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Posted inEditor's Pick
A Racist Scientist Built a Collection of Human Skulls. Should We Still Study Them?
“After the murder of George Floyd in May 2020 sparked protests for racial justice around the country, more and more people within and outside Penn began to see the Morton collection as a present-day perpetuation of racism and its harms, rather than just a historic example.”
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Why Do Detainees Keep Dying in This Baton Rouge Jail?
“In one decade, 45 people died in East Baton Rouge Parish Prison. Most were charged with nonviolent misdemeanors. Most didn’t have their day in court. Most were Black. How did the system fail them?”
Posted inHighlight
‘The City Just Lied’: Remembering the 1921 Tulsa Massacre
One hundred years later, journalists look back on the massacre of “Black Wall Street.”
Posted inCuration, Essays & Criticism, Highlight, Nonfiction, Quote Posts, Quotes
‘The Price For Your Return to Normal Is My Life’: On Dismantling Layers of the Doll
“I have to wear all of these dolls, you see, so that Whiteness does not have to wear any.”
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Seeing in the Dark
“I have to wear all of these dolls, you see, so that Whiteness does not have to wear any.”
Posted inCulture, Essays & Criticism, Highlight, Nonfiction, Quotes, Uncategorized, Writing
Listen to the Sound of My Voice
How a journalist found her voice as her mother lost hers.
Posted inNonfiction
Before Donating Your Body Was a Choice
Whose nervous system is stretched out in a glass case at Drexel University’s medical campus?
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The Dolly Moment
“Only a society that willfully believes itself ‘post-racist’ could produce such a queen.”