Posts by Paul Newcomb
Confronting Implicit Bias in the New York Police Department
Police departments across the country are undergoing implicit bias trainings; this article describes some of the information surrounding the trainings.
Read MoreOn a Path to Expand the View of Blackness
Seniors from Yale interview and collect stories of other students, athletes, and family members about blackness in 2018.
Read MoreHidden Herstory: The Leesburg Stockade Girls
Children and youth were an important group during the Civil Rights movement. Often times, this group is not discussed in relation to the movement, and this article touches on some of the times youth organized.
Read MoreHow the 14th Amendment’s Promise of Birthright Citizenship Redefined America
The 14th Amendment was ratified 150 years ago. Here’s how it attempted to stop plans to make the U.S. a white man’s country.
Read MoreNAACP sues Connecticut over ‘prison gerrymandering’
The suit coming from the NAACP is part of larger effort to fight practices that the NAACP argues are attempts to suppress minority voting via prison-based gerrymandering.
Read MoreMore police, criminalization and gang suppression will not end homelessness in San Francisco
This article is written about homelessness and wealth inequality in San Francisco and the way homelessness has been criminalized and is being policed.
Read MoreQueer Love in Color
This article from the New York Times contains intimate interviews and photographs of black, queer couples.
Read MoreHidden portraits: African American life gets a spotlight
This article describes the photographs of unknown African Americans from the 20th century that are being displayed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.
Read MoreBlack Women Leaders, Then And Now
This article touches on some of the radical black women who have been apart of the Black Power Movement all the way to the current women leading the Black Lives Matter movement. Over the past decades, these women have also been left out of recorded history.
Read More‘You can’t just gloss over this history’: The movement to honor Ida B. Wells gains momentum
Ida B. Wells was an anti-lynching activist whose name is often forgotten. Her great-granddaughter is looking to change that. This article details how activists are remembering Wells.
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