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Is Race a Myth?
Race is a social construct explains, Jenée Desmond-Harris over at Vox. This video breaks it down. Read the original piece at Vox. Photo: Screenshot/Youtube
Kamala Harris Launches Bid for US Senate Seat
California Attorney General Kamala Harris launched her bid for Senate this morning.
When Will the North Face Its Racism?
Isabel Wilkerson, author of ‘The Warmth of Other Suns’, writes that uprising against brutality is part of a day of reckoning for the North.
Why Black New Yorkers Like Me Are Celebrating the NYPD Work Slowdown
“For New Yorkers who value fair policing, though, the slowdown is an occasion to celebrate,” writes Aurin Squire for the New Republic.
Nearly 2,000 Killed by Boko Haram
Reports claim that nearly 2,000 people were killed during an attack Baga, Nigeria, a town near the Chad border.
Paris, #BlackLivesMatter, the Cultural Violence, and the White Western State
Writer Malik Nashad Sharpe believes that it’s possible to mourn those lost in the Charlie Hebdo attack and stand with those that have been harmed by racist and Islamophobic sentiments in France.
‘Because White Men Can’t Police Their Imagination, Black Men Are Dying’
Claudia Rankine’s preeminent book on race in America, ‘Citizen’, has been given a chilling update. What used to be blank spaces now hold the names of black men killed by the police.
The Idea Revolution: How Youth of Color Will Build Our Future
Writing for the Huffington Post, Brandon Hill says that the gap between rich and poor students may deprive the world of significant contributions from youth of color.
We’ll Need an Economic Program to Make #BlackLivesMatter. Here Are Three Ideas.
“We are in the midst of a movement to upend white supremacy,” say the Nation‘s Jesse A. Myerson and Mychal Denzel Smith. They have three economic ideas for making #BlackLivesMatter.
President Obama Just Changed the Game
Yesterday, President Obama proposed making community college free for those “who are willing to work for it.”
New Footage Shows Officers Restraining Tamir Rice’s Sister
Cleveland city officials released extended video that show’s police forcing Tamir Rice’s sister to the ground after they shot her brother. The video shows Rice’s sister running to his aide after hearing the gun shots. Once she approached the body, she is held down by the officers involved and eventually handcuffed and put in the […]
We Out (T)here: Afrofuturism in the Age of Non-Indictments
Writing for Weird Sister, Morgan Parker believes that the concept of Afro-futurism might help us heal from daily anti-black violence. “Not only do our lives matter, they will remain. Like it or not.”