Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings is a Grammy-nominated R&B band from Brooklyn. Their groove is funky like James Brown’s. Jones’ gyrations are as wild and ferocious as Tina Tuner’s.
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Black Incarceration hasn’t been this low in a generation
Throughout the presidential campaign season, both Hillary Clinton and Bill Clinton have been excoriated for supporting the 1994 Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act, which critics charge is fueling mass incarceration of African Americans.
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Black Lotus Is a Woman’s Search for Racial Identity in a Racist World
One woman’s journey into racial awareness and self-discovery takes readers down a winding road of abuse, pain and, ultimately, redemption.
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The Black Family in the Age of Mass Incarceration
American politicians are now eager to disown a failed criminal-justice system that’s left the U.S. with the largest incarcerated population in the world. But they’ve failed to reckon with history. Fifty years after Daniel Patrick Moynihan’s report “The Negro Family” tragically helped create this system, it’s time to reclaim his original intent.
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‘Hope’ Is a Verb, and It Can Revive Our Democracy
God sent an angel to hope me, and something powerful happened: Folks started getting together.
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Entrepreneur Launches First-Ever Interactive Digital Book Platform for Black Children
Donna Beasley is making history. For the first time in the publishing world, a digital-first book library has been launched to serve Black and Latino children. Kazoom Publishing
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“There are systemic failures”: Broken-windows policing and racial discrimination in Baltimore and beyond
Salon Talks’ Carrie Sheffield sits down with The Grios’ Natasha Alford and civil rights lawyer Paul Prestia
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Leaving Home to Go Home
Yaa Gyasi’s ideas about fiction are suffused with her lifelong attention to the fluctuating shadows that race casts on American life.
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The ‘Ground’ in ‘Stand Your Ground’ Means Any Place a White Person Is Nervous
[two_fifth padding=”0 25px 0 10px”]BY Patricia J. Williams | PUB The Nation He looked dangerous. He looked like a suspect. He looked like he was reaching for a weapon. The officer feared for his life.[/two_fifth][three_fifth_last padding=”0 0px 0 10px”] This familiar litany was recited on the news more than once in this vexed summer—a time weighted […]
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Debate flares after black college students seek a non-white roommate
Three students at the Claremont colleges in Southern California were looking for a fourth this summer to join them in an off-campus house. They added a caveat in parentheses: “POC only,” they said, using a common abbreviation for people of color.
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