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How Target Got Cozy With the Cops, Turning Black Neighbors Into Suspects

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands August 26, 2021October 19, 2022

“For decades, Target fostered partnerships with law enforcement unlike those of any other U.S. corporation.”

Posted inArts & Culture, Featured, Highlight, Nonfiction, Quote Posts, Quotes

Black America Unwittingly Provided the Soundtrack to Its Own Displacement

by Aaron Gilbreath February 12, 2020October 19, 2022

American music may be Black music, but it has now become the music of displacement.

Posted inArts & Culture, Books, Nonfiction, Story

Odetta Holmes’ Album One Grain of Sand

by Longreads May 22, 2019October 19, 2022

The singular singer released her groundbreaking album in 1963, the same year as the March on Washington, and used her art and appearance as weapons in the Civil Rights struggle.

Posted inArts & Culture, Nonfiction, Story

A History of American Protest Music: Come By Here

by Tom Maxwell January 10, 2019October 19, 2022

How cultural appropriation and erasure turned an African American spiritual into a white campfire sing-along.

Posted inCulture, Nonfiction, Story

Land Not Theirs

by Madison Davis January 8, 2019October 19, 2022

Reckoning with a religious upbringing means confronting religion’s role in oppressing women and people of color.

Posted inArts & Culture, Books, Nonfiction, Story

Hellhound on the Money Trail

by Longreads December 18, 2018October 19, 2022

Standard recording contracts screwed Bluesmen out of royalties in the early 1900s, and the system was no different when Columbia released “Robert Johnson: The Complete Recordings in 1990.”

Posted inArts & Culture, Nonfiction, Story

Shelved: The Lady of Rage’s Eargasm

by Tom Maxwell December 13, 2018October 19, 2022

Rapper Robin Allen’s hit song bypassed the hip-hop boys club that held her debut solo album back.

Posted inCulture, History, Nonfiction, Quote Posts, Quotes

How One Alabama Sherriff Worked Openly to Oppress People of Color

by Aaron Gilbreath December 5, 2018October 19, 2022

Here’s what voter suppression looked like in Alabama in the middle of the 20th century.

Posted inBooks, History, Nonfiction, Story

Oregon’s Racist Past

by Longreads July 12, 2018October 19, 2022

Starting in the mid-19th century, and extending through the mid-20th century, Oregon was arguably the most racist place outside the southern states, possibly even of all the states.

Posted inCrime, Culture, Nonfiction, Quote Posts, Quotes

Vacating Convictions from Crooked Chicago Cops

by Aaron Gilbreath May 31, 2018October 19, 2022

A group of Chicago cops spent years framing innocent men, but thanks to one determined woman, their convictions are finally getting overturned.

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