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When Black Voters Exited Left
Matthew Delmont | 31 March 2016 | The Atlantic What African Americans lost by aligning with the Democratic Party Days before the 1960 election, Coretta Scott King received a call from then-candidate John F. Kennedy while her husband was in a Georgia jail, charged with trespassing after leading a sit-in demonstration against segregation in Atlanta. “This must be … [Read more...] about When Black Voters Exited Left
The Untold Stories Of Black Girls
Anya Kamenetz | March 23, 2016 | NPR The video, taken at Spring Valley High School in Columbia, S.C., went viral last fall: A school safety officer flips a desk to the floor with a girl seated in it, then flings her across the floor. The student is African-American; the officer is white. Ultimately, the officer was fired based on the fallout surrounding that video. … [Read more...] about The Untold Stories Of Black Girls
When Integrating A School, Does It Matter If You Use Class Instead Of Race?
Anya Kamenetz | February 29, 2016 | NPR "Stronger Together" is not the name of the latest social-media fitness app. It's a grant proposed in President Obama's new budget, reviving an idea that hasn't gotten much policy attention in decades: diversity in public schools. If the request is approved, $120 million will go to school districts for programs intended to make … [Read more...] about When Integrating A School, Does It Matter If You Use Class Instead Of Race?
Why Oxford has so few black students, and who is to blame
Tim Wigmore | 1 February 2016 | THE NEW STATESMAN In 2014, a black student applying to Oxford was half as likely to get in as a white student. Whose fault is this? David Cameron is angry. Just 27 black students were admitted to Oxford in 2014, prompting the Prime Minister to rail against the university’s “ingrained, institutional and insidious” racism. Just 1 per … [Read more...] about Why Oxford has so few black students, and who is to blame
Race Is in the Air We Breathe and the Water We Drink: The Moral Failure in Flint
Jim Wallis Christian leader for social change; President and Founder @Sojourners |01/28/2016 | THE HUFFINGTON POST How would you feel if you realized your children's water was being poisoned, and your government didn't seem to care? That's the story of the parents of 8,000 mostly poor and black children in Flint, Mich., (which means most all of the children in urban Flint) … [Read more...] about Race Is in the Air We Breathe and the Water We Drink: The Moral Failure in Flint
‘This Song Is Uncomfortable’: Macklemore On The Contradictions Of ‘White Privilege’
Audie Cornish | 29 January 2016 | NPR Listen to the story Macklemore knows what you think of him. The Seattle rapper born Ben Haggerty told me that he spent the first few days following the release of his new song, "White Privilege II," reading the thinkpieces that greeted — or bemoaned — its arrival. And then he had to take a break, take Twitter off his phone. Not a … [Read more...] about ‘This Song Is Uncomfortable’: Macklemore On The Contradictions Of ‘White Privilege’
The Wall Dancer
Nick Paumgartren | January 11, 2016 Issue | THE NEW YORKER Ashima Shiraishi’s route to the top. The mother and father of Ashima Shiraishi, a fourteen-year-old New Yorker who has been called the most talented rock climber in the world, met in fashion school, in Tokyo, in the early seventies. Hisatoshi Shiraishi, the father, was from the southern island of Shikoku, and … [Read more...] about The Wall Dancer
Oliver Letwin: Newly-released papers reveal minister’s ‘appalling’ attitude towards black rioters
Cahal Milmo, Oliver Wright, Nigel Morris | 30 December 2015 | The Independent Minister urged to apologise after archive reveals ‘disgusting’ advice delivered to Mrs Thatcher One of David Cameron’s most influential ministers is involved in a racism row, as the release of government papers kept secret for 30 years have revealed his “appalling” and “disgusting” attitudes … [Read more...] about Oliver Letwin: Newly-released papers reveal minister’s ‘appalling’ attitude towards black rioters
My husband the warlord: an extract from the memoir of Joseph Kony’s wife
Evelyn Amony | Tuesday 22 December 2015 | The Guardian Abducted when she was 11 years old, Evelyn Amony spent more than a decade at the brutal LRA leader’s side. In her new book, she recounts her past Joseph Kony’s Lord’s Resistance Army abducted Evelyn Amony a few months before she turned 12 years old, in August 1994. Trained as a child soldier by … [Read more...] about My husband the warlord: an extract from the memoir of Joseph Kony’s wife
Our brothers’ keepers: Harry Leslie Smith visits the “Jungle” in Calais
Harry Lreslie Smith, 12 December 2015, New Statesman In early November, I took the Eurostar from St Pancras in London to Calais. We left at dawn and a pallid fog hung across the English sky like white bedding sheets strung across row house laundry lines. The other passengers in my carriage wore expensive suits and looked preoccupied with sales quotas, market … [Read more...] about Our brothers’ keepers: Harry Leslie Smith visits the “Jungle” in Calais