In Memphis, the existence of racial terror and trauma goes back as far as history can remember. Back to stolen lands of indigenous people and the stolen lives of African slaves. Back to deadly white race riots after the Civil War...
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From its foundation in the 1920s, the South African Communist Party took up the fight against racism as a central part of its political vision. The party’s heroic record in the anti-apartheid movement has now received the historical treatment it deserves.
Regardless of whether economic conditions are good or bad, Black jobseekers are less likely to find work.
A few recent series have notably nuanced depictions of brown teens. This is a promising development. (Those racist reactions? Not so much.)
White representatives vote to create white-appointed court system for Blackest city in America
How U.S. history textbooks and prominent American universities justified slavery, perpetuated racial stereotypes and promoted white supremacy.
John H. Bracey Jr.—an architect of Black studies—who helped to create one of the nation’s first doctoral programs in African American studies at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, died over the weekend. Bracey was 81.
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The discipline emerged from Black struggle. Now the College Board wants it to be taught with barely any mention of Black Lives Matter.
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