White privilege encompasses inherent advantages a white person has based on their race. An extension of that is white supremacy, which is the belief that white people are superior to other races, ...

The president and the dean of Johns Hopkins Medicine said that they "repudiate" language in a newsletter from the school’s Office of Diversity that used a "definition of privilege that runs counter to ...

My husband and I took a bicycle tour in Berlin during one of my work trips several years ago. As the tour guide pulled over, he announced that we’d arrived at the “Memorial to the Murdered Jews of ...

Feminist scholar and anti-racism educator Peggy McIntosh famously described white privilege as an “invisible weightless knapsack of special provisions, maps, passports, codebooks, visas, clothes, ...

I'm here to explain why George Zimmerman is white. This seems necessary given the confusion and anger with which some readers responded to my use of that word last week in this space to describe the ...

Christopher Quarles does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations ...

What follows is for the benefit of one William James O’Reilly Jr. — “Bill” to his fans. Last summer, O’Reilly, a pundit for Fox “News,” spent time talking about white privilege and his contention that ...

Privilege is such a fraught word. People can’t help but pay attention when they hear it. For many, it’s a dirty word and an even worse concept. It usually implies potentially unfair or undeserved ...

The underperformance of white working class students over decades has been one of the education system’s biggest - and seemingly most intractable - failures. And while many factors have been held to ...