The season 3 premiere began and climaxed at an unnamed version of the storied, memeified Georgia lake. The real history is just as dark.

The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), which monitors hate groups, called the KKK "the most infamous — and oldest — of American hate groups." The KKK's website states that the organization's ...

Sitting on the subway has never been this controversial. Labeled "manspreading" after its most frequent offender, people who spread their legs wide on subways and buses have been the target of ...

In the online art workshops of the white nationalist alt right, young neo-Nazis and neo-fascists trade simple aesthetic tips: Consider your color scheme in advance, build your image in sections of ...

Yes, NyQuil as in the cough syrup and chicken as in, a food that should not be seasoned with cough syrup. A pair of (hopefully) satirical cooking videos have gone viral on TikTok, and in them ...

Beyoncé's visual album Lemonade sampled a few artists but one of the most striking, memorable samples came from the voice of civil rights leader Malcolm X. Lemonade is about the power and ...

So, let Angela Davis explain. The philosopher-activist and professor was hunted down by the FBI for a crime she didn't commit, jailed in 1970, and freed in 1972. While serving her sentence in a ...

Our notions of good and evil are as malleable and evolving as the society around us. Whereas once we used to burn opinionated women as witches, or assume seizures were a sure sign of demonic ...

This trend is fascinating, in part because there's long been a taboo associated with people (particularly, women) choosing to opt out of parenthood. Women who choose not to have kids have been ...

Boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) are big news in 2014. If Scarlett Johansson's Sodastream fiasco didn't grab your attention, perhaps the American Studies Association's boycott of Israeli ...

In 2001, the Portuguese government did something that the United States would find entirely alien. After many years of waging a fierce war on drugs, it decided to flip its strategy entirely: It ...

Illegal, criminal, threatening, family-oriented, hard-working, patriotic — these are the contradictory words used to describe Latinos. They demonstrate an inconsistency we Latinos know all too ...