Poet Claudia Rankine’s ‘genius grant’ win is a victory for African Americans. But there’s something devastating about the context in which it was awarded
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Historic Black School defaced with ‘White Power’ and Nazi Graffiti
A historic one-room school house that once served as a segregated place of learning for black children in Loudoun County was defaced Friday night with the Nazi swastika and references to “white power”.
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100 Best Nonfiction Books: No 36 – Black Boy: A Record of Childhood and Youth by Richard Wright (1945)
This influential memoir of a rebellious southern boyhood vividly evokes the struggle for African American identity in the decades before civil rights
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A Social-Justice Agenda for Community College
Eloy Oakley sees expanding access to traditionally underserved communities as an economic imperative for the state and nation.
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‘I Felt My Blackness Being Chipped Away Bit by Bit’
My colleague Ta-Nehisi spoke last night with French journalist Iris Deroeux about his time living in Paris and more broadly about race in France compared to the U.S.:
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“I Am Not Your Negro” film based on James Baldwin book
One of the most artistic and daring political statements at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), was the world premiere of Haitian-born Raoul Peck’s I Am Not Your Negro, based on James Baldwin’s unfinished book Remember This House.
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The Forgotten Providers
Home-care workers are increasingly vital to the future of our health-care system, but the problems they face are rooted in a racist and sexist history.
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Baltimore vs. Marilyn Mosby | The New York Times Magazine
In the midst of a national crisis of police violence, Baltimore’s state’s attorney gambled that prosecuting six officers for the death of Freddie Gray would help heal her city. She lost much more than just the case.
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Black Lives Matter – Except Biram Dah Ould Abeid’s
Deafening silence greets Mauritanian anti-slavery activist’s three-year prison sentence.
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‘Allowing America to Confront Its Tortured Racial Past’
[two_fifth padding=”0 35px 0 10px”]‘ALLOWING AMERICA TO CONFRONT ITS TORTURED RACIAL PAST’ BY Clare Foran PUB The Atlantic [/two_fifth][three_fifth_last padding=”0 0px 0 10px”][perfectpullquote align=”full” cite=”” link=”” color=”” class=”” size=”16″]How the National Museum of African American History and Culture recounts black history in the United States[/perfectpullquote]The Smithsonian Institution museums that dot the National Mall in Washington, D.C. […]
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