People make vastly different assumptions about salary, education, and social status depending on which phrase is used.
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Reparations 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.
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Teju Cole talks to Taiye Selasi: ‘Afropolitan, American, African. Whatever’
The authors discuss translation, ‘travelling while black’ and how to avoid classification
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Traditional 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.
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White 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 […]
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Ahead 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).
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Can 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.
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How African American Entrepreneurs Can Power the Economy
New business creation is down in general, but up among African Americans.
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Honoring the heroic ‘Montford Pointers,’ the African American Marines the Corps Didn’t Want
“If it were a question on having a Marine Corps of 5,000 Whites or 250,000 Negroes, I would rather have the Whites.”
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How the American Civil War Built Egypt’s Vaunted Cotton Industry and Changed the Country Forever
The battle between the U.S. and the Confederacy affected global trade in astonishing ways
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