In her new book “White Space, Black Hood,” author Sheryll Cashin makes a compelling case for how segregated U.S. cities are organized as a residential caste system.
Racism
The #BlackLivesMatter protests in 2020 sparked hard conversations within immigrant communities on how internalized biases based on skin-color remain prevalent.
Opinion | Racial Justice | Gun Violence | #BlackLivesMatter | Black Lives Matter | Police Brutality | Minneapolis | Minneapolis Police Department | Racial Equity | Daunte Wright | George Flyod
No more reforms. It’s time for true transformation.
Opinion | Gun Violence | Misogyny | Georgia | Asian Americans | API Stories | Atlanta | Atlanta Spa Shootings | Mass Shooting
A Korean-American organizer in Georgia reflects on the Atlanta spa shootings, and how the shooter was motivated by an American legacy of racialized misogyny and fetishization.
Whenever I am faced with emotional ambivalence, or a sense of duty to others is in competition with my own emotional needs, I ask, “What would a white woman do?”
When Black counter-mapping exposes the how and where of racism, in accessible visual form, that information gains new power to spur social change.
Raising resilient, anti-racist children means having conversations about racial injustice.
This trope will persist as long as anti-Blackness persists.
Black professionals share what kind of support they need from their peers to overcome racial bias in the workplace.
Opinion | Racial Justice | Democracy | White Nationalism | White Supremacy | Donald Trump | United States
This country was founded on violence and desecration. If you want it to be better, prove it.
Health inequity for Black people in the U.S. is not a new phenomenon. But COVID-19 shined a light on the problem—and it’s costing lives.
Freedom on the Move is a database collecting these ads, which help form a more complete picture of slavery and the enslaved.
“If this moment can be sustained through further conversations, I think there can be a breakthrough.”
Cellphone videos of vigilante violence and fatal police encounters should be viewed with the solemn reserve of lynching photographs.
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