This world has blackness somewhere in the space between racial classification and liberation.
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Member Charged in Arson of Black Church With ‘Vote Trump’ Scrawled on Side – The New York Times
Mr. McClinton appeared voluntarily at the Greenville Police Department, where he made statements that implicated him in the crime on Wednesday, Mr. Strain said.
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‘Better Is Good’: Obama on Reparations, Civil Rights, and the Art of the Possible
The second in a series of interviews between Ta-Nehisi Coates and the president
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These Photos Show the People Who Turn a Cotton Plant Into Your Jeans – The Nation
Following the path of cotton from Burkina Faso to Bangladesh to your local mall.
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9 Black-Owned Goodies for the Natural Hair Lovers in Your Life – Okay Africa
This is our seventh gift guide in the run-up to the holidays.
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Flint — at long last — will receive funding for new water pipes
“Federal funding to help begin fixing the pipes at the heart of the Flint water crisis is shamefully overdue.”
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So many Black Businesses, so Little Clout: In a Majority Black City, Detroit Black Business still lags
“At the end of the day the data hasn’t changed that much. The gaps haven’t changed that much,”…
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The Best Jazz Albums of 2016
Plus the best historical releases.
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Americans at Work: Urban Farming in West Oakland
This week’s Americans at Work essay focuses on inner-city agriculture programs by photographer Preston Gannaway: “Today, about a third of West Oakland residents live in poverty and with food insecurity.
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Rebranding White Nationalism: Inside the Alt-Right
“I’ve lived in this multicultural mess for years and I’m trying to get out of it.”
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