All The Way : Trailer (HBO Films)
Although this HBO film , starring Bryan Cranston as Lyndon B. Johnson, was first shown on Saturday, May 21, it is worth the effort to see…
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Can the new ‘Roots’ help us understand America’s current racial divide? Bethonie Butler / Wash Post
Bill O’Reilly’s making this up: His latest racial bloviating is just plain fiction – Chauncey Devega / Salon
Tales of African-American History Found in DNA – Carl Zimmer / NYT
China and India have a huge problem with racism toward black people – Ishaan Tharoor / Wash Post
On Donald Trump and the ‘good ol’ days, a must-watch video – Jen Hayden / Daily Kos
There isn’t much to say about this video mash-up of Donald Trump comments and 1960s civil rights protests. It speaks for itself in the starkest,…
The End of Black Harlem – Michael Henry Adams / NYT
In Black Lives Matter’s shift to economic issues, echoes of Black Panthers – Nissa Rhee / Christian Sci Monitor
Past Voices – This black leader’s 130-year-old book prophetically predicted the rise of Donald Trump – Timothy Thomas Fortune (1856 -1928) / History News Network
Timothy Thomas Fortune was an orator, civil rights leader, journalist, writer, editor and publisher. He was the highly influential editor of the nation’s leading black…
Mr. Trump’s All-White Nostalgia Movement – Joy-Ann Reid / The Daily Beast
Great White Hope: Trump Unites Generations Of White Nationalists – Allegra Kirkland / TPM
A Drumbeat of Multiple Shootings, but America Isn’t Listening – Sharon Lafraniere, Daniel Porat and Agustin Armendariz / NYT
Afro-Cuban Activists Fight Racism Between Two Fires – Sujatha Fernandes / The Nation
Justice Thomas Doesn’t See Anything Wrong With Excluding Jurors Based On Race – Ian Millhiser / Think Progress
The Supreme Court Just Sent a Strong Message About Racism in the Justice System – Stephanie Mencimer / Mother Jones
James Baldwin on “The Negro and the American Promise” / PBS
James Baldwin appears in Boston public television producer Henry Morgenthau III’s “The Negro and the American Promise,” alongside Martin Luther King and Malcolm X. The…
Without Jazz and Blues, There’s No Americana – David A. Graham / The Atlantic
The Permanence of the Confederate Flag – Nora Kelly / The Atlantic
Don’t look now, but Barack Obama is suddenly popular – Philip Bump / Wash Post
Steph and Ayesha Curry: Pro Sports’ Wholesome, All-American First Family – Amy Zimmerman / The Daily Beast
Collegiate Voices – What’s In a Name? For North Carolina Legislators, a Chance to Terminate HBCUs – Jarrett L. Carter / HBCU Digest
Two years ago, the New York Times editorial board told the nation that the state of North Carolina was burning on every key policy and social…
The Real Reason Why All The People Trump Wants To Put On The Supreme Court Are White – Ian Millhiser / Thinkprogress
A Million Questions From Descendants of Georgetown’s Slaves / NYT
Uncovering a Tale of Rocket Science, Race and the ’60s – Cara Buckley / NYT
Taraji P. Henson hates math, and Octavia Spencer has a paralyzing fear of calculus, but that didn’t stop either actress from playing two of the…
The Dangerous Acceptance of Donald Trump – Adam Gopnik / The New Yorker
Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, / As, to be hated, needs but to be seen,” the poet Alexander Pope wrote, in lines that were…
The Family Tree: A Lynching in Georgia, a Legacy of Secrets, and My Search for the Truth by Karen Branan
In the tradition of Slaves in the Family, the provocative true account of the hanging of four black people by a white lynch mob in…
Past Voices – A Blues for Albert Murray (1916 – 2013) – Thomas Chatterton Williams / The Nation
The name Albert Murray was never household familiar. Yet he was one of the truly original minds of 20th-century American letters. Murray, who died in…
