IT has become a standard conservative talking point: Black activists focus on police brutality but ignore violent crime in black neighborhoods.
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This Adopted Woman Wrote An Awesome Book To Encourage More Black Families To Adopt
“They’re children, and they need love. At the end of the day, that’s really all that matters.”
View MoreThe Financial Consequences of Saying ‘Black,’ vs. ‘African American’
People make vastly different assumptions about salary, education, and social status depending on which phrase is used.
View MoreReparations Site Asks People to ‘Offset Your Privilege’ with Acts of Kindness | The Guardian
The project by a Seattle-based artist lets strangers help a person of color with anything from childcare to taxes, and has attracted both praise and criticism.
View MoreTeju Cole talks to Taiye Selasi: ‘Afropolitan, American, African. Whatever’
The authors discuss translation, ‘travelling while black’ and how to avoid classification
View MoreTraditional Healers and Modern Medicine in Madagascar
Officials and NGOs hope to work with healers, who thrive in remote areas, in order to reach underserved communities.
View MoreWhite Noise in the ‘Conversation’ About Race
[three_fourth padding=”0 0px 0 0px”]White Noise in the ‘Conversation’ About Race 0 5 | A U G U S T | 2 0 1 6 Polling suggests the problem isn’t that we’re not talking about race; it’s that the majority of white Americans aren’t listening. BY Donovan X. Ramsey | PUBLICATION The Nation [dropcap]A[/dropcap] full […]
View MoreAhead of the 2016 Summer Olympics—Black Lives Matter Activists March in Solidarity with Brazil
It’s becoming quite apparent that black lives are being snuffed out by police globally (see Canada and France).
View MoreCan the Save Our Schools Movement Fix Public Education?
Activists such as Jonathan Kozol headed to Washington, D.C., to protest inequalities in the K-12 system.
View MoreHow African American Entrepreneurs Can Power the Economy
New business creation is down in general, but up among African Americans.
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