African American Communities - KOLUMN Magazine

States With Large Black Populations Are Stingier With Government Benefits – The Atlantic

June 8, 2017African American Economics, African American Education ...

Research suggests that states with homogenous populations are more willing to spend on the safety net than those with higher shares of minorities.

When Black America Was Pro-Police – The Atlantic

May 23, 2017African American Commuities, Crime ...

As crime rose from the late ’60s to the ’90s, so did inner-city support for law-and-order policies.

Spike Lee: ‘Black men are still viewed as predators’ – The Guardian

April 26, 2017African American Commuities, African American Film ...

Twenty-five years after the LA riots, Spike Lee has made a film about Rodney King, whose beating by the police triggered the uprising. Does he think things have improved in the US? ‘Race is always going to be an issue in this country’

Finding the Lost Boyz of Chicago – The Atlantic

April 19, 2017African American Commuities, African American News ...

As part of our series with of interviews with the winners of the The Atlantic’s Renewal Awards, I spoke with LaVonte Stewart, the founder of Lost Boyz Inc., a baseball and softball program that steers children in his Chicago neighborhood away from violence through social-emotional development.

Can Baltimore curtail police killings by defying Trump? – The Guardian

April 12, 2017African American Commuities, Black Crime ...

Kevin Cooper was killed by city police at age 14 in 2006, but his death has vanished into obscurity. Now there’s hope for reform to prevent such cases – if it can withstand Trump’s insistence on ‘law and order’.