On November 18, 1978, a charismatic leader Jim Jones ordered the followers of his People’s Temple to kill themselves, in what would become known as the Jonestown Massacre. The 1970s was the decade when civil rights came of age, in all its...
Had the referendum passed, this would have made Romania the 15th European country to include a ban on same-sex marriage in its constitution — eighth in the EU. It is easy to dismiss homophobia as a product of the alt-right, and to imagine that...
What happens when concern about racism is focused on policing the words that antiracist people use, rather than the acts of actual racists? Americans have a serious and complex problem with the notion of free speech. While everyone accepts the dogma...
As long as people deny others the right to choose when it comes to race, they continue to dance to a tune composed by those who had a vested interest in demarcating by skin color. Anthony Ekundayo Lennon is a rarity — a man who is publicly...
In this edition of The Interview, Fair Observer talks to Reverend John C. Dorhauer, the president of the United Church of Christ. On October 27, a gunman entered the Tree of Life synagogue in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh,...
