‘Almost Home’: On Place, Legacy, Growing Up in Atlanta, and Symbols of White Supremacy By Cheri Lucas Rowlands Highlight An essay on growing up in the South, legacy, and a place rooted in white supremacy.
‘Shots fired. Male on ground, bleeding out.’ By Michelle Weber Highlight When “Who gets to go jogging without getting shot?” is an actual question a society has to ask, that society is fundamentally flawed.
If You Love the Music of the Carter Family, Thank Leslie Riddle By Michelle Weber Highlight “First, you exclude black people from the festivals. Then write them out by not recording them. And pretty soon, ‘you have this manufactured image of country music being white and being poor.'”
Rout the Racism From Your Very Bones By Michelle Weber Highlight “What are you carrying dormant in your body that springs up when confronted with Black joy, Black power, Black brilliance, Black Blackness in the world?”
The PTSD of Everyday Life By Michelle Weber Highlight The mental and physical toll of life in a white supremacist state is unavoidable for BIPOC, even if it manifests differently for different people.
Won’t You Be My Neighbor: An Anti-Hate Pop Culture Syllabus By Soraya Roberts Feature Media and entertainment grounded in empathy are a critical part of a saner culture — and we can all help by actively producing, seeking, and supporting it.
Your Turn By Longreads Feature Damon Young looks back at his family’s journey toward homeownership, and what that can really mean when you’re black in America.
“White” Isn’t Even Neutral When You’re Talking About Paint Colors By Michelle Weber Highlight Your systems will not protect you.
Of Blackness and ‘Beauty’ By Morgan Jerkins Feature At an art exhibit exploring black models through Western art, Morgan Jerkins finds historical evidence of the white supremacist definitions of beauty Dr. Tressie McMillan Cottom identifies in ‘Thick: and Other Essays.’
A Confederacy of (Dangerous) Dunces By Sari Botton Highlight Rebecca Solnit argues that the American Confederacy lives on, with Donald Trump at the helm.
Eli Saslow on the Slow-Motion Toppling of Derek Black’s White Supremacism By Jonny Auping Feature Eli Saslow says the push and pull of resistance (from angry classmates) and civil discourse (with others willing to be kind to him) is what changed Derek Black.
Little Führers Everywhere By Aaron Gilbreath Feature Vegas Tenhold spent six years covering the disorganized chaos of hate groups, and watched as they began to gather around a few media savvy voices.
‘Is This Gonna Happen Every Day in Charlottesville?’ By Sari Botton Highlight A black mother wrestles with having to explain the violence in Charlottesville to her six-year-old daughter.
How Can Alt-Right Women Exist in a Misogynistic Movement? By Michelle Legro Commentary An interview with Seyward Darby about her Harper’s cover story on gender dynamics within the alt-right.
Everyone’s Welcome, But Some People Are More Welcome Than Others By Michelle Weber Highlight “Well, you might as well come and live with me now,” her employer said. “You gonna be mine eventually.”
Tech Companies Are (Maybe) Ready to Punch Nazis Now By Danielle Tcholakian Commentary Some tech companies are taking a stand against neo-Nazi users, but claim it’s a still dangerous decision to make.
A Look Back at the 1939 Pro-Nazi Rally at Madison Square Garden and the Protesters Who Organized Against It By Matt Giles Commentary Seventy-something years ago, another massive rally took place in the United States that featured a clash between protesters and white supremacists.
The Colorblind Whitewashers of American History By Michelle Weber Highlight Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw offers a sharp rebuke to those who would declare our country “post-racial.”
Who Was Martin Luther King, Jr.? By Michelle Weber Highlight Who and what are we really commemorating on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day? Ijeoma Oluo unpacks the myriad ways Dr. King’s story has been softened and re-written to weaken black activism and bolster white supremacy.
‘My Name Is Emily, and I’m a White Supremacist.’ By Michelle Weber Highlight “The very foundations of my way of life are in white supremacy, and the list of microaggressions I have committed, and will no doubt continue to commit in spite of my “good intentions” for as long as I’m alive, is virtually endless.”
