News
After Charleston: Recovery and Resistance since the Emanuel Nine – David Remnick / The New Yorker
Barack Obama just gave the most important racial justice speech of his presidency – Brittney Cooper / Salon
Government policies based on racist myths help dissolve black families – Syreeta McFadden / The Guardian
Race Is Always The Issue – Tressie McMillan Cotton / The Atlantic
Study Explains Why Ben Carson Won’t Help The Republican Party Win Black Voters – Kira lerner / thinkprogress
Showdown: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court Nomination That Changed America – Wil Haygood
Thurgood Marshall brought down the separate-but-equal doctrine, integrated schools, and not only fought for human rights and human dignity but also made them impossible to…
What Happened to German America ? – Erik Kirschbaum / NYT
How The Constitution Was Indeed Pro-Slavery – David Waldstreicher / The Atlantic
Prison versus Harvard in an Unlikely Debate – Leslie Brody / Wall St Journal
How to be white and happy in South Africa – Jonathan Jansen (Vice Chancellor of University of the Free State / Rand Daily Mail
The Number of Black Teachers Has Fallen in 9 Major Cities – Casey Quinlan / Thinkprogress
Haunted by Memories for 100 years – Dan Berry / NYT Video
ELLISVILLE, Miss. — The dark S.U.V. rented for the occasion stopped outside the one-story City Hall. A wheelchair was rolled up to receive a petite…
How the South’s Public Enemy No 1 Climbed Onto the Supreme Court – Annette Gordon-Reed / Wash Post
Our Man In Charleston : Britain’s Secret Agent In The Civil War South – Christopher Dickey
Between the Confederacy and recognition by Great Britain stood one unlikely Englishman who hated the slave trade. His actions helped determine the fate of a…
Ahmed Mohamed is just one example of the bigotry American Muslims face – Linda Sarcour / The Guardian
Ta-Nehisi Coates: “For African Americans, unfreedom is the historical norm ” – Ezra Klein / Vox
The Black Family in the Age of Mass Incarceration – Ta-Nehisi Coates / The Atlantic
Will the Ferguson Commission’s Final Report Just Collect Dust On a Shelf – Mariah Stewart / Huff Post
How we won, and are losing, the right to vote – John Lewis / Wash Post
Color-Blindness is Counterproductive – Adia Harvey Whitfield / The Atlantic
‘Between the World and Me,’ A Review From Africa – Chris Ogunlowo / Brittle Paper
The Next Genocide – Timothy Snyder / NYT
Teaching Slavery to Reluctant Listeners – Edward E. Baptist / NYT
How Psychiatrist Willaim Grier, dead at 89, predicted BlackLivesMatter with ‘Black Rage’ – Justin Wm. Moyer / Wash Post
Past Voices – William H. Grier and Price M. Cobbs on ‘Black Rage’ / KRON News Footage From 1968
KRON News footage from September 2nd 1968 featuring views of William H. Grier & Price M. Cobb walking down Fillmore Street in San Francisco (between McAllister…