Redskins and Crackers: What’s In a Name?

Veteran journalists and educators, Kevin Blackistone (Washington Post/University of Maryland) and Dave Zirin (journalist, author and host of Edge of Sports), discuss the flawed methodology of (and worse history behind) a recent poll claiming that “9/10” Native Americans are not offended by the term “redskins.”

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The Corporate King Memorial and The Burial of a Movement

Dr. King and the liberation movement he represents will again suffer a brutal blow this week when all are permanently entombed under the violent euphemism of “memorial.”  The dedication of this $120 million stone sculpture is to be a national tribute to a man whose entire body of work was designed to destroy the very…

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