“Black folks drive the progressive political power in this country, but rarely benefit from the fruits of our labor. We are launching the Black Futures Lab as a way to mobilize around our needs, hopes and dreams.”
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The Civil Rights Pastor Who Declared ‘I Am a Man’ | The Daily Beast
James Lawson was a Civil Rights icon who saw the need for the fight to include economic inequality. He also unintentionally doomed King by inviting him to Memphis.
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Black People Need More Representation And Fewer ‘Representatives’ | Huffington Post
There’s a difference between having representation and having representatives.
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Ibram Kendi, one of the nation’s leading scholars of racism, says education and love are not the answer | The Undefeated
Founder of new anti-racism center at American University sees impact of policy, culture on black athletes.
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Martin Luther King Jr.’s scorn for ‘white moderates’ in his Birmingham jail letter | The Washington Post
The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. began writing the “Letter From a Birmingham Jail” in the margins of newspapers, on scraps of paper, paper towels and slips of yellow legal paper smuggled into his cell, where he was kept in solitary confinement after being arrested April 12, 1963, on charges of violating Alabama’s law against mass public demonstrations.
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Bessie Rogers and Taylor Rogers | StoryCorps
Retired Memphis, Tennessee sanitation worker Taylor Rodgers and his wife, Bessie, were at the Mason Temple on April 3, 1968 when Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his famous speech “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop”.
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Does the White Working Class Really Vote Against Its Own Interests? | Politico
Trump’s first year in office revived an age-old debate about why some people choose race over class—and how far they will go to protect the system.
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Zinzi Clemmons: ‘It’s Time For Women of Color…to Divest From Lena Dunham’ | Jezebel
Writer Zinzi Clemmons, author of What We Lose, has announced that she will no longer be writing for Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner’s online feminist weekly newsletter Lenny Letter because, she says, of Dunham and her friends’ racism which was “well-known” prior to their fame. “She cannot have our words if she cannot respect us,” she writes.
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Review: ‘Mudbound’ Is a Racial Epic Tuned to Black Lives, and White Guilt | The New York Times
“Mudbound” is a movie about how things change — slowly, unevenly, painfully. It is also, as the title suggests, about how things don’t change, about the stubborn forces of custom, prejudice and power that lock people in place and impede social progress. …”
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I was devastated about Las Vegas — but quietly relieved that the shooter was white | The Washington Post
Minorities in America know that there will be fallout if a killer is black, Hispanic or Muslim.
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