Dr. Neal A.

Lester

As protesters across the nation rise up against police violence and systemic racism in support of Black lives, there’s something white allies need to recognize.

While we are increasingly aware of the need to address racist, sexist, homophobic, ageist and classist language, ableist language is too often disregarded.

Racism, white privilege and white supremacy are challenges that people of color neither created nor should be expected to resolve. This scholar encourages white allies to step up.

What does the rise in hate groups and hate crimes say about our American history and American democracy when all lives should matter?

Representations of black people as animals is both a past and present manifestation of the United States’ complicated history with race.