A Young Black Girl’s View of Harlem at the Height of the Great Migration – Emily Raboteau / The New Yorker
Mildred Harris was born in South Carolina in 1926. She moved to Harlem as a baby, when her parents, Eddie and Jessie Mae Harris, joined…
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The Enduring Importance of Identity Liberalism – Lovia Gyarkye / New Republic
The Standing Rock Resistance Is Unprecedented (It’s Also Centuries Old) – Leah Donnella / NPR
‘Let’s party like it’s 1933’: Inside the alt-right world of Richard Spencer – John Woodrow Cox / Wash Post
Anti-Defamation League Official: Racist Incidents ‘A Wake-Up Call’ – NPR Staff
Sweeping New Rutgers Report Reveals University’s Ties to Slavery & Displacement of Native Americans – Juan Gonzalez / Democracy Now
A sweeping new report reveals ties to slavery and the displacement of the Native Americans at one of the country’s top colleges. The findings about…
A Harvard professor argues that fixing America’s urban poverty will require a dramatically different approach – Alana Semuels / The Atlantic
Poor, black neighborhoods have persisted in America for decades. And despite a few public-policy efforts to make things better—which include helping families move to other…
Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy by Heather Ann Thompson
A NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST A PUBLISHERS WEEKLY BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR THE FIRST DEFINITIVE HISTORY OF THE INFAMOUS 1971 ATTICA PRISON UPRISING, THE STATE’S VIOLENT…
Postscript: Sharon Jones, 1956-2016 – Amanda Petrusich / The New Yorker
More black people jailed in England and Wales proportionally than in US – Randeep Ramesh / The Guardian
Trump Advisers Call for National Muslim Registry, Echoing Nazis’ Early Steps in Targeting Jews – Steven Rosenfeld / Alternet
Donald Trump Rages, at the Wrong Target- The Editorial Board / NYT
Millions of Americans are justifiably frightened by the tide of racism, anti-Semitism and xenophobia that has swept the country since the election of Donald Trump,…
The love story that changed history: Fascinating photographs of interracial marriage at a time when it was banned in 16 states – Lydia Warren / Daily Mail
Just 45 years ago, 16 states deemed marriages between two people of different races illegal. But in 1967, the U.S. Supreme Court considered the case…
Race/Related: Conversations. Trump Voters. On Race – Rachel L. Swarns / NYT
To resist a Trump presidency, ask: “What would the abolitionists do?” Linda Hirsham / Wash Post
The Identity Politics of Whiteness – Laila Lalami / NYT Magazine
This Wasn’t a Working-Class Revolt. It Was a White Revolt – Tamara Draut / Bill Moyers & Company
Ideología: The Roots of Latino Dissatisfaction – Juhem Navarro-Rivera / Demos
White Nationalists Celebrate ‘an Awakening’ After Donald Trump’s Victory – Alan Rappeport and Noah Weiland / NYT
‘I Am Not Your Negro’ Is A Race Documentary That Should Be Essential Viewing For All Americans – Matthew Jacobs / Huff Post
You won’t find a documentary over the next few months that’s more important than “I Am Not Your Negro.” Raoul Peck uses James Baldwin’s unfinished…
White nationalism, a term once on the fringes, now front and center : What is it? – Joe Sterling / CNN
Why Donald Trump’s election means we must work together for a Third Reconstruction in America – Dr. William J. Barber II / Bill Moyers & Company
The reactionary wave that swept across America with the election of Donald Trump is not an anomaly in our history. It is an all-too-familiar pattern…
2016, Meet 1877: Trump’s Ascendance Is Creepily Like the End of Reconstruction – Barrett Holmes Pitner/ The Daily Beast
Research says there are ways to reduce racial bias. Calling people racist isn’t one of them – German Lopez / Vox
The renowned PBS journalist Gwen Ifill died on Monday, at the age of sixty-one – Jelani Cobb / The New Yorker
Watch RIKERS Documentary – A riveting new film that brings you face to face with what it’s like to be incarcerated in America – Bill Moyers & Company
Rikers Island is New York City’s largest jail. It has also been ranked as one of the 10 worst jails in America. Of the more…
Making America White Again – Toni Morrison / The New Yorker
The choices made by white men, who are prepared to abandon their humanity out of fear of black men and women, suggest the true horror…
In Charleston, Coming to Terms With the Past – Ron Stodghill / NYT
The compulsion to engage the Charleston area’s complex history as a slave-trading center was, for the writer, a visceral thing, akin to the urge to…
Lets Lighten Up – Watch Sugarhill Gang’s Rapturous ‘Rapper’s Delight’ on ‘Conan’ – Jon Blistein / Rolling Stone
On the stage of the legendary Apollo Theater, original members Michael “Wonder Mike” Wright and Guy “Master Gee” O’Brien cruised through portions of their original…
‘Racial Battle Fatigue’ Is Real: Victims of Racial Microaggressions Are Stressed Like Soldiers in War – David Love / Atlanta Black Star
“They Knew What was at Stake”: 2016 Latino Voter Turnout Higher for Clinton Than for Obama / Democracy Now
Fewer people voted in this election than voted in 2012,” notes Juan González, journalist and Democracy Now! co-host, but he argues that data from Latino…
