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The Black Actress Who Refused To Pass

Jasmin Darznik Hollywood Progressive
Her name was Fredi Washington and she descended on Hollywood with a burning mission: to redefine white America’s image of African American women.

Does Classics Have a Future?

Najee Olya Los Angeles Review of Books
The academic discipline of classics is facing profound challenges from scholars that are looking to renovate its traditional focus on the "whiteness" of its subject. This study is an expression of that challenge.

St. Louis Prosecutor Has "Long Standing and Personal Bias"

Jamelle Bouie Slate
Demonstrators massed in Clayton, Missouri Thursday, August 21st, to demand a Special Prosecutor investigate the police killing of Ferguson teenager Mike Brown. They charged St. Louis County Prosecutor Robert McCulloch has a long-standing and personal bias in favor of the police and should be removed from the investigation. Also on Thursday, NAACP President Cornell William Brooks said, "It is impossible to believe" McCulloch can be "unbiased in this case."