Oprah Winfrey continues her dialogue on race and is going in-depth with her latest Oprah's Book Club selection, "Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents," by Isabel Wilkerson. In addition to her ...

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The power of an analogy is twofold: it can make something relatable, or it can completely turn upside down all of our preconceived notions. Isabel Wilkerson seeks to do the latter in her most recent ...

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Pulitzer Prize winner Isabel Wilkerson has written an immediate classic with Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents. The veteran journalist examines race in America through the prism of caste, ...

In the winter of 1959, 30-year-old, Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. headed to India to see the land of the father of nonviolent protests, Mahatma Gandhi. Earlier, King had finished leading the year-long ...

In March 2008, Barack Obama’s presidential campaign nearly imploded when reporters revealed that his pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr., regularly blasted the United States as irredeemably racist. “[The ...

In Plessy v. Ferguson, the landmark civil rights case whose 7-2 defeat in the Supreme Court codified the principle of “separate but equal” in United States law for 58 years, Albion Tourgée, the lead ...

The word "caste" often comes up to describe India's system of social hierarchy, which has segmented society for centuries. But when Martin Luther King Jr. visited the country in 1959, he saw ...