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The following post originally appears on Dame Magazine. It was written by Jameson Parker.  By: Kirsten West Savali It is impossible to turn my eyes away from Ferguson, Missouri. As law enforcement continues to use military weapons to terrorize protesters seeking justice for slain teen Michael Brown, the 18-year-old who was gunned down by police officer Darren […]

My friend and I are both teachers. Last year, during a cold fall month with no snow on the ground, we were driving around the south side of Chicago looking for notable graffiti. My friend was teaching a unit on hip-hop, and since graffiti is a key component of the genre, he wanted to find […]

  The following post originally appeared on Slate under the title, “Where I’m From: How a trip to Kenya changed the way I think about the terms African-American and black American.” By: Aisha Harris One of the first times I recall being asked the question “Where are you from?” was also one of the first […]

  The following post originally appears on the Washington Post under the title, “No, college isn’t the answer. Reparations are.”  By: Tressie McMillan Cottom In case you’ve been living under a rock, Ta-Nehisi Coates has written a thing at The Atlantic making the case for reparations. For some, reparations to African Americans for enslavement and state-sanctioned apartheid […]

  Baltimore Ravens player Ray Rice held a press conference to apologize to his wife months after video of him assaulting her became public. Rice’s two game suspension was the subject of tremendous discussion.

By: William Darity Jr., Duke University The excellent recent article by Ta-Nehisi Coates in The Atlantic has rejuvenated the national conversation over reparations for black Americans. One of the most impressive aspects of Coates’ article is his emphasis on events and conditions during the 20th century  as the basis for black reparations.

The following post originally appeared in The Atlantic, and was written by Ta-Nehisi Coates. Coates is a national correspondent at The Atlantic, where he writes about culture, politics, and social issues. He is the author of the memoir The Beautiful Struggle. Its originally title is “The Case for Reparations.” By: Ta-Nehisi Coates And if thy brother, a Hebrew […]

16-year-old Grace Bush is accomplishing the unthinkable. The South Florida teen is not just set to collect a high school diploma, but one from college as well.

Let’s be honest, 70% of teams in NBA could fold tomorrow + nobody would notice a difference w/ possible exception of increase in streetcrime — Rep. Pat Garofalo (@PatGarofalo) March 9, 2014 The following post was written by Ta-Nehisi Coates, a writer for “The Atlantic.” It is in response to controversial comments made by Cliven Bundy, a […]

A retired professional baseball player says he was racially profiled while shoveling the driveway of his Hartford, Connecticut home. Doug Glanville published an op-ed in The Atlantic recounting his experience with a police officer. 

A pregnant South Carolina woman who drove a minivan carrying her three small children into the Atlantic ocean has had has had charges against her reduced. Ebony Wilkerson, 32, was charged on three counts of attempted first-degree murder and child abuse following the March 4 incident. 

The Atlanta Black Star has compiled a list of 5 nations that imported Europeans to “whiten” the population.