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Special News Series: Rising Up For Justice! – For the First Time, America May Have an Anti-Racist Majority

The best analogue to the current moment is the first and most consequential American racial awakening—Reconstruction in 1868. The story of that awakening offers a guide, and a warning.

Special News Series: Rising Up For Justice! – DHS Says It’s “Working On” A Black Lives Matter Crackdown

After months of Donald Trump recycling Fox News lines equating those protesting racial injustice to domestic terrorists, the president’s acting Department of Homeland Security secretary appeared on Tucker Carlson’s show to tease the department’s mass-arrest plan.

Special News Series: Rising Up For Justice! – Asheville, N.C., Approves Steps Toward Reparations For Black Residents

A passed resolution aims to address recent systemic issues of segregation and exclusion. It says Black people “have been excluded from full participation in the benefits of citizenship that include voting, employment, housing and health care.”

Stories Behind the Postcards: Paintings and Collages of Jennifer Scott

This series of six paintings and three collages is the response of Chicago artist Jennifer Scott to souvenir lynching postcards. She thought about what she did not see in the postcards: the family members left behind to take down the victim, to mourn and bury the remains-if there was enough to bury.

What White America Fails to See

By Michael Eric Dyson, Op-Ed Contributor, New York Times IT is clear that you, white America, will never understand us. We are a nation of nearly 40 million black souls inside…

The Scourged Back: How Runaway Slave and Soldier Private Gordon Changed History

This famous photograph communicated a powerful message about the so-called “peculiar institution”—undermining the notion that slavery was benign.

‘Save My Son’: Reality Show Keeps It Real

Nsenga K. Burton writes about a reality TV series intended to get young men–and their families–back on track.

Inheriting Home: The Skeletons in Pa’s Closet

With its store of family memories, Arkansas defines home for me. But embracing and claiming it as my own is prickly business. “Home” has closets of skeletons that are anything but comforting: the Lost Cause, Jim Crow, the Ku Klux Klan, lynchings.

Trayvon Martin, My Son, And The Black Male Code

Jesse Washington explains the conversation he had with his son after hearing a radio story about Trayvon Martin’s murder.