Cynthia Tucker

As I read official accounts of the collapse of Baltimore's iconic and important Francis Scott Key Bridge, here's what I noticed: Most of the victims were immigrants from south of...

For a few years now, libraries have been under siege by right-wing book-banning enthusiasts who find fodder for the culture wars in a handful of books containing a few passages...

Nearly a decade ago, Planned Parenthood became the target of furious denunciations by conservative lawmakers, who insisted that the organization was engaged in the nefarious trafficking of fetal tissue to...

The American political environment has grown so strange that I've found it hard to keep up with every outrageous utterance, every outlandish bit of polling data, every weird political provocation....

Seventeen-year-old Jabari Malloy was shot dead near his Washington, D.C., apartment in late February, but you probably haven't heard a word about the crime. You likely haven't heard about the...

My home state of Alabama consistently ranks in the bottom 10 for the health and welfare of its children. It has among the highest rates of infant and child mortality...

Despite book bans, fired teachers and billionaires' attacks on diversity, many schools have still trotted out teaching plans for Black History Month, complete with superficial lessons on Booker T. Washington,...

Dan Carter's 1995 biography of Alabama's infamous segregationist governor is titled "The Politics of Rage: George Wallace, the Origins of the New Conservatism, and the Transformation of American Politics." But...

Once or twice a week these days, as I scan various online and print publications, I come across an opinion essay skeptical of the need for a four-year college degree....

Back in the last century, before right-wing activist Christopher Rufo turned the phrase "diversity, equity and inclusion" into the enemy of all that is right and good about America, "affirmative...