Three weeks later than originally scheduled, Norfolk schools were finally ready to open. Well, most of them. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] On Sept. 29, 1958, 48 of Norfolk’s schools welcomed students – but the doors of six were padlocked and under police guard. Maury, Norview and Granby high schools and Northside, Norview and Blair junior highs remained […]
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Russian Ballet Refuses to Stop Using Blackface | The Cut
Last week, American ballerina Misty Copeland posted a a photo to her Instagram of two ballerinas posing in blackface. “This is the reality of the ballet world,” she captioned the post, kicking off an international debate about racism in ballet. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] The photo was an image reposted from the Instagram of a dancer in […]
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Honoring the ‘Green Book’: A life-saving travel guide for African Americans during segregation | WMCAction News 5
‘If you wandered into a place where African Americans are not welcome…you could end up actually being killed’
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US city to pay reparations to African-American community with tax on marijuana sales | The Telegraph
A city in Illinois has announced it will create a reparations fund for its African American community through a new tax on marijuana sales. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] Recreational use of the drug will become legal in the state from January and officials in Evanston, which is 12 miles north of Chicago, have voted to approve a […]
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When advertisers fetishize race | The Washington Times
Depicting a sanitized racial utopia is unfamiliar to most Americans
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Stephen Miller is no outlier. White supremacy rules the Republican party | The Guardian
Republican voters made Trump the white-supremacist-in-chief. That’s why a resignation from Miller wouldn’t change much
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Public memorial for the great Toni Morrison set for November 21 in NYC | Lithub
If you are in New York City on Thursday, November 21 you have the good fortune to be able to honor one of the truly great American writers, the late Toni Morrison. Morrison, who died on August 5 at the age of 88, will be memorialized at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine on […]
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Sweetness | The New Yorker
It’s not my fault. So you can’t blame me. I didn’t do it and have no idea how it happened. It didn’t take more than an hour after they pulled her out from between my legs for me to realize something was wrong. Really wrong. She was so black she scared me. Midnight black, Sudanese […]
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The Color Fetish | The New Yorker
Of constant fascination for me are the ways in which literature employs skin color to reveal character or drive narrative—especially if the fictional main character is white (which is almost always the case). Whether it is the horror of one drop of the mystical “black” blood, or signs of innate white superiority, or of deranged […]
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Making American White Again | The New Yorker
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.
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