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The new frontier is digital, which means newly blazed trails have fewer highway robbers (who are often cops) that can select victims based on race. The decentralized market makes it something governments can’t easily turn into pyramids of caste inequality.
Research suggests that whenever a Black student’s status as valedictorian or salutatorian is questioned, it pays to ask questions. Is it being questioned for a legitimate reason? Or might racism or white fragility be at play?
These ploys are designed with a single purpose: to stifle racial justice initiatives and LGBTQ+ equality while mobilizing a demoralized Republican base still reeling from the 2020 election.
It’s patronizing to say this is a step in the right direction when some roads have landmines.
We already know what happens when Black history is enveloped in the whiteness of a “federal holiday.”
If racism is a public health crisis, then the Louisville Metro Police Department is a tumor. And a tumor can't cure itself.
Sports journalists have extraordinary access that can inform fans’ understanding of the athletes and their performances, but they must do better if they are to remain relevant.
Since it's Black Music Month and we're approaching a summer of vaccination roulette with family, here's a curated list of timeless hip-hop songs.
Black children are not killed because police fail to recognize them as children. They are killed because they are Black.
The Tulsa Race Massacre is a stark example of the failure of the U.S. democracy to provide justice for race-based terroristic violence – to require reparative justice – thus, condoning it.
The mission for funerals like Ma'Khia Bryant's should be to celebrate children and mourn lives cut too short. Instead, these live-streamed funerals are part of the choreography of state murders and modern day lynchings of Black bodies.
There is no lullaby of "justice," only the ongoing nightmare of policing.