American politicians are now eager to disown a failed criminal-justice system that’s left the U.S. with the largest incarcerated population in the world. But they’ve failed to reckon with history. Fifty years after Daniel Patrick Moynihan’s report “The Negro Family” tragically helped create this system, it’s time to reclaim his original intent.
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‘Hope’ Is a Verb, and It Can Revive Our Democracy
God sent an angel to hope me, and something powerful happened: Folks started getting together.
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Entrepreneur Launches First-Ever Interactive Digital Book Platform for Black Children
Donna Beasley is making history. For the first time in the publishing world, a digital-first book library has been launched to serve Black and Latino children. Kazoom Publishing
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“There are systemic failures”: Broken-windows policing and racial discrimination in Baltimore and beyond
Salon Talks’ Carrie Sheffield sits down with The Grios’ Natasha Alford and civil rights lawyer Paul Prestia
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Leaving Home to Go Home
Yaa Gyasi’s ideas about fiction are suffused with her lifelong attention to the fluctuating shadows that race casts on American life.
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The ‘Ground’ in ‘Stand Your Ground’ Means Any Place a White Person Is Nervous
[two_fifth padding=”0 25px 0 10px”]BY Patricia J. Williams | PUB The Nation He looked dangerous. He looked like a suspect. He looked like he was reaching for a weapon. The officer feared for his life.[/two_fifth][three_fifth_last padding=”0 0px 0 10px”] This familiar litany was recited on the news more than once in this vexed summer—a time weighted […]
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Will Simone Manuel Inspire More Black Children to Swim?
Gretchen Reynolds/ | The New York Times “I don’t think any of them knew how to swim,” Ms. Williams said. “And they were afraid of the water and afraid for their kids.” Ms. Williams, 45, and her daughter are African-American, as were most of the other families at the swimming class. While Bailey, now almost […]
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The Fight In Claressa Shields
During the 2012 London Olympics, Claressa Shields stood in the ring, stone-faced and focused.
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A ‘Sex and the City’ for African Viewers
Let’s get this out of the way up front: “An African City,” the steamy Ghanaian web series about five young women looking for love in Accra, is an unabashed rip-off of “Sex and the City.”
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Grandparents or parents? Coverage of Simone Biles shows that we still don’t know how to talk about adoption
A commentator said Biles’s parents were “NOT her parents;” Twitter revealed that adoption is still cloaked in shame.
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