As the epidemic moves to cities, evictions at site raise concern over loss of community and shortage of alternative housing
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Alabama HBCU Apologizes 58 Years After Expelling 9 Students for Sit-In Protest | Atlanta Black Star
“What happened to these individuals, these students and the faculty, in my mind, is a crime.”
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As Obama Presidential Center comes closer to reality, tensions on race, class surface | Chicago Tribune
The Obama Foundation’s plans to build the Obama Presidential Center in Jackson Park have sparked a complicated, and at times emotional, conversation about race, class, segregation, privilege and power on the South Side.
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A Civil-Rights Icon Urges Law Grads to Defend Free Speech | The Atlantic
Eleanor Holmes Norton used a commencement address at Georgetown to argue that securing positive, lasting change in America requires letting all sides have their say.
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After years of domestic violence, a gun changed everything | The Philadelphia Tribune
After one beating, Norris Jones went to her father’s house and shared what she was going through. “He looked at me and said, ‘What did you think marriage was?’”
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Shuri Is an Official Disney Princess Confirms Black Panther Star | MovieWeb
“…I grew up on Disney movies and grew up with the Disney Princesses and they didn’t really look like me. But now, you can go buy action figures and say this is a Disney Princess… right on!”
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‘Carmen Jones’ Is Back, and Its Director Knows What You’re Thinking | The New York Times
“Carmen Jones” brought European opera into a populist environment, and, like “Porgy and Bess” and “Cabin in the Sky,” provided opportunity for its all-black cast.
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Roxane Gay: ‘No one is guaranteed love or affection’ | The Guardian
The author of Bad Feminist and Hunger has strong words for ‘incels’, harassers in publishing and diet gurus
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MSNBC host Joy Reid apologizes for incendiary old blog posts | The Philadelphia Tribune
“I’m sorry for the collateral damage and pain this is causing individuals and communities caught in the crossfire…”
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Meet The Last Surviving Witness To The Tulsa Race Riot Of 1921 | NPR
“It was a neighborhood where you could be treated with respect…”
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