During the month of August, we’ll be highlighting aspirational folks who are setting major #goals and achieving them, and asking them to share their stories and insight to help motivate us all to “live our best lives.”
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Fired/Rehired | The Washington Post
Police chiefs are often forced to put officers fired for misconduct back on the streets
View MoreSold on the Courthouse Steps | International African American Museum (IAAM)
An auction block at a commercial slave market is probably the most common visual that comes to mind when you think of people being separated from families during enslavement.
View MoreFirst Black woman to lead West Point’s Corps of Cadets | The Philadelphia Tribune
A Fairfax, Va. woman has become the first African-American woman to lead West Point’s Corps of Cadets, the U.S. Army announced.
View MoreThe Myth of Reverse Racism | The Atlantic
The idea of white victimhood is increasingly central to the debate over affirmative action.
View MoreIn 1950s Atlanta, Alfred ‘Tup’ Holmes Fought To End Segregation In Golf | WBUR
“My dad used golfing as a life lesson,” Michael Holmes says. “That you have to earn your way. That life is hard, that you have to work at it.”
View More‘Nobody kill anybody’: Murder-free weekend urged in Baltimore | The Baltimore Sun
Organizers aim to stop the shooting from Friday, Aug. 4, through Sunday, Aug. 6, with a unified and blunt message: “Nobody kill anybody.”
View MoreIn Harlem, a New Triennial Parses the Historical, Political, and Social Context of “Uptown” | Hyperallergic
The inaugural show at Columbia University’s Wallach Art Gallery spotlights 25 artists living or practicing north of 99th Street.
View MoreThese 20 Female Artists Are Pushing Figurative Painting Forward | Artsy
“We are living in a time that’s ripe with debate over what it means to be a human in one kind of body or another,” says Emily Mae Smith.
View MoreAre We Returning to Jim Crow? | The Root
When Donald Trump campaigned on the slogan “Make America Great Again,” many of us saw it for what it was—coded language for taking the mask—or the hood, as it were—off of white supremacy.
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