— ELI NEWMAN | WDET A federal judge tossed out a city lawsuit filed against the protesters in March. The decision comes as hundreds of criminal charges against demonstrators were dismissed. While the trial of former police officer Derek Chauvin continues in Minneapolis, other legal proceedings have cropped up around the country in connection to the […]
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We Need a Second Great Migration | The New York Times
Georgia illuminates the path to Black power. It lies in the South. Follow me there. — Charles M. Blow, The New York Times ATLANTA — A year ago this week, I packed some bags and left New York City for Atlanta. I’d lived in New York for 26 years. The city made me feel […]
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When White People Give Other White People Credit For Not Being Racist | Data Driven Investor
— WILLIAM SPIVEY, DATA DRIVEN INVESTOR Because I apparently have masochistic tendencies, I follow the blog of conservative lawyer Jonathan Turley. While he would no doubt claim to be even-handed, he is always ready to defend most everything Trump does and criticizes the actions of those on the left while ignoring most of what the […]
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The Defiance of Black Joy in an Especially Anti-Black Year | LEVEL
Sometimes you have to laugh to keep from crying — David Dennis, Jr., LEVEL I’ve been thinking a lot about joy lately. Maybe it’s the Thanksgiving trip I recently canceled. Maybe it’s the constant despair we’ve experienced throughout 2020 — the feeling that we’ve spent a year of our lives suspended between moments of tragedy. […]
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Imagine a World That Doesn’t Center Whiteness | ZORA
Author Ijeoma Oluo challenges us to embrace true liberation — Adrienne Samuels Gibbs, ZORA Ijeoma Oluo’s new book about mediocre White men isn’t just a message for racists. It has a message for us as well. As Oluo told me in our interview: “We are continuously building and defining ourselves. If we don’t know […]
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On Race and Property in the South: Shirley Elizabeth Thompson, interviewed by Lucy McKeon | The New York Review
“There is just something about the robustness of Black cultural institutions and networks in the South that can’t be matched elsewhere.” — Lucy McKeon, The New York Review On November 19, 2020, we published Shirley Elizabeth Thompson’s “Georgia On My Mind,” the author’s reflection on her hometown of Atlanta—of growing up amid gentrification, white […]
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Teaching Racial Justice Isn’t Racial Justice | The New York Times
There is a place for education in the fight against racism, but we shouldn’t confuse it for the fight itself. — BENJAMIN Y. FONG, THE NEW YORK TIMES In the wake of the murder of George Floyd and the season of protests for equality and against police violence that followed, universities are seeking to affirm […]
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Feds arrest leader of white supremacy group who ran ‘hate camp’ in Michigan | Detroit Free Press
— TRESA BALDAS, DETROIT FREE PRESS The leader of a national white supremacist group who ran a “hate camp” in Michigan and one of his cohorts were charged Thursday with multiple crimes as extremist groups continue to land on the FBI’s radar nationwide. The latest suspects were arrested at their homes at 6 a.m. Thursday for their alleged roles in […]
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Not enough or double the prejudice: On being Black and Asian American in 2020 | NBC News
12 multiracial people discuss the messy, complicated conversations they’re having about identity in this political moment. — SAKSHI VENKATRAMAN+ P.R. LOCKHART, NBC NEWS With nationwide protests against police brutality, rising incidents of anti-Asian racism and the selection of Sen. Kamala Harris as the Democratic vice presidential nominee, race relations within and between the Asian American […]
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Little Rock, Arkansas Votes to Close Public Schools Rather Than Integrate | EJI, Equal Justice Initiative
— EJI Staff, EJI, Equal Justice Initiative On September 27, 1958, following violent unrest and political conflict over attempts to integrate Little Rock, Arkansas’s Central High School, city residents voted to close local public schools rather than comply with federal desegregation orders. After the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1954 decision in Brown v. Board of Education, school […]
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