Category: Race

By Tiffany Mitchell Patterson, YES! Magazine I’ll never forget a student’s response when I asked during a middle school social studies class what they knew about Black history: “Martin Luther King freed the slaves.” Martin Luther King Jr. was born in 1929, more than six decades after the time of enslavement. To me, this comment […]

The financial guru and entrepreneurship coach launched #MyBlackReceipt to document the support of Black-owned businesses. By Carron J. Phillips, Deadspin Oklahoma State’s Mike Gundy was just the tip of the iceberg. One of the benefits from this recent moment of “awakening” and “convenient consciousness” that’s spread across the county the last few months, is that people […]

By Eric W. Dolan, Raw Story A 69-year-old man in Houston, Texas, was recently charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon after he allegedly shot at two teens after confronting them over a Black Lives Matter shirt, according to ABC 13 Eyewitness News. Investigators said that the suspect, Santiago Fernandez, questioned two Black teens about […]

How a scholarship helped — and didn’t help — descendants of victims of the 1923 Rosewood racial massacre. By Jordannah Elizabeth, New York Amsterdam News Many states in America are moving into “Phase 2” of reopening. With the utmost respect to those who have lost family members and have been furloughed and laid off, I […]

The writer and activist has the painful, powerful words for this political moment. America just needs to heed them. By Raoul Peck, The Atlantic “There are days—this is one of them—when you wonder what your role is in this country and what your future is in it. How, precisely, are you going to reconcile yourself […]

By Jeremy Hogan, The Bloomingtonian A Bloomington resident said he was assaulted, injured and threatened with a noose by a group of men on public property near the shore of Lake Monroe on Saturday the 4th of July. Saturday just before 7:52 p.m. Vauhxx Booker, a prominent voice for civil rights in Bloomington, and member of […]

Amid a national accounting over racism after George Floyd’s death, at least a dozen schools have revoked admissions offers to incoming students. By Dan Levin, The New York Times A star high school athlete recruited to play football for Cornell University will no longer be attending the school after a Snapchat video of him using […]

A century after the publication of Darkwater, its message has never been more relevant. By Chad Williams, The Atlantic W. E. B. Du Bois was torn between hope and rage. Following the First World War, challenges to colonialism in Africa and Asia, revolutionary labor movements, demands for women’s rights and universal suffrage, and the growth of […]

From ‘Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song’ in 1971 to Spike Lee’s ‘Malcom X’ in 1992. By Nelson George, The Village Voice 1971  ■ MELVIN VAN PEEBLES’s Sweet Sweetback’s Baad­asssss Song premieres in Detroit in March, signaling a new direction in African American film and culture. Directed guerrilla-style in Watts, it ridicules SIDNEY POITIER’s ultra-assimilated image, instigates Holly­wood’s blaxploitation era, and projects […]

Black Lives Matter has underlined the crucial role played by black photographers. We asked eight British leaders in their field to pick a favourite image from their archives – and explain why it’s so important to them By Dennis Morris, The Guardian ‘I’ve taken a lot of flak. But, like the boy, you keep pedalling […]