This September, outside a boutique store in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn, members of the Well-Read Black Girl book club sat in a misshapen circle of folding chairs on the sidewalk.
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America’s Weaponized Attorneys General | The Atlantic
Both parties have taken the gloves off in the midterm elections as they fight for advantage in more than 30 attorneys-general races across the country.
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Young black Portuguese men take police brutality case to court | Al Jazeera
Six alleged victims say officers beat them until they bled and were bruised and forced them into humiliating positions.
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What if Everyone Voted? | The New York Times
Or at least voted at equal rates.
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She Was Left At a Daycare Doorstep, Now N.C. Woman Is Reconnecting with Biological Parents Thanks to DNA Testing | Atlanta Black Star
A newborn Precious Bradley was left on a daycare doorstep in Greensboro, North Carolina with zero clues or idea of who her biological parents were. All that changed after a night of genealogical digging at the North Carolina A&T library.
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If the Mail Bomber Had Worn an ISIS Hat | The Atlantic
The government rarely charges domestic extremists as terrorists.
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What Happens When a College’s Affirmative-Action Policy Is Found Illegal | The Atlantic
A Supreme Court case found that the University of Michigan was using race in admissions the wrong way. Then the state stepped in, and minority enrollments dropped.
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‘I’m ecstatic’: black liberation prisoner Mike Africa Sr released after 40 years | The Guardian
Member of the radical Philadelphia-based group Move 9, sentenced after violent confrontation with police in 1978, reunited with wife Debbie Africa and son Mike Jr.
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Restoration of Horace Jenkins’ African-American Romeo & Juliet to Premiere in New Orleans and DC | Roger Ebert.com
A few years ago producer Sandra Schulberg told me a mesmerizing story about a film made by the late artist, Horace Jenkins, who died before it’s theatrical release, and whose film lay lost for three decades.
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The Tricky Allure of Becoming a Black American Expatriate | The Atlantic
For generations, African Americans have left the U.S. in search of freedom from racism and oppression. But what do they actually find when they settle overseas?
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