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Posted inCurrent Events, History
Tennessee, Goddamn: Memphis Fights To Remove Its Confederate Monuments
The legacy of General Nathan Bedford Forrest has the city going up against the state of Tennessee.
Posted inEditor's Pick
The First White President
In his latest for the Atlantic, Ta-Nehisi Coates posits that white identity politics forms the foundation of Donald Trump’s presidency.
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Forrest the Butcher: Memphis Wants to Remove a Statue Honoring First Grand Wizard of the KKK
The City Council of Memphis, a majority black city that is the 25th largest in the US, wants to remove a statue of Confederate Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest. But the Tennessee legislature requires a governor-appointed commission to approve all changes to military and historical monuments throughout the state. Last year, the commission denied the city’s […]
Posted inWriting
Confronting Wealth and Class Privilege as a Black Professor at a White College
At Buzzfeed, Kiese Laymon tells the story of his early years teaching at an elite liberal arts college in New York.
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Teaching White Students Showed Me The Difference Between Power and Privilege
In a poignant personal essay, Kiese Laymon examines black intergenerational wealth and class privilege.
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A Presumption of Guilt
Bryan Stevenson examines the connection between the modern day death penalty and lynchings of the 19th and 20th centuries.
Posted inArts & Culture, Reading List
More Than a Riot Going On: A ‘Detroit’-Inspired Reading List
The failures of Kathryn Bigelow’s film undercut the fullness, complexity, and beauty of Detroit.
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Do The Right Thing
The newest film of Academy Award winning director Kathryn Bigelow, Detroit, depicts the beginning of the city’s 1967 uprisings. As he examines the film, Detroit-born writer and professor Michael Eric Dyson asks important questions about who can tell what stories and how the lives of black residents in Detroit have changed over the last 50 […]
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The Woman Who Steals Every Scene in “Girls Trip”
BuzzFeed profiles comedian and actress Tiffany Haddish on the eve of her star-making turn in Girls Trip, an ensemble film about four lifelong friends reuniting for a weekend of fun in New Orleans.