White immigrants weren’t always considered white — and acceptable – Brando Simeo Starkey / The Undefeated
Who, exactly, is white? The answer sounds obvious — we know a white person when we see one, we think. But when Italians poured into…
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Betsy DeVos’ Educational Experiments on Black Children In Michigan Should Worry Us All – Cliff Albright / Atlanta Black Star
Yale Will Drop John Calhoun’s Name From Building – Noah Remnick / NYT
It’s Black History Month. Look in the Mirror by George Yancy / The Stone NYT
To many Americans, February, first officially recognized by President Gerald Ford in 1976 as Black History Month, is a time to celebrate African-American achievements, ones…
Why we don’t have White History Month ?- Jenee Desmond-Harris / Vox
During February, it’s not uncommon to hear the refrain, “If there’s an African American History Month, why isn’t there a white one?” This question ,…
They Can’t Kill Us All: Ferguson, Baltimore, and a New Era in America’s Racial Justice Movement by Wesley Lowery
A New York Times bestseller A New York Times Editors’ Choice “Essential reading.”–Junot Diaz “Electric…so well reported, so plainly told and so evidently the work…
Why Tamron Hall Walked Away from Today: ‘She Wasn’t Going to Settle for Sitting on the Sidelines’ – Jamine Rubenstein / MSN
The racist history of incarceration that Donald Trump is threatening to repeat -Esther Yu His Lee / ThinkProgress
A ‘Dear White People’ Netflix Teaser Just Dropped And It’s Everything – Zeba Bay / Huff Post
The teaser trailer for Netflix’s highly-anticipated “Dear White People” series has finally been released. Based on the indie hit that premiered with rave reviews at…
Integration Works. Can It Survive the Trump Era? Thomas B. Edsall / NYT
The 2016 election deepened the chasm between those voters who believe that the government should address the problems of the poor and those who are…
Judge orders NYPD to disclose surveillance records of Black Lives Matters activists – Lauren C. Williams / ThinkProgress
Satchel Paige becomes first Negro League player nominated to Baseball Hall of Fame – Rhiannon Walker / The Undefeated
Oklahoma City Exposes the Origins of Today’s White Nationalism – Brandon Harris / New Republic
Read the letter Coretta Scott King wrote opposing Sessions’s 1986 federal nomination – Wesley Lowery / Wash Post
Coretta Scott King, the widow of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., urged Congress in a letter to block the 1986 nomination of Jeff Sessions…
In Search of the Slave Who Defied George Washington – Jennifer Schulessler / NYT
MOUNT VERNON, Va. — The costumed characters at George Washington’s gracious estate here are used to handling all manner of awkward queries, whether about 18th-century…
These Families Wanted ‘Hugs Not Walls’ As They Reunited At The Border – Carolina Moreno / Huff Post
Teaching Southern and Black History Under Trump – Charles Bethea / The New Yorker
Black Women Face Devastating Losses If Obamacare Is Repealed – Julia Craven / Huff Post
Bianca Adams worked part-time jobs as a spa professional, sometimes juggling two or three at a time, for years. But none of them offered her…
Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America by Michael Eric Dyson
NOW A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER | NAMED A BEST/MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2017 BY: The Washington Post • Bustle • Men’s Journal • The…
Coach Bob Douglas and his New York Rens changed how basketball was played – Daryl Bell / The Undefeated
Trump’s top adviser believes we’re at the “very beginning stages of a global conflict.” – Tom McCarthy / The Guardian
Trump is setting us free:’ White supremacists celebrate reports that Trump will dial down scrutiny – Laurel Raymond and Alan Pyke / ThinkProgress
Online neo-Nazi and white supremacist forums have been unmistakably jubilant lately, as web chatter moved from celebrating President Donald Trump’s electoral victory to celebrating individual…
Boston Defies Trump on Immigrants the Way the City’s Abolitionists Once Fought Slavers – Kevin M. Levin / The Daily Beast
In a press conference at City Hall last month, surrounded by elected officials and black, Latino, and Asian staff members, Boston’s Mayor Marty Walsh delivered…
A Lesson in Black History ( Donald Trump and Frederick Douglass) – Charles M. Blow / NYT
Last week at a supposed Black History Month “listening session” at the White House, Donald Trump made this baffling statement: “I am very proud now…
Secret Service agrees to pay $24 million in decades-old race-bias case brought by black agents – Carol D. Leoning / Wash Post
The Secret Service agreed Tuesday to pay $24 million to settle a two-decade-old case in which more than 100 black agents alleged that the agency fostered…
Why Trump’s ‘Muslim Ban’ Is a Gift to Real Terrorists – Ali Olomi / Alternet
The Misunderstood Genius of Russell Westbrook – San Anderson / NYT
Are Charter Schools Good or Bad for Black Students? Graham Vyse / New Republic
Black History Month began Wednesday, and this year’s theme is “The Crisis in Black Education.” According to the Association for the Study of African American…