“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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Oprah’s book club pick: ‘The Underground Railroad,’ by Colson Whitehead
Nobody could wait for Colson Whitehead’s new book — including Oprah, so here it is, a month early.
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Black Lives Matter Releases Policy Agenda
It has been nearly two years since the killing of Michael Brown Jr. by a police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, touched off outrage and a national movement to save black lives from state violence. Now, just days ahead of the anniversary of Brown’s death, a coalition of organizations that grew from that uprising have launched a policy agenda calling for deep criminal justice and policing reforms.
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American Christianity has long struggled to be on the right side of Racial Justice
People of faith aren’t exempt from facing each generation’s political and ideological battles.
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Boko Haram Survivors Are Starving To Death As Aid Falls Short
“I have never heard such fear and desperation. This is a new terrible.”
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Medical Schools Must Play A Role in Addressing Racial Disparities
STAT columnist Jennifer Adaeze Okwerekwu recently urged physicians to ask how they can ensure that their patients can “thrive in an America free of legalized terror and intolerance.”
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Federal Appeals Court Strikes Down North Carolina Voter ID Requirement
A federal appeals court decisively struck down North Carolina’s voter identification law on Friday, saying its provisions deliberately “target African-Americans with almost surgical precision” in an effort to depress black turnout at the polls.
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The Infuriating Reason People With Dark Skin Are At A Greater Risk For Skin Cancer
Perhaps the most common skin-care myth in the Black community is that, because we have more melanin than those with lighter skin, we’re somehow impervious to the sun’s harmful rays. Guess what? This couldn’t be further from the truth.
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A Thorny Question for African American Museum: Whose Story Do We Tell?
“Our museum is built on individual narratives, but you’re just not going to be able to tell everybody’s story,” curator Nancy Bercaw said.
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