality?

Then I spent I my three days in the belly of the whale. To be more precise the month of October 2019 broke me. It excised whatever small trace of “If you’re not doing anything wrong, you’ve got nothing to fear from the police” remaining in my spirit.