“If it were a question on having a Marine Corps of 5,000 Whites or 250,000 Negroes, I would rather have the Whites.”
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How the American Civil War Built Egypt’s Vaunted Cotton Industry and Changed the Country Forever
The battle between the U.S. and the Confederacy affected global trade in astonishing ways
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Oprah’s book club pick: ‘The Underground Railroad,’ by Colson Whitehead
Nobody could wait for Colson Whitehead’s new book — including Oprah, so here it is, a month early.
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Black Lives Matter Releases Policy Agenda
It has been nearly two years since the killing of Michael Brown Jr. by a police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, touched off outrage and a national movement to save black lives from state violence. Now, just days ahead of the anniversary of Brown’s death, a coalition of organizations that grew from that uprising have launched a policy agenda calling for deep criminal justice and policing reforms.
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American Christianity has long struggled to be on the right side of Racial Justice
People of faith aren’t exempt from facing each generation’s political and ideological battles.
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Federal Appeals Court Strikes Down North Carolina Voter ID Requirement
A federal appeals court decisively struck down North Carolina’s voter identification law on Friday, saying its provisions deliberately “target African-Americans with almost surgical precision” in an effort to depress black turnout at the polls.
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A Thorny Question for African American Museum: Whose Story Do We Tell?
“Our museum is built on individual narratives, but you’re just not going to be able to tell everybody’s story,” curator Nancy Bercaw said.
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Destroying Art Depicting Slavery Shatters Everyone’s Shared Past
Corey Menafee, a Yale University employee, took a broomstick and smashed a stained-glass window depicting two slaves because, he said, he wanted to commit “civil disobedience” against the legacy of slavery.
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‘Soul On Bikes’ About African-American Biker Gang Picked Up For Film Adaptation
Rockmond Dunbar, the director-producer of the feature film Pastor Brown, has optioned Tobie Gene Levingston’s autobiographical book Soul On Bikes: The East Bay Dragons MC And The Black Biker Set about the rise and adventures of the infamous East Bay Dragon Motorcycle Club, the notorious all black Harley Davidson biker gang in Oakland, CA. Dunbar grew up in the Bay Area and has known Levingston, the East Bay Dragons and their exploits since his childhood.
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Why Highways Have Become the Center of Civil Rights Protest
After activists protesting the death of Philando Castile left the governor’s mansion in St. Paul, Minn., on Saturday night, they marched through the city down Lexington Parkway and then onto the highway, across all eight lanes of traffic. There, some of them sat down, a provocative gesture of civil disobedience in the face of rushing commerce.
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