Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: Sports Taught America That ‘Bigotry Is Not a Cool Thing’ – Dave Zirin / The Nation
The sports legend sits down with the Nation’s Dave Zirin. Watch the video, and listen to the conversation.
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Obama as folk hero: To be what he’s trying to be – black, idealistic and president – is nothing less than superhuman – Erin Aubry Kaplan / Salon
On the Beat of Black Lives and Bloodshed – Trymaine Lee / NYT
The soul songs that saved me: Sexuality, the South, sadness, meet Al Green and Aretha – Rashod Ollison / Salon
The Defender: How the Legendary Black Newspaper Changed America – Ethan Michaeli
“An extraordinary history…Deeply researched, elegantly written…a towering achievement that will not be soon forgotten.” —Brent Staples, New York Times Book Review Giving voice to the…
Sundance Roars for a Black Film, and Fox Searchlight Bids $17 Million – Brooks Barnes / NYT
All Hollowed Out ( The lonely poverty of the white working class) – Victor Tan Chen / The Atlantic
North Carolina voter-ID case could have ramifications across U.S. – Sari Horwitz / Wash Post
The Disappearance of a Distinctively Black Way to Mourn – Tiffany Stanley / The Atlantic
Five myths about Reconstruction – James W. Loewen / Wash Post
The Oscars and Hollywood’s Race Problem – Roxanne Gray / NYT
Stan Grant’s speech on racism and the Australian dream goes viral – Melissa Davey / theguardian
Barack Obama’s Irrefutable Victory for Racial Justice – Algernon Austin / Nation
A tale of two towns reveals tipping point for America’s suburbs – Henry Gass / Christian Sci Monitor
The Moynihan Report Resurrected – Sam Klug / Dissent
Reverend Barber’s Blueprint for Reconstructing a Racist America – Rev. William J. Barber / Alternet
Race-Baiter – How the Media Wields Dangerous Words to Divide a Nation – Eric Deggans
Gone is the era of Edward R. Murrow and Walter Cronkite, when news programs fought to gain the trust and respect of a wide spectrum…
Past Voices – My Dungeon Shook: Letter To My Nephew…. James Baldwin (1924 -1987)
The Fire Next Time is a book by James Baldwin. It contains two essays: “My Dungeon Shook — Letter to my Nephew on the One…
President Obama, Please Come to Flint – Michael Moore / AlterNet
‘Whiteness History Month’ Stirs Up Controversy At Oregon College – Michael Mclaughlin / Huff Post
The unbearable whiteness of Hollywood: The Academy should be ashamed—but the problem is bigger than the Oscars – Jack Mirkinson / Salon
America’s Other Original Sin – Rebecca Onion / Slate
Why Precisely Is Bernie Sanders Against Reparations? Ta-Nihisi Coates / The Atlantic
For Martin Luther King’s Birthday, Black Leaders as Obituaries Portrayed Them – Sam Roberts / NYT
An Open letter to President Obama: Support for HBCUs is an Imperative – Ronald J. Sheehy
January 18, 2016 Dear President Obama: As a journalist and observer of African American affairs, I have reviewed your statements and plans to address issues…
White Christians need to act more Christian than white – Jim Wallis / Wash Post
Fear of a Black Quarterback (Cam Newton) – Tommy Craggs / Slate
Structural Racism Needs to Be Debated, Too – Jamil Smith / New Republic
Texas marks racial slaughter more than a century later -Tim Madigan / Wash Post
The 1910 Slocum Massacre: An Act of Genocide in East Texas (True Crime) – E.R. Bills
In late July 1910, a shocking number of African Americans in Texas were slaughtered by white mobs in the Slocum area of Anderson County and…
When Anger Trumped Progress (Reconstruction 1865-1872) – Jon Grinspan / Wash Post
