Matt Stevens, The New York Times Leah Chase (left) and Jessica B. Harris at Dooky Chase’s in 2018. PHOTO: CEDRIC ANGELES. Featured Image [dropcap]On[/dropcap] July 25, 1946, two black couples were riding in a car in Walton County, Ga., when they were mobbed by a group of white men. They were dragged from the car […]
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Jim Crow’s Last Stand | The Atlantic
The legacy of Jim Crow continues to loom large in the United States. But nowhere is it arguably more evident than in Louisiana. In 1898, a constitutional convention successfully codified a slew of Jim Crow laws in a flagrant effort to disenfranchise black voters and otherwise infringe on their rights. “Our mission was to establish […]
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Ed Dwight Was Set to Be the First Black Astronaut. Here’s Why That Never Happened. | The New York Times
For a brief moment, the civil rights movement and the space race came together.
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About Blackness, Africanness and When It’s Enough | Awesomely Luvvie
Luvvie Ajayi, Awesomely Luvvie Luvvie Ajayi DAMON DAHLEN, HUFFINGTON POST. Featured Image [dropcap]W[/dropcap]hat is Blackness? Is it based on where you’re from? Is it based on your skin tone? Is it based on your heritage? Is it a lived experience? What is BLACKNESS? [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] As someone whose Blackness was questioned loudly because of a […]
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[Video] Collector Dr. Joy Simmons Takes Us Inside Her Art-Filled L.A. Home | The Cut
Dr. Joy Simmons set out in 1992 to design an art-filled home in L.A. in which to raise her two young daughters. She was a practicing radiologist and an art collector, who today has amassed one of the most important collections of African-American art in the country. Joy’s house reflects her passion for her family, […]
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Data of prejudice: the uses and abuses of the science of race | New Statesman
New books by science writer Angela Saini and psychology professor Jennifer Eberhard look at the “scientific” evolution of racism throughout history.
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Memphis black boys, ‘the foremost vulnerable … population in our system,’ are the focus of Ray’s new initiative | Chalkbeat
Laura Faith Kebede, Chalkbeat Superintendent Joris Ray announced an initiative for black boys Monday at the National Civil Rights Museum. . PHOTO: Laura Faith Kebede/Chalkbeat. Featured Image [dropcap]The[/dropcap] Superintendent Joris Ray launched a new initiative Monday that he hopes will help black boys improve their test scores, take more advanced courses, and be on the […]
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‘Harriet’ Trailer: Cynthia Erivo Fights For Freedom as Harriet Tubman in Oscar Hopeful | IndieWire
“Eve’s Bayou” director Kasi Lemmons is behind the camera for this biographical drama about the abolitionist icon.
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Girl, 12, Describes Killing Of a Black Panther Here | The New York Times
— Max H. Seigel, The New York Times About the ArchiveThis is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996. To preserve these articles as they originally appeared, The Times does not alter, edit or update them. Occasionally the digitization process introduces transcription errors […]
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I Wanted to Know What White Men Thought About Their Privilege. So I Asked. | The New York Times Magazine
My college class asks what it means to be white in America — but interrogating that question as a black woman in the real world is much harder to do.
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