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This Community is Not A White Community – David Noriega / BuzzFeed
A Complex World : History, Religion, Caste and Race in India – Runoko Rashidi / Atlantablackstar
The South African Gandhi: Stretcher-Bearer of Empire – Ashwin Desai and Goolem Vahed
In the pantheon of freedom fighters, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi has pride of place. His fame and influence extend far beyond India and are nowhere more…
History Repeats Itself With Backlash Against Black Empowerment – Todd Steven Burroughs / The Root
White Fright: Does Donald Trump represent the ascendency of white nationalism on the American right? Reihan Salam – Slate
Ken Burn’s ‘Civil War’ After Dylann Roof – Christopher Dickey / The Daily Beast
The Left’s Attack on Color-Blindness Goes Too Far – Conor Friedersdorf / The Atlantic
70 Classic Black Films Everyone Should See At Least Once – Kelley L. Carter / Buzz Feed
Negroland: A Memoir – Margo Jefferson
At once incendiary and icy, mischievous and provocative, celebratory and elegiac—here is a deeply felt meditation on race, sex, and American culture through the prism…
The Truth of ‘Black Lives Matter’ – The Editorial Board / NYT
Yes, One book Can Change Your Life, Even in Prison – Sasha Bronner / Huff Post
One-on-One With Afro-Cubans: What It Means to be Black in Cuba – Henry Louis Gates Jr / The Root
Armed revolution and free breakfast: The extraordinary true story of “The Black Panthers” and how they shaped our era – Andrew O’Hehir / Salon
The enlightening legacy of the Rosenwald schools -Karen Heller / Wash Post
Race Baiting 101 – Matthew Cook / You Tube
Race Baiting 101 is a short documentary that obliterates conservatives and exposes real race baiters. We have all seen comment threads, headlines, and news scrawls…
White Hands and Black Skulls: From the Panthers to “Straight Outta Compton” – Stuart Klawans / The Nation
Megyn Kelly demands Cornel West explain why #BlackLivesMatter doesn’t protest black-on-black violence – Scott Eric Kaufman / Salon
A Summer so Lawless in D.C. , it Feels Like the Wild West – Colbert I. King / Wash Post
The solace of street knowledge: Violence, black vulnerability and reading the lessons of Ta-Nihisi Coates in “Straight Outta Compton” – Silpa Kouvali / Salon
Ten Years Since: A Meditation on New Orleans – Kristina Kay Robinson / The Nation
Black Rage – William H. Grier and Price M. Cobbs
The first book to examine the full range of black life from the vantage point of psychiatry, this widely acclaimed work has established itself as…
Why America Needs a Slavery Museum (Video: The Whitney Plantation) – Paul Rosenfeld / The Atlantic
Why America Needs a Slavery Museum Aug 25, 2015 | 18-part series Video by The Atlantic The Whitney Plantation near Wallace, Louisiana, is the first and…
August 27, 1963: W.E.B. Du Bois dies – Richard Kreitner / The Nation
Africa’s democratic road to economic unity – Editorial Board / Christian Science Monitor
Confederate Fantasies and the Donald Trump Surge – Bob Cesca / Salon
How companies make millions off lead-poisoned, poor blacks – Terrence McCoy / Wash Post
