The Atlantic

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Black educators have always known that their students are living in an anti-Black world and that their teaching must be set against the very order of that world.

Chicago Tribune

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It has been brought to my attention that some white people are offended by the term "black card." They got really upset when I wrote a column recently suggesting that African-Americans should consider giving Omarosa Manigault Newman's black card back

Tribune Content Agency Opinions

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I have a question for white people. I will preface it with an excerpt from a recent email sent by a reader named James. He wrote: "It is the blacks who are by far the most racist of all people as they can't seem to simply forget their damn color and

The Atlantic

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Trump’s nonwhite support suggests a gulf between how the “woke” left processes racism and how many people in the real world do.

The Atlantic

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Valdary’s Theory of Enchantment elicits unusual openness, trust, and engagement from ideologically diverse observers.

NPR

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We talked to Angela Saini, author of the new book Superior: The Return of Race Science, about how race isn't real (but you know ... still is) and how race science crept its way into the 21st century.

Time Magazine International Edition

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IN 1937, THE CARNEGIE CORPORATION hired a Swedish man to unravel an American quandary. The foundation had a history of funding initiatives to help the disadvantaged; in the U.S., where enslavement was only 72 years gone, the disadvantaged were dispro

High Country News

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DURING THE LATE 19TH and early 20th centuries, both freed and enslaved Black people came to the American West from the South, searching for lives free of the violence and oppression imposed first by slavery, and later by Jim Crow. In California, howe

Manhattan Institute

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Perhaps nothing so animates the progressive Left today as the notion of an increasingly race-conscious society, segregated by ethnic identity and dismissive of the traditional ideal of assimilation. If this seems ironic, it should—in the not-so-dista

Chicago Tribune

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CHICAGO - For months, Timothy Kincaide has walked daily through the lobby of the Merchandise Mart, but it wasn't until a co-worker told him to look up that he noticed a mural of what appears to be African-American women picking cotton. "I see oppress

NPR

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Gov. Northam has made a call for racial dialogue after his yearbook photo controversy, but these conversations are hard to have productively.

The Atlantic

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Why do black Americans die earlier than white Americans? Staff writers Olga Khazan and Vann Newkirk join Matt and Alex to discuss how poverty and prejudice shorten African-American lifespans.

NPR

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Journalist Eduardo Porter has written a book that cuts to the root of racism, tracing it from slavery, Jim Crow, and segregation — and bringing it to today — with unblinking honesty and facts.

NPR

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"Hustle" is just one of many buzzwords in a culture obsessed with productivity. But before the gig economy, hustling was tied up in both stereotypes and realities of working as a black person.

TIME

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IN 1937, THE CARNEGIE CORPORATION hired a Swedish man to unravel an American quandary. The foundation had a history of funding initiatives to help the disadvantaged; in the U.S., where enslavement was only 72 years gone, the disadvantaged were dispro

Chicago Tribune

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It is hard for many African Americans to understand why a black man would embrace the white cop who had been convicted of killing his brother. When they look at the photo of Brandt Jean hugging former Dallas police Officer Amber Guyger, they wonder h

Manhattan Institute

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African-Americans have mixed attitudes, but most are satisfied with their local departments.

Chicago Tribune

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It is hard for many African Americans to understand why a black man would embrace the white cop who had been convicted of killing his brother. When they look at the photo of Brandt Jean hugging former Dallas police Officer Amber Guyger, they wonder h

Literary Hub

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In the 30 Books in 30 Days series leading up to the March 16 announcement of the 2016 National Book Critics Circle Award winners, NBCC board members review the 30 finalists. Today, read Tess Taylor on poetry finalist Monica Youn’s Blackacre (Graywolf

Literary Hub

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First, some historical and cultural context. I was born in Hampton, Virginia, in 1970. My family—both sides, mother’s and father’s—had migrated there, with thousands of others, from eastern North Carolina (Ahoskie, Windsor, and other parts of Bertie

Chicago Tribune

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It is hard for many African Americans to understand why a black man would embrace the white cop who had been convicted of killing his brother. When they look at the photo of Brandt Jean hugging former Dallas police Officer Amber Guyger, they wonder h

Chicago Tribune

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It is hard for many African Americans to understand why a black man would embrace the white cop who had been convicted of killing his brother. When they look at the photo of Brandt Jean hugging former Dallas police Officer Amber Guyger, they wonder h

Chicago Tribune

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It is hard for many African Americans to understand why a black man would embrace the white cop who had been convicted of killing his brother. When they look at the photo of Brandt Jean hugging former Dallas police Officer Amber Guyger, they wonder h

Chicago Tribune

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It is hard for many African Americans to understand why a black man would embrace the white cop who had been convicted of killing his brother. When they look at the photo of Brandt Jean hugging former Dallas police Officer Amber Guyger, they wonder h

Chicago Tribune

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It is hard for many African Americans to understand why a black man would embrace the white cop who had been convicted of killing his brother. When they look at the photo of Brandt Jean hugging former Dallas police Officer Amber Guyger, they wonder h

Chicago Tribune

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It is hard for many African Americans to understand why a black man would embrace the white cop who had been convicted of killing his brother. When they look at the photo of Brandt Jean hugging former Dallas police Officer Amber Guyger, they wonder h

Chicago Tribune

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It is hard for many African Americans to understand why a black man would embrace the white cop who had been convicted of killing his brother. When they look at the photo of Brandt Jean hugging former Dallas police Officer Amber Guyger, they wonder h

The Christian Science Monitor

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The US midterm election was filled with racial issues, another example to the world of how to confront a difficult topic. At least one country, Tunisia, has decided progress on race is possible.

Chicago Tribune

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It is hard for many African Americans to understand why a black man would embrace the white cop who had been convicted of killing his brother. When they look at the photo of Brandt Jean hugging former Dallas police Officer Amber Guyger, they wonder h

Chicago Tribune

4 min read

It is hard for many African Americans to understand why a black man would embrace the white cop who had been convicted of killing his brother. When they look at the photo of Brandt Jean hugging former Dallas police Officer Amber Guyger, they wonder h