News
Structural Racism Needs to Be a Presidential Campaign Issue – Jamil Smith / New Republic
How Privilege Became a Provocation – Parul Sehgal / NYT
How One Law Banning Ethnic Studies Led to its Rise – J. Winston Phippen / The Atlantic
Fearless Journalist and All-Round Badass Ida B. Wells Honored With Google Doodle – Dominique Mosbergen / Huff Post
One year after Eric Garner’s death, a quest for path out of police community hostility – Harry Bruinius / Christian Sci Monitor
Our Racial Moment of Truth – Isabel Wilkerson / NYT
What the Country Owes Harriet Tubman – Brent Staples / NYT
The radical chic of Ta – Nehisi Coates – Carlos Lozada / Wash Post
Between The World and Me – Ta – Nehisi Coates
Hailed by Toni Morrison as “required reading,” a bold and personal literary exploration of America’s racial history by “the single best writer on the subject…
Plan to launch Brazil’s only slave memoir, revisit dark past – Adriana Gomez Licon / Miami Herald
Black child poverty rate holds steady, even as other groups see declines – Eilleen Patten and Jens Manuel Krogstad / Pew Res Ctr
The history of British slave ownership has been buried: now its scale can be revealed – David Olusoga / The Guardian
The Black President Some Worried About Has Arrived – Janell Ross / Wash Post
Prosecution Is About Locking Black People Up – Leon Neyfakh / Slate
Why 100 Black Intellectuals Rallied Behind This Professor – Dani McClain / The Nation
Black Bodies, White Gazes – George Yancy
Unfortunately, racism isn’t ‘over’ in America. We aren’t there yet. Everyone who has ever occupied, loved, feared or resented a human being housed in a…
Past Voices – Souls of White Folks – W.E.B. Du Bois (1868-1963)
“Souls of White Folks.” Originally published in 1920 as the second chapter in “Darkwater – Voices From Within the Veil.” I’m Intrigued “High in the tower,…
As the South Looks Backward – Jim Grimsley / Slate
Stateless in the Dominican Republic – The Editorial Board / NYT
The Astonishing Greatness of Serena Williams – Matt Schiavenza / The Atlantic
Rap in Rio : Why hip-hop is the new sound in the city of samba – Dom Phillips / Wash Post
Here Are the 10 States with The Most Hate Groups – Sam Stebbins / Huff Post
South Carolina’s losing battle to rewrite its racist history – Eugene Robinson / Wash Post
Past Voices – Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) Oration in Memory of Abraham Lincoln
Delivered at the Unveiling of The Freedmen’s Monument in Lincoln Park, Washington, D.C. April 14, 1876 The Occasion Friends and Fellow-citizens: “I warmly congratulate you…
Black Churches Are Burning Again in America – Emma Green / The Atlantic
The Housing Recovery Has Skipped Poor and Minority Neighborhoods – David Dayen / The New Republic
