Civil War monuments in the North erased an emancipated Black population. But the Sphinx looked to a new world: an integrated Africa and America.
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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.
Posted inFood, Nonfiction, Quotes
Moonshine: The Black Tradition of Distilling ‘White Whiskey’
If craft food culture looks overwhelmingly white, it’s because black influences have been routinely scrubbed from its history.
Posted inArts & Culture, Current Events, Uncategorized
These Are the Locals Who Get The Story of Charlottesville Right
The historians, activists, reporters, and columnists who tell the complicated and ever-changing story of their own community.
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.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books, Writing
The 1923 Novel That Helps Us Understand Today’s Racial Climate
‘Cane’Â is a series of vignettes about life in rural Georgia told from the point of view of an ambivalently black teacher from the north.
Posted inCurrent Events, Profiles & Interviews, Story
An Unforgiving Legal System Welcomes Black Immigrants to America
The Black Alliance for Just Immigration helps those affected by racial profiling and harsh immigration laws.
Posted inCurrent Events
Zadie Smith Takes on Black Pain With a Light Touch
At Harper’s, Smith doesn’t really feel like she is engaging in her subject matter with much care or heart.
Posted inBlog Post, Reading List
Celebrating a Second Independence Day: A Juneteenth Reading List
Nine stories that explain the fraught history of the holiday, and the need for celebration.Â
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes
In the 1970s, It Was The Police That Made Made Detroit’s Streets Deadly
A special police unit terrorized the innocent and murdered the unarmed in the years after Detroit’s race riots.