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How the New Civil Rights Movement Can Build on the Lessons of the Old – Marshall Ganz / Bill Moyers & Company
Creating change requires understanding the power you have, and building a movement goes beyond protests. We asked a number of contributors to share their reactions…
Past Voices – Full text of A memorial discourse; by Henry Highland Garnet, delivered to the US Congress,1865
The 38th Congress took action on one of America’s most enduring and vexatious issue on January 21, 1864 by passing the 13th Amendment to the…
Nixon’s Mark on Republican Convention – Robin Lindsay and Dave Horn / NYT Video
As Donald J. Trump seeks to position himself as a “law and order” candidate, there are echoes of Richard Nixon, a candidate who sought to…
White people think racism is getting worse. Against white people – Samuel Sommers and Michael Norton / Wash Post
Who can now say the Republican party isn’t a vehicle of white power? Stephen W. Thrasher / The Guardian
The Most Extreme Republican Platform in Memory – The Editorial Board / NYT
This Year’s RNC Has the Lowest Share of Black Delegates at Any GOP Convention in a Century – Josh Voorhees / Slate
The Racial Motivation for Putting Hillary in Prison – Brian Butler / New Republic
Leave it to an 8th-grader to explain his “white boy privilege” better than most adults – German Lopez / Vox
Leave it to an eighth-grader to explain a concept that many adults still struggle with. For a contest at his school in Atlanta back in…
Dallas, Baton Rouge and the troubled history of black veterans in America – Chad Williams / Wash Post
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A History of White Delusion ( Dr. Brian Williams treated some of the police officers who were shot. “He cares for the police, but also fears them”) – Nicholas Kristof / NYT
Cornel West: Justice and Accountability are Necessary to End Tension over Killings by Police – Cornell West / Democracy Now
We discuss the killing of three police officers in Baton Rouge and the recent nationwide protests against police brutality with Cornel West. Cornel West is…
On Social Media, Baton Rouge Suspect Saw World ‘Run by Devils’ / NYT
A Study in Contrast – Obama and Trump / Historians and the New York Times Weigh In
“Historians Against Trump : An Open Letter to the American People.” Read here “With Obama, the Personal is Presidential.” Read here
Sorry Conservatives, New Research from Harvard Shows a Profound Amount of Racism by Police…Not Less of It – Chauncey DeVega / Salon
Why Black Lives Matter is going global – Sher Watts Spooner / Daily Kos
Collegiate Voices – What Should We Teach Them Now? John Silvanus Wilson / Huff Post
In 1984, my brother and I were fortunate enough to survive an encounter with the police. It occurred near the beginning of a drive from…
Honoring the Police and Their Victims – Jelani Cobb / The New Yorker
ESPYs: NBA Stars Say ‘Shoot-to-Kill Mentality Has to Stop’ – Elias Leight / Rolling Stone
Lebron James, Carmelo Anthony, Chris Paul and Dwyane Wade call for action to stop gun violence. Watch the video here.
Fears in Baton Rouge underscore growing racial tension across US – Jon Swaine / The Guardian
What if Black Males Profiled White C.O.P.S? – Bryant T. Marks
Many of us woke up the other morning with one and/or two questions: how could a black male get to the point where he shoots twelve police officers,…
Watch: a Republican senator’s personal speech on his experience with police as a black man – German Lopez / Vox
A common response to the outcry over police misconduct is to almost immediately blame the victim – he had a criminal record, he didn’t listen…
Segregation in Paradise? Minnesota’s Twin Cities – Alana Samuels / The Atlantic
The Singular Trauma Of A Child Who Loses A Parent To A Police Shooting – Alex Zielinski / Think Progress
Police Shootings, Race, and the Fear Defense – Benjamin Wallace-Wells / The New Yorker
The Near Certainty of Anti-Police Violence – Ta-Nehisi Coates / The Atlantic
By ignoring illegitimate policing, America has also failed to address the danger this illegitimacy poses to those who must do the policing. Read more
