The “Unite the Right” gathering wasn’t a Klan rally at all. It was a pride march.
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How black grassroots politics led to the 14th Amendment and black citizenship | The Conversation
As the nation seeks to understand the recent violence, and as the Black Lives Matter Movement claims the mantle of black leadership, now is an important time to remember an earlier period of race-based violence and civil rights struggles.
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James Baldwin Quotes That Are Powerful Enough to Stand True Today | Essence
Celebrate Baldwin’s birthday with quotes that are still relatable in today’s society.
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The Black American Women Who Made Their Own Art World | Hyperallergic
We Wanted a Revolution at the Brooklyn Museum tracks the shape-shifting radicalism of black women artists, authors, filmmakers, dancers, gallerists, and public figures between 1965 and 1985.
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Sold 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.
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The Myth of Reverse Racism | The Atlantic
The idea of white victimhood is increasingly central to the debate over affirmative action.
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In 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.”
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Are 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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Review: In ‘Detroit,’ Black Lives Caught in a Prehistory of the Alt-Right | The New York Times
Racial slurs fly fast and furious in Kathryn Bigelow’s “Detroit,” but the most troubling and divisive words uttered onscreen are variations on the simple pronouns “they” and “them.”
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Shame on You Jeff Bezos! Amazon Data Center Threatens a Century-Old Black Va. Neighborhood | The Root
More than a few outraged citizens turned out this weekend to protest the fact that behemoth company Amazon, via its lackey Dominion Virginia, is attempting to seize 50 acres of land belonging to a mostly elderly African-American Northern Virginia community that dates back to slavery.
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