Public Advocate Letitia James released the 2017 Worst Landlords Watchlist, an annual database of the worst landlords in New York City.
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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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Spike Lee discusses terrorism, race and his work at Virginia Film Festival | Richmond Times-Dispatch
“Terrorism is terrorism,” Lee said Saturday afternoon just prior to screening his 1997 documentary, “4 Little Girls,” for a standing-room-only audience at the Paramount Theater.
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Winnie Mandela the movie: ‘She was volatile and uncontrollable, and that was punished’ | The Guardian
An award-winning documentary demystifies the image of the activist as ‘sinner’ to Nelson the saint, as part of a wave of films in African cinema breaking with the status quo on gender, race and politics
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The History of Russian Involvement in America’s Race Wars | The Atlantic
From propaganda posters to Facebook ads, 80-plus years of Russian meddling.
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Five Arrested in Georgia in ‘Heinous’ 1983 Killing of Black Man | The New York Times
“If the crime happened today, it would be prosecuted as a hate crime…”
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Mississippi Textbooks Are Keeping Students Ignorant of the Civil Rights Movement | Truthout
Before 2011, Mississippi public school students weren’t required to learn about the Civil Rights Movement at all. The previous social studies standards mentioned the phrase “civil rights” just three times in the 305-page document. It refers to the “Civil Rights Movement” once.
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Fannie Lou Hamer at 100: The Speeches That Made Her a Civil-Rights Icon | Time
As many NFL players across the United States make the decision to kneel or face away from the flag as the National Anthem plays before their games, as part of a protest movement that began as a statement about the belief that the U.S. does not live up to its ideals for African-Americans, many have found new meaning in the words of an icon of an earlier wave of protest.
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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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In an Era of Strife, Museums Collect History as It Happens | The New York Times
Though curators have long secured select artifacts whose significance was immediately apparent, museum experts say the scope of what the African American museum and others now call “rapid response collecting” has grown significantly in recent years.
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