The tone of America today feels like America in the late 1960s, which was similarly riven by cyclical violence and discontent. Our elected officials and law enforcement authorities can learn from how their predecessors responded to civil unrest — but mostly by negative example.
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Dandyism, Race and Masculinity Collide at The Photographer’s Gallery
When Guinness launched an advertisement and documentary two years ago featuring Congolese blue-collar workers transforming into a dashing flock of unlikely fashion stars, the world was captivated.
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Documenting New Orleans’ Black Community – In Pictures
The Historic New Orleans Collection has acquired the photo archive of photojournalist Harold F. Baquet, its first collection by a black photographer.
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Where I’m From
How a trip to Kenya changed the way I think about the terms African-American and black American.
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Anti-Mugabe Protest Pastor Evan Mawarire Detained Ahead of Shutdown in Zimbabwe
Pastor Evan Mawarire is the activist behind the #ThisFlag campaign in Zimbabwe, a movement that began in April when the 39-year-old Zimbabwean took to his Facebook page to voice his concerns in a video, captioned with the hashtag #ThisFlag, that’s been viewed 150 000 times and counting.
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How Much Can Better Training Do to Improve Policing?
Two former police chiefs and a researcher discuss how to improve law-enforcement practices.
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The Senate’s Only Black Republican Opens Up About Being Mistreated by Cops
Citing recent killings by police, Tim Scott of South Carolina asked his colleagues to stop ignoring the struggles of those who face racial prejudice.
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How Eden Hagos’s Black Foodie Blog Examines the Racial Rhetoric of Food – The Globe and Mail
Food blogger Eden Hagos has a fever for flavour that goes way back.
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West Side Stories: The Good, The Bad & The Ugly
In the early 1900s, editor and founder of The Chicago Defender Robert Sengstacke Abbott urged Blacks to come to the north, especially Chicago, by advertising successful Black individuals in the city with many job opportunities and a boisterous social and entertainment life as inspiration for Blacks to leave the South.
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The Near Certainty of Anti-Police Violence
By ignoring illegitimate policing, America has also failed to address the danger this illegitimacy poses to those who must do the policing.
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