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Georgia’s Separate and Unequal Special-Education System
Published: October 5, 2018

Rachel Aviv | October 1, 2018 Issue | The Newyorker A statewide network of schools for disabled students has trapped black children in neglect and isolation. When Seth, who has autism, was four, he was placed in a new school. A family member described …


Which US presidents actually tried to benefit Native Americans? Here’s what history says
Published: September 1, 2017

Edward Mair | August 31, 2017 | The Conversation President Calvin Coolidge meeting with a delegation of Native Americans at the White House. Library of Congress The US president, Donald Trump, spoke in June to a delegation of tribal leaders at the Whit …


Life in Black & White: Poem of the Week – ‘The Death of Slavery’ by William Cullen Bryant
Published: August 19, 2017

Annika Neklason | August 18, 2017 | The Atlantic Poem of the Week This year, in honor of National Poetry Month, we compiled some of the best poems published throughout The Atlantic’s 160-year history… and we didn’t want to stop. Come back every week to …


LIFE iN BLACK AND WHITE (Life iN BAW): There Is No Justice In America For Black People Killed By Cops
Published: June 17, 2017

Julia Craven | 06/16/2017 | The Huffington Post “The system continues to fail black people.” ERIC MILLER / REUTERS Valerie Castile looks at a photo button of her son Philando during a press conference on the state Capitol grounds in Saint Paul, Minneso …


Life in Black and White (Life in BaW): The Forgotten Legacy of Bill Lucas
Published: June 5, 2017

ALEX PUTTERMAN | JUN 4, 2017 | THE ATLANTIC The Atlanta Braves executive became the first black man to run a Major League Baseball team—but few have followed in his footsteps in the last 40 years. Bill Lucas (left) with the Atlanta Braves manager Bobby …


Black and Proud. Even if Strangers Can’t Tell.
Published: April 2, 2017

REBECCA CARROLL | APRIL 1, 2017 | THE NEW YORK TIMES Rachel Levit My 11-year-old is understated, but not shy. He likes to bake, loves video games, is loyal to his friends and, biased as I may be, is a pretty good-looking kid. He gets mad sometimes, tho …


HOW AMERICA BECAME A COLONIAL LEADER IN ITS OWN CITIES
Published: March 18, 2017

CHRIS HAYES | MARCH 2017 | VANITY FAIR Despite increased African-American political power, being black seems as dangerous as ever. In an adaptation from Chris Hayes’s new book, the author, and MSNBC host, examines the system that drives police killings …


A Glimpse Into the Life of a Slave Sold to Save Georgetown
Published: March 13, 2017

Rachel L. Swarns | MARCH 12, 2017 | THE NEW YORK TIMES He was an enslaved teenager on a Jesuit plantation in Maryland on the night that the stars fell. It was November 1833, and meteor showers set the sky ablaze. A photograph of Frank Campbell, one of …


Stop Beating Black Children
Published: March 11, 2017

STACEY PATTON | MARCH 10, 2017 | THE NEW YORK TIMES “This is gonna hurt me more than it hurts you.” My black, middle-class adoptive mother often grumbled these words as she prepared to whup me for getting dirty, mouthing off, rolling my eyes, telling l …


This Stunningly Racist French Novel Is How Steve Bannon Explains The World
Published: March 5, 2017

Paul Blumenthal , JM Rieger | 03/04/2017 | The Huffington Post “The Camp of the Saints” tells a grotesque tale about a migrant invasion to destroy Western civilization. Stephen Bannon, President Donald Trump’s chief strategist and the driving force beh …


United states of prejudice: Claudia Rankine’s powerful interrogations of racism
Published: March 3, 2017

Bernardine Evaristo | 3 March 2017 | The New Statesman Citizen and Don’t Let Me Be Lonely invite us to reframe, reconstitute and rephrase the experience of being a black person in a white-majority country.​ Citizen is an excoriating collection of verse …


John Edgar Wideman Against the World
Published: January 28, 2017

THOMAS CHATTERTON WILLIAMS | JAN. 26, 2017 | The New York Times Late in a career marked by both triumph and tragedy, the fiercely independent author has written a new book exploring the unsettling case of Emmett Till’s father — and the isolation of bla …


What Did Cedric Robinson Mean by Racial Capitalism?
Published: January 28, 2017

ROBIN D. G. KELLEY | January 12, 2017 | BOSTON REVIEW This essay is the introduction to Boston Review’s new print issue, Forum I, titled Race Capitalism Justice. Inspired by Cedric Robinson’s work on racial capitalism, this themed issue is a critical h …


Racial Violence in Black and White
Published: January 8, 2017

Benjamin Balthaser | July 13, 2016 | Boston Review W. E. B. Du Bois in the office of The Crisis, the magazine of the NAACP. Photo: New York Public Library Once again cellphone videos showing white police officers shooting and killing African Americans …


I Was in the Motorcade That Struck and Killed 6-Year-Old Toussaint Birwe
Published: January 6, 2017

HELENE COOPER | JAN. 5, 2017 | The New York Times Times Insider delivers behind-the-scenes insights into how news, features and opinion come together at The New York Times. In this piece, Helene Cooper, The Times’s Pentagon correspondent, explains why …


Now Is the Time to Talk About What We Are Actually Talking About
Published: December 4, 2016

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | December 2, 2016 | The New Yorker In the wake of the election, we must resist the slightest extension in the boundaries of what is right and just. PHOTOGRAPH BY LIVIO MANCINI / REDUX America has always been aspirational to me …


Autistic black teen got lost running a 5K – and was assaulted by a man who feared getting mugged
Published: November 1, 2016

Amy B. Wang | 01 November 2016  The Independent Chase Coleman’s mother was waiting for him near a reservoir she knew the runners would pass – but he never appeared Chase Coleman, a 15-year-old student in Syracuse, New York Clarisse Coleman For more tha …


Looking Down on Black America
Published: September 5, 2016

RON CHRISTIE | SEPT. 5, 2016 | The New York Times Donald J. Trump officially lost me early on the morning of Aug. 25. I was already irked by my party’s presidential nominee. A week before he had asked African-American voters to consider his candidacy b …


The Racist History of Portland, the Whitest City in America
Published: July 24, 2016

 Alana Semuels | Jul 22, 2016 | The Atlantic  It’s known as a modern-day hub of progressivism, but its past is one of exclusion. A Ku Klux Klan March in Ashland, Oregon (Date unknown; estimated to be from the 1920s) PORTLAND, Ore.— Victor Pierce has wo …


Racial Violence in Black and White
Published: July 17, 2016

Benjamin Balthaser | July 13, 2016 | Boston Review W. E. B. Du Bois in the office of The Crisis, the magazine of the NAACP. Photo: New York Public Library Once again cellphone videos showing white police officers shooting and killing African Americans …


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