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systemic racism

Posted inEditor's Pick

The Dubious Rise of Imposter Syndrome

by Krista Stevens February 6, 2023February 6, 2023

“The impostor begins to do everything possible to prevent being discovered in her self-perceived deficiencies.”

Posted inNonfiction

My Seat at the Table

by Bernice L. McFadden August 5, 2021October 18, 2022

A tale of racism.

Posted inEditor's Pick

Why Do Detainees Keep Dying in This Baton Rouge Jail?

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands July 9, 2021October 19, 2022

“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 inEssays & Criticism, Featured, Highlight, Quote Posts, Quotes

“A Series of Small Collapses Caused by Continual Neglect”

by Krista Stevens February 15, 2021October 19, 2022

“A series of small collapses is how they come to be radicalized.”

Posted inBusiness, Essays & Criticism, Feature, Featured, Nonfiction, Story

Leaning In with Alex P. Keaton

by Nicole Cyrus December 5, 2019December 30, 2022

Born with serious CEO aspirations, Nicole Cyrus found her role model in a white kid from an ’80s sitcom.

Posted inNonfiction

Whiteness on the Couch

by Natasha Stovall August 12, 2019October 18, 2022

Clinical psychologist Natasha Stovall looks at the vast spectrum of white people problems, and why we never talk about them in therapy.

Posted inBooks, Nonfiction, Story

Your Turn

by Longreads April 10, 2019October 19, 2022

Damon Young looks back at his family’s journey toward homeownership, and what that can really mean when you’re black in America.

Posted inFeatured, Nonfiction, Quotes

Pathologizing Black Communities: Chicago Violence Receives the Wrong Attention

by Katie Kosma August 30, 2018October 19, 2022

Homicide rates in Chicago’s black communities receive a disproportionate amount of media attention in an ongoing tendency to sensationalize and pathologize their residents.

Posted inEditor's Pick

Why America’s Black Mothers and Babies Are in a Life-or-Death Crisis

by Sari Botton April 12, 2018October 19, 2022

Reporter Linda Villarosa reports on the racial disparities in health care that contribute to black women being three to four times as likely to die from pregnancy-related causes as their white counterparts, and black infants being more than twice as likely to die as white infants. Threaded through the piece is the story of Simone […]

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