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Has Hurricane Florence Destroyed Records of America’s Slave Trade?

Hurricane Florence has left much of the southeastern United States in a state of disarray. Archives and records containing information on the slave trade may have been damaged from the flood waters and the after-effects.

It’s Bigger Than a Hip-Hop Exhibit: What the Controversy Around White Curators in Black Spaces Reveals

This article from the Root delves into the art world, examining how white curators often take up spaces meant for Black, Latinx, or other people of color.

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What Is White Privilege, Really?

What is White Privilege and how does it show up in everyday people to people interactions?

The Whitewashing of Naomi Osaka

Mark Knight published a racist caricaturized Serena Williams while simultaneously whitening Naomi Osaka.

Tennessee man charged with murder for burning black man to death, then using Bible to justify act

Man writes a letter to a white supremacist group and uses the bible to justify the murder of a Black man.

Segregated Minds: How pandering to a Waukesha constituency with propaganda perpetuates division

Segregation is a physical stressor as well as a psychological one. It traumatizes those who are segregated as well as those who plan, perpetuate and participate in systems of segregation.

Conservatives call for constitutional intervention last seen 230 years ago

Are we opening a pandora’s box by calling for a constitutional convention?

Georgia election board plots Jim Crow-like assault on black voting

Nine polling locations in predominately black and rural areas may be shut down. The Voting Right Act itself is in danger of being gutted, as well.

Breaking Hate: What a Former White Supremacist Says Will End Racism May Suprise You

Whose job is it to fix white supremacy?

NASA’s Johnson Center Appoints First Black Deputy Director

Vanessa Wyche appointed the new deputy director of the Johnson Space Center and breaks another barrier for Black women..

Public hearing to determine if George Marshall Clark’s lynching site will be added as landmark

George Marshall Clark, a free Black man, is the only person to be hung in Milwaukee’s history . He deserves to be recognized with a historical marker at the lynching site.

1918 ‘race war’ has ties to Philadelphia’s present

100 years ago, South Philadelphia was hit with one of the most violent riots to hit Philadelphia city. This article looks back on it.

Unraveling the hidden Black history of Appalachian activism

Appalachia is often misrepresented and whitewashed by popular media. This article details some of the people who are often forgotten.

In this Nov. 17, 1997 file photo Democratic Rep. Ron Dellums raises his fist while announcing his retirement from Congress at a news conference in Oakland, Calif. Dellums, a fiery anti-war activist who championed social justice as Northern California’s first black congressman, has died at age 82. Longtime adviser Dan Lindheim says Dellums died early Monday, July 30, 2018, at his home in Washington, D.C., of cancer. (AP Photo/Ben Margot, File)

California’s Fiery Former Congressman Ron Dellums Dies at 82

Ron Dellums was a leader in the fight for social justice in Oakland, the nation and around the world.

A Sandra Bland Documentary Is Coming to HBO

HBO revealed their fall lineup of documentaries, including Say Her Name, a documentary about Sandra Bland’s life. The documentary will be told through various clips of her mother and sisters and clips from her video blogs.

A photo of Emmett Till is seen on his grave marker Friday, Aug. 26, 2005, in Alsip, Ill. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)

Reopening the Emmett Till Case Is a Cynical Play

Whose justice is served by reopening the Emmett Till case?

The Gilbert Stuart painting “Portrait of George Washington’s Cook” may depict Hercules, the first president’s famous chef. (Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons)

How Enslaved Chefs Helped Shape American Cuisine

The southern United Stated is known for both its food and hospitality, both of which can be traced to slavery.

Black Suffrage: Slavery, citizenship, and securing the right to vote in Wisconsin

Descendants of slaves continue their long fight for voter rights in Wisconsin.

Witness a history of racial injustice at two new museums in Alabama and Mississippi

This article is about the anti-lynching and racial injustice museums opening across the country, most notably The National Memorial for Peace and Justice and The Legacy Museum in Montgomery, Alabama, and the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum in Jackson, Mississippi.

America’s nonviolent civil rights movement was considered uncivil by critics at the time

The backlash to the current fight for civil rights for immigrants, people of color, sex workers, and other marginalized groups mirror the backlash from demonstrators of the Civil Rights era. This article elaborates on the response then and today.

My Great-Grandfather, the Nigerian Slave-Trader

Nigerian slave trade results in Igbo Landing mass suicide in 1803.