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(2012) “The problem in Mississippi isn’t that too few Negroes can vote, it’s that too many whites can”
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Roald Dahl’s Widow Says ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’ Hero Was Supposed to be Black | The New York Times
The widow and the biographer of the beloved British children’s writer Roald Dahl told the BBC in an interview this week that Charlie Bucket, the young boy whose life is changed by a golden ticket in “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,” was originally supposed to be black.
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How ‘The Snowy Day’ — on a postage stamp — can help us rethink race in America | The Washington Post
“Consumers of these racist ideas… have been led to believe there is something wrong with Black people, and not the policies that have enslaved, oppressed, and confined so many Black people.”
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‘The Way to Survive It Was to Make A’s’ | The New York Times Magazine
They were the first black boys to integrate the South’s elite prep schools. They drove themselves to excel in an unfamiliar environment. But at what cost?
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The ‘slave block’ in a town in Virginia: should it stay or should it go? | The Guardian
A onetime site of slave sales in Fredericksburg has provoked a fierce debate. This is not a monument, it’s a piece of history – but should it be removed from view?
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This black doctor faced down an angry white mob storming his house — and was acquitted of murder | Timeline
Ossian Sweet defended his family, and was arrested for it
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The Hoods Are Off | The Atlantic
The “Unite the Right” gathering wasn’t a Klan rally at all. It was a pride march.
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The Myth of Reverse Racism | The Atlantic
The idea of white victimhood is increasingly central to the debate over affirmative action.
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Google, Bryan Stevenson Launch Website Uncovering History of Lynchings in America – Atlanta Black Star
Before police shootings and mass incarceration beset Black America, the grotesque specter of brutalized Black bodies terrorized communities throughout the South, which struggled to deal with the problem of lynching.
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Two Nooses Discovered at Smithsonian Museums This Week – Hyperallergic
“Today’s incident is a painful reminder of the challenges that African Americans continue to face,” said NMAAHC Founding Director Lonnie Bunch.
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