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Op-Ed: California’s forgotten slave history | Los Angeles Times

January 21, 2020African American History, Black History

Separated by just 60 miles along the I-10, Los Angeles and San Bernardino feel worlds apart. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] The former boasts some of the richest urban developments and residential pockets in the nation. The latter — a “broken city,” as this newspaper put it in 2015 — struggled through five years of bankruptcy and municipal […]

School district faces $12M lawsuit over ‘racist’ photo of African American students | AJC.com

January 14, 2020January 14, 2020Racism

Parents plan to sue a New York school district for $12 million after one of its teachers allegedly wrote the phrase “Monkey do” above a photograph of four African American students who attended a class trip to the Bronx Zoo in November. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] A science teacher at Longwood High School took the photo of […]

Her Son Was Careful to Avoid Police Officers. Then He Was Killed by One. | The New York Times (2008)

January 14, 2020January 14, 2020Criminal Justice Reform, Police Brutality

He drove the speed limit. He kept his car in good repair. Instead of shorts or T-shirts, he wore Ralph Lauren dress shirts. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] For years before he was fatally shot by a Dallas police officer who says she mistook him for a burglar in his own home, Botham Shem Jean had gone out […]

Don’t tell me I’m ‘too pretty to be Aboriginal’. It’s not a compliment; it’s racism | The Guardian

January 13, 2020January 13, 2020Colorism

Aboriginal women are all too familiar with this phrase. In her new documentary, Sasha Sarago investigates the racism behind it. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] I was 11 years old when my best friend’s sister approached me at her birthday party. She asked me what my nationality was; when I told her, she replied, “You’re too pretty to […]

Canada’s first and only all-black battalion honoured with special stamp | Global News

January 9, 2020January 9, 2020African American Veterans

Canada Post unveiled a limited edition stamp in Cherrybrook, N.S. on Tuesday to commemorate the 100th anniversary of black men who formed a segregated unit and fought during the First World War. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] The company said the stamp is a chance to honour the contributions of black Canadians. “This stamp honours men who stepped […]

Does the United States Owe Reparations to the Descendants of Enslaved People? | The New York Times

January 8, 2020January 8, 2020African American History, Reparations

The idea of economic amends for past injustices and persistent disparities is getting renewed attention. What do you think should happen? [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] In 1988, President Ronald Reagan sought to “right a grave wrong” by signing legislation that apologized for the government’s forced relocation of 120,000 Japanese-Americans during World War II and established a $1.25 […]

The Privilege of White Victimhood | Dame Magazine

January 6, 2020January 6, 2020Race, Race Relations ...

We’re in the grips of a peak white-pity party moment. And it has the potential to incite a riot. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] Being an actual victim of anything sucks. This is a thing we are supposed to learn as we grow up. We’re supposed to grow out of the phase where we get jealous of the […]

What everyone should know about Reconstruction 150 years after the 15th Amendment’s ratification | The Conversation

January 5, 2020January 5, 2020African American History, Slavery

I’ll never forget a student’s response when I asked during a middle school social studies class what they knew about black history: “Martin Luther King freed the slaves.” [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] Martin Luther King Jr. was born in 1929, more than six decades after the time of enslavement. To me, this comment underscored how closely Americans […]

White people assume niceness is the answer to racial inequality. It’s not | The Guardian

January 1, 2020January 1, 2020African American Commuities, Race ...

“While most of us see ourselves as ‘not racist’, we continue to reproduce racist outcomes and live segregated lives.” [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] I am white. As an academic, consultant and writer on white racial identity and race relations, I speak daily with other white people about the meaning of race in our lives. These conversations are […]

The Magnolia House used to be a decades-old passion project for one man. Now, someone else shares that dream — his daughter. | Greensboro.com

December 31, 2019December 31, 2019African American History, Black History

GREENSBORO — Natalie Pass Miller loved her life in Atlanta working for the corporate sector. While on a visit back home in 2018, a casual conversation with her dad changed everything. Sam Pass, at one time a fire and safety specialist at Duke University, had spent the past two decades of his off time meticulously […]