Watch ‘I Am Not Your Negro’ Official Trailer – Denise Oliver Velez / Daily Kos
‘I Am Not Your Negro’ will introduce James Baldwin to a new generation. There are voices we all need to hear. At a time when…
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Racial Progress Is Real. But So Is Racist Progress – Ibram X. Kendi / NYT
Barack Obama said in his final news conference that he planned to use his time off from politics “to do some writing.” I am hoping…
Who Decides Who Counts as Native American? – Brooke Jarvis / NYT
Is God a White Supremacist?’: Religion class at elite college tackles ‘transnational whiteness’ – Dave Urbanski / The Blaze
Cops’ Feelings on Race Show How Far We Have to Go – Nathalie Baptiste / Mother Jones
This week, the Pew Research Center released a report entitled “Behind the Badge,” a comprehensive survey of nearly 8,000 law enforcement officials across the United…
How Mass Incarceration Pushes Black Children Further Behind in School – Melinda D. Anderson / The Atlantic
In the summer of 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. delivered the closing remarks at the March on Washington. More than 200,000 people gathered to cast…
Milton Friedman, Betsy DeVos, and the Privatization of Public Education – Joanne Barkan / Dissent
The hidden reason Republicans are so eager to repeal Obamacare – Matthew Yglesias / Vox
White America is quietly self-segregating – Alvin Chang / Vox
The dangerous myth of the ‘missing black father’ – Mychal Denzel Smith / Wash Post
How The Systemic Segregation Of Schools Is Maintained By ‘Individual Choices’ – Nicole Hannah-Jones / NPR
Sixty-three years after the Supreme Court’s ruling in Brown v. Board of Education, many schools across the country either remain segregated or have re-segregated. Journalist…
Obama names 3 new national civil rights monuments, expands 2 others – Meteor Blades / Daily Kos
With All Due Disrespect ( Is Mr. Trump Legitimate?) – Paul Krugman / NYT
Trump’s attack on John Lewis is also a racist smear against black communities – Tara Culp-Ressler / ThinkProgress
In response to a series of tweets from President-elect Donald Trump on Saturday that attacked civil rights legend John Lewis for taking no action to…
Which Martin Luther King Are We Celebrating Today? Jason Sokol / NYT
U.S. government has ‘dismally failed’ to educate Native American children, lawsuit alleges – Emma Brown / Wash Post
Report: Chicago police use excessive force and often treat people “as animals or subhuman” – German Lopez / Vox
The ‘Hidden Figures’ Jeff Sessions Wants to Keep in the Shadows by Bill Moyers
As the Senate hearings for Jeff Sessions’ nomination as attorney general ran into their second day, I kept thinking about the movie Hidden Figures, which…
The Rust Belt whips and snaps after eight years of Obama – Justin Torres / Wash Post
The Plot to Hack America by (Counterterrorism Expert) Malcolm Nance
An African American counterterrorism expert, Malcolm Nance, explains in detail, before the election, how the Russians were subverting America’s democratic processes toward the end of electing Donald…
In the college game, blacks are dominant on the field, absent off of it – William C. Rhoden / The Undefeated
As the excitement of the classic championship game Monday between Clemson and Alabama subsides, I’m left with a vexing question: How do we escalate the…
Ode to Obama (Farewell) – Charles M. Blow / NYT
The dark clouds of the coming administration rolled in this week with a fury, producing a flood of strange and worrisome news. There was the…
What August Wilson Means Now : A Great Chronicler of the 20th Century – Ben Brantley and Wesley Morris / NYT
Trump voters were scared: Research shows increasing diversity might make Americans more xenophobic – Allison Skinner / Salon
Albert Woodfox was in isolation longer than any other American – Rachel Aviv / The New Yorker
‘What Happened To You, Dylann?’ Victim’s Friend Asks Roof At Sentencing – Rebecca Hersher / NPR
Pity the sad legacy of Barack Obama – Cornell West / The Guardian
Eight years ago the world was on the brink of a grand celebration: the inauguration of a brilliant and charismatic black president of the United…
Civil Rights Groups Hail Appeals Court Ruling in Case Challenging Exclusion of Dark-Skinned Juror – Joel Stashenko / New York Law Journal
ALBANY – Excluding a juror based on skin tone, like race, is prohibited under the New York Constitution, the state’s highest court has ruled in…