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At Last, a Black History Museum
When I was sixteen and growing up in New Orleans, I stole a bottle of liquor from a supermarket and was caught. The judge sentenced me to the mild punishment for white teens, a tour of the Louisiana State Penitentiary. “Go up to Angola, son,” he said, “then after that your record’s wapped clean…” By Edward Ball.
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What Happens When the Police Misidentify You as the Dallas Shooter
Mark Hughes took his AR-15 to the Dallas Black Lives Matter protest to make a point about gun rights. The police ended up proving it for him. By Darryl Campbell.
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Stay and Resist
Fifty years after her death, we can still learn from Lillian Smith. By Diane Roberts.
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Philosophers on Rachel Dolezal
Rachel Dolezal, in recent years has portrayed herself physically, and on social media platforms, as a woman of black African-American heritage. However, her parents, who are both white say their daughter is not African-American. With Esa Diaz-Leon, Meena Krishnamurthy, Rebecca Kukla, Charles Mills, Daniel Silvermint, and Quayshawn Spencer.
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An Open Letter to the Woman Who Told My Family to Go Back to China
Dear Madam: Maybe I should have let it go. Turned the other cheek. We had just gotten out of church, and I was with my family and some friends on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. We were going to lunch, trying to see if there was room in the Korean restaurant down the street. You were in a rush. It was raining. Our stroller and a gaggle of Asians were in your way. But I was, honestly, stunned when you yelled at us from down the block, “Go back to China!”
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Is Pokémon Go racist? How the app may be redlining communities of color
PokéStops in communities of color suggest unconscious digital redlining within the game.
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On Parliament-Funkadelic And A Less 'Squeaky-Clean Picture' Of Blackness
I want to take a moment to remember and appreciate Bernie Worrell, the former keyboard star of Parliament-Funkadelic, who has died after being diagnosed with late-stage lung cancer. George Clinton is the front-man and mastermind recognized for building the sprawling musical ensembles of 10-15 musicians at a time known as Parliament-Funkadelic. But Worrell, a co-founder of those groups, chose to play away from the spotlight.
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What Happens When You Google "3 Black Teenagers" vs. "3 White Teenagers"
On Monday, Twitter user @iBeKabir learned that searching the phrase "three black teenagers" on Google images yields almost exclusively mugshots of black teens. Curious, @iBeKabir says, "Let's just change the color" and swaps out "black" for "white." What appears is a sea of stock photos of blue-blooded white teenagers looking like they're having some good, clean fun.
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Police Officer Is Acquitted of All Charges in Freddie Gray Case
Officer Edward M. Nero’s trial in Baltimore over the arrest of Mr. Gray, a black man who died of injuries sustained in custody, renewed questions over policing in minority neighborhoods. Five other officers face charges.
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In a digital archive of fugitive slave ads, a new portrait of slavery emerges
With Freedom on the Move, historians hope to reveal patterns of escape and capture, while giving anyone the chance to learn about the individual heroism of runaway slaves.
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The Big Black Lady At The End Of The Table
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Racially Charged Testimony Helped Put Duane Buck on Death Row. Will the Supreme Court Step In?
There is no question that Duane Buck is responsible for the double murder of his ex-girlfriend and her friend in Houston, Texas, on July 30, 1995. That morning, Debra Gardner was at home with her two kids and three friends, including Buck’s stepsister, when Buck stormed into the home armed with a shotgun and a rifle. He began shooting: He fired at one of the friends and missed; he shot his stepsister point blank in the chest (she survived); and he fatally wounded...
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Did Blacks Really Endorse the 1994 Crime Bill?
Instead of being the unintended consequence of the democratic process at work, punitive crime policy is a result of a process of selectively hearing black voices on the question of crime.
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Black Lives Matter Toronto speaks out on controversy over 'cuss/kill' tweet
Yusra Khogali says a tweet she wrote months ago has been used to drown out and "de-legitimize" the accomplishments of the Black Lives Matter movement in Toronto. "Somehow a tweet I wrote out of anger months before our protest began has become a bigger media story than our protest's many and profound accomplishments," Khogali, co-founder of the Toronto chapter of Black Lives Matter, wrote in a Toronto Star column.
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Mapping the Lasting Effects of Redlining
Old federal maps and recent Census data combine to show how today's poverty rates align with racist 1930s mortgaging policies.
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Bill Clinton blasts Black Lives Matter protesters
Former President Bill Clinton faced down protesters angry at the impact his crime reforms of 20 years ago have had on black Americans and defended the record of Hillary Clinton, his wife, who is relying on the support of black voters in her quest for the presidency.
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Black mail carrier handcuffed by NYPD while delivering packages, video shows
Glen Grays, a postal worker in Brooklyn, had his delivery route cut short on St. Patrick’s Day when he was handcuffed by four plainclothes police officers and placed in an unmarked car. Cellphone video filmed by a bystander shows Grays in his postal service uniform, holding a package, when the officers approach him. The video doesn’t show what led up to the encounter.
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Meet the Black Blues Musician Who Befriended the KKK
Daryl Davis, the subject of the controversial documentary ‘Accidental Courtesy,’ opens up about why he’s spent thirty-plus years getting chummy with members of the Ku Klux Klan. For decades, blues musician Daryl Davis has been raising eyebrows with his unconventional hobby: befriending and converting bigoted members of the Ku Klux Klan, whose white hoods he symbolically collects along the way.
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All Def Digital Rolls Out the Black Carpet
Russell Simmons’s new-media company hosts its own movie-awards show, a D.I.Y. response to the #OscarsSoWhite campaign.
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NSFW How America Bought and Sold Racism, and Why It Still Matters
Today, very few white Americans openly celebrate the horrors of black enslavement—most refuse to recognize the brutal nature of the institution or actively seek to distance themselves from it... By Lisa Hix.
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