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Why So Few of New York’s Finest Are Black – Ginger Adams Otis / The Atlantic
We’ll Need An Economic Program to Make #BlacklivesMatter: Here Are Three ideas – Jessie A. Myerson and Mychal Denzel Smith / The Nation
Black and White : The Way I See It – Richard Williams (Serena’s Dad)
He’d set his mind to raise two of the greatest women champions in professional tennis well before they could even hold a racket. The father…
Black Americans killed by police twice as likely to be unarmed as white people – Joe Swaine, Oliver Laughland, Jamiles Lartey / The Guardian
Obama’s true meaning of America – Greg Jaffe / Wash Post
Finding a Slave Ship, Uncovering History – The Editorial Board / NYT
Racism without Racist: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in America – Eduardo Bonilla -Silva
Eduardo Bonilla-Silva’s acclaimed Racism without Racists documents how beneath our contemporary conversation about race lies a full-blown arsenal of arguments, phrases, and stories that whites…
Race Color-Blind Public Policy : “An American Dilemma” – Ronald J Sheehy
“The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race, is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.” Chief Justice John Roberts How are…
Racial Penalties in Baltimore Mortgages – The Editorial Board / NYT
The racial spectacle of the National Spellling Bee: Our predictable “model minority” story strikes again. – Sameer Pandya / Salon
The Reckless Prosecution of Tiger Mandingo – Rod McCullom / The Nation
Biracial Beauty Queen Challenges Japan’s Self Image – Martin Fackler / NYT
Many Native American Communities Struggle With Effects of Heroin Use – Laurel Morales / NPR
Teachers Of All Races Are More Likely To Punish Black Students – Jeremy Adam Smith / Huff Post
Teaching the Controversy: James Baldwin and Richard Wright in the Ferguson Era – Benjamin Anastas / The New Republic
Losing Our Way: An Intimate Portrait of a Troubled America – Bob Herbert
In his eighteen years as an opinion columnist for The New York Times, Herbert championed the working poor and the middle class. After filing his last…
Fear Of A Black Superhero: Michael B. Jordan and the Importance of Colorblind Casting – Stereo Williams / The Daily Beast
It’s dismally apparent that some black lives matter more than others – Emma Dabri / The Guardian
This is your brain on Whiteness: The invisible psychology of white American ignorance explained – Chauncey Devega / Salon
Expats Find Brazil’s Reputation for Race-Blindness is Undone By Reality – Lourdes Garcia-Navarro / NPR
Malcolm X Matters: Icon’s Words Still Ring True – Kirsten West Savali / The Root
Is Harvard Showing Bias Against Asian-Americans – Kirk Carapezza / NPR
A Tax on Blackness – Jamelle Bouie / Slate
A Brief History of White Supremacy – Ronald J. Sheehy
The belief that whites are inherently superior to other races and therefore should dominate society is as American as apple pie. It is an idea…
Barack Obama – Discusses his autobiography, “Dreams from My Father,” and his early experiences with race – September 1995
God Help the Child – Toni Morrison
Spare and unsparing, God Help the Child – the first novel by Toni Morrison to be set in our current moment- weaves a tale about…
