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  • Lucy Parsons: An American Revolutionary

    The life and times of Lucy Parsons, early American radical and labor organizer, told definitively here.

  • The Myth of a Post-Racial America

    The Myth of a Post-Racial America Literary Hub 2016-11-07 Pamela Newkirk, Professor of Journalism New York University Pamela Newkirk Wonders How Much Further Back We Can Go… For the past eight years, many African-Americans instinctively presumed that the venom spewed at President Obama was on account of his race. More recently, we endured a steady…

  • Our Kids, Their Fears, Our President?

    Our Kids, Their Fears, Our President? Literary Hub 2016-11-07 Mira Jacob and Emily Raboteau on Raising Children of Color in Trump’s America Writers Mira Jacob and Emily Raboteau conducted this conversation via email during the week before the election, at night after getting their kids to bed. Emily Raboteau: Mira, Lit Hub has invited us…

  • Life in Trump’s America: A mixed-race educator in the rural South speaks

    Life in Trump’s America: A mixed-race educator in the rural South speaks The Daily Dot 2016-11-18 Courtney Parker West Photo via Gage Skidmore / Flickr (CC-BY-SA) Photo via dolgachov / GettyImages | Remix by Jason Reed This is the first in a series of essays on what lives look like in post-election America. One woman…

  • The New Biopolitics of Race, Health, and Justice

    The New Biopolitics of Race, Health, and Justice Center For Health and Wellbeing Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs 001 Robertson Hall Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey Friday, 2016-11-11, 12:00-13:30 EST (Local Time) Dorothy Roberts, George A. Weiss University Professor of Law and Sociology and the Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander…

  • When will Rachel Dolezal stop trying to get in formation?

    When will Rachel Dolezal stop trying to get in formation? gal-dem 2016-06-23 Paula Akpan and Ella Wilks-Harper When the story of Rachel Dolezal first broke – the NAACP president who has been misrepresenting herself as black – I snorted derisively. When she was interviewed by VICE’s Broadly and mused over how “it’s so hard to explain this to people: I don’t feel white,” I rolled my…

  • Trevor Noah Wasn’t Expecting Liberal Hatred

    Trevor Noah Wasn’t Expecting Liberal Hatred The New York Times Magazine 2016-11-02 Ana Marie Cox Your memoir, “Born a Crime,” is a striking depiction of your life in South Africa both under and after apartheid. How has that experience formed your perspective on the divisions we’re seeing in America because of the election? America is…

  • KING: Colin Kaepernick’s ‘I Know My Rights Camp’ cements his status as a cultural superhero in the black community

    KING: Colin Kaepernick’s ‘I Know My Rights Camp’ cements his status as a cultural superhero in the black community The New York Daily News 2016-10-29 Shaun King Daily News columnist Shaun King, his son, and Colin Kaepernick pose for picture after Kaepernick’s camp. (Shaun King/New York Daily News) “Dad. Does Colin still have a game…

  • Creative Self-Studio: Social Justice Storytelling

    Creative Self-Studio: Social Justice Storytelling DePaul University Student Center (Lincoln Park) Room 120 AB 2250 N Sheffield Avenue Chicago, Illinois Tuesday, 2016-10-25 09:40-11:10 CDT (Local Time) Aisha Fukushima will discuss the role of the emcee in hip-hop culture as a story-teller and learn how hip hop story-telling can be used to critically explore questions of identity, inequality and…

  • Where did Colin Kaepernick get start as an activist?

    Where did Colin Kaepernick get start as an activist? USA TODAY 2016-09-30 Josh Peter They remember the conservative haircut he wore at John Pitman High School, and now they see the Afro and cornrows. They remember his studious and soft-spoken ways from a decade ago, and now they see him refusing to stand for the…