Sixty-three years after the Supreme Court’s ruling in Brown v. Board of Education, many schools across the country either remain segregated or have re-segregated.
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Why Are American Prisons So Afraid of This Book? | The New York Times
“Some prison officials are determined to keep the people they lock in cages as ignorant as possible about the racial, social and political forces that have made the United States the most punitive nation on earth…”
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Don’t Call It Street Style | The New York Times
This year, 21 photographers captured the ways we present ourselves to the world.
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How the news media distorts black families | The Washington Post
A new study shows outlets from Fox to CNN to the New York Times are guilty of misrepresentation.
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This Young Man Is a Change Agent | Black Enterprise
Former high school student flips the rules by developing school-wide We Dine Together program.
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Sheila Oliver becomes New Jersey’s first Black lieutenant governor | New York Amsterdam News
She has more than a dozen years of legislative experience, serving in the lower house of the New Jersey Legislature since 2004.
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How it became a crime to be poor in America | The Guardian
In the United States, a system of modern peonage – essentially, a government-run loan shark operation – has been going on for years
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Detroit: From Motor City to Housing Incubator | The New York Times
The 2008 financial crisis and 2013 city bankruptcy gutted Detroit’s housing market. Now, Detroit is experimenting with unorthodox ways to get people to buy homes and renovate houses that would be vacant otherwise.
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Raising a black son in the US: ‘He had never taken a breath, and I was already mourning him’ | The Guardian
Even before her son was born, Jesmyn Ward was preoccupied with one thing – how she would prepare him for survival
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In St. Louis, This Woman Is Making A Change One Meal At A Time | Huffington Post
Mama Cat is one of the many people still doing the work post-Ferguson.
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