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The economic inequalities that stem from slavery have contributed to the health dispartities experienced by the black community in the age of a pandemic.
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What will it take for Black girls to exist as children on and off screen, without making them into adults to justify violence against them?
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The best analogue to the current moment is the first and most consequential American racial awakening—Reconstruction in 1868. The story of that awakening offers a guide, and a warning.
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After months of Donald Trump recycling Fox News lines equating those protesting racial injustice to domestic terrorists, the president’s acting Department of Homeland Security secretary appeared on Tucker Carlson’s show to tease the department’s mass-arrest plan.
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A passed resolution aims to address recent systemic issues of segregation and exclusion. It says Black people “have been excluded from full participation in the benefits of citizenship that include voting, employment, housing and health care.”
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This series of six paintings and three collages is the response of Chicago artist Jennifer Scott to souvenir lynching postcards. She thought about what she did not see in the postcards: the family members left behind to take down the victim, to mourn and bury the remains-if there was enough to bury.
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By Michael Eric Dyson, Op-Ed Contributor, New York Times IT is clear that you, white America, will never understand us. We are a nation of nearly 40 million black souls inside…
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This famous photograph communicated a powerful message about the so-called “peculiar institution”—undermining the notion that slavery was benign.
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Nsenga K. Burton writes about a reality TV series intended to get young men–and their families–back on track.
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With its store of family memories, Arkansas defines home for me. But embracing and claiming it as my own is prickly business. “Home” has closets of skeletons that are anything but comforting: the Lost Cause, Jim Crow, the Ku Klux Klan, lynchings.
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