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The Racism Right Before Our Eyes | The New York Times

November 25, 2019November 25, 2019KOLUMN Magazine

There is implicit bias — and then there is behavior like this.

The Jim Crow South? No, Long Island Today | The New York Times

November 25, 2019November 25, 2019KOLUMN Magazine

An investigation reveals widespread housing discrimination against blacks and other minorities in New York’s suburbs, more than 50 years after the Fair Housing Act.

Stephen Miller is no outlier. White supremacy rules the Republican party | The Guardian

November 18, 2019November 18, 2019KOLUMN Magazine

Republican voters made Trump the white-supremacist-in-chief. That’s why a resignation from Miller wouldn’t change much

Hue Jackson to lead Colin Kaepernick workout; 13 NFL teams have committed to attend | ESPN

November 15, 2019November 15, 2019African American Athletes

Former NFL head coach Hue Jackson will lead the drills during quarterback Colin Kaepernick‘s scheduled workout in Atlanta on Saturday, and former NFL head coach Joe Philbin will be in attendance to assist, the league announced Thursday. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] The NFL said 11 teams have committed to attend: the Arizona Cardinals, Atlanta Falcons, Cleveland Browns, […]

We need to talk about slavery’s impact on all of us | The Guardian

November 11, 2019November 11, 2019African American History, Reparations

How should we address the longterm trauma that was caused? As professor of the history of slavery, I aim to find out

Jim Crow Compounded the Grief of African American Mothers Whose Sons Were Killed in World War I | Smithsonian Magazine

November 11, 2019January 27, 2020African American History, Black History ...

Smithsonian Books presents ‘We Return Fighting,’ a groundbreaking exploration of African American involvement in World War I

The Massacre That Spawned the Alt-Right | Politico

November 4, 2019November 4, 2019African American History, History ...

Forty years ago, a gang of Klansmen and Nazis murdered five communists in broad daylight. America has never been the same.

Making American White Again | The New Yorker

November 4, 2019November 4, 2019KINDR'D, KINDR'D Magazine ...

The choices made by white men, who are prepared to abandon their humanity out of fear of black men and women, suggest the true horror of lost status.

Why We Need A Serious Reeducation On Slavery | Blavity

October 17, 2019July 22, 2020African American History, Black History ...

Our education systems tend to provide students with a truncated version of the actual horrors of slavery.

The Ghosts of Elaine, Arkansas, 1919 | NY Books

October 3, 2019July 18, 2020African American History, Black History ...

In America’s bloody history of racial violence, the little-known Elaine Massacre in Phillips County, Arkansas, which took place in October 1919, a century ago this week, may rank as the deadliest. The reasons why the event has remained shrouded and obscure, despite a shocking toll of bloodshed inflicted on the African-American inhabitants of Phillips County, […]