This week, we’re sharing stories from Mitchell S. Jackson, Nikole Hannah-Jones, Melissa Fay Greene, Luke Harding, and Irina Dumitrescu.
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
This week, we’re sharing stories from Nikole Hannah-Jones and The New York Times Magazine Staff, Melissa del Bosque, Nitasha Tiku, Sarah Gilman, and Tift Merritt.
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Our Democracy’s Founding Ideals Were False When They Were Written. Black Americans Have Fought to Make Them True.
As part of the New York Times Magazine‘s 1619 package commemorating the 400th anniversary of the beginning of slavery in America, Nikole Hannah Jones writes about the crucial influence of black Americans — through resistance, and a never ending fight for equal rights for all — on democracy in this country. “More than any other […]
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
This week, we’re sharing stories from Ta-Nehisi Coates; Nikole Hannah-Jones; Mark Collette, David Hunn, and Mike Hixenbaugh; Natalie Kitroeff and Victoria Kim; and Robert Minto.
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An Ode to Black Families: A Reading List
This narrative of the black family in America always been inadequate. It has never told the full story of what I know about black love.
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An Uncomfortable Truth
Nikole Hannah-Jones explores the rhetoric of Donald Trumps’s appeals to black voters and calls on the Democratic Party to stop taking Black support for granted.
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‘Apostrophes’: Nikole Hannah-Jones on Race, Education and Inequality, at Longreads Story Night
Video: An incredibly moving piece by The New York Times Magazine writer.