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Who Fixes Detroit? Young Black Detroiters Want To Resurrect A Lost Neighborhood

Tuesday, August 11, 2015

Unless you grew up in a black family with deep Detroit roots, I'm betting you've never heard of Black Bottom. It was a self-sustaining, all-black neighborhood that flourished on Detroit's eastern edge at the turn of the last century. It's largely forgotten today, replaced by a four-lane highway, but ...

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Here's What Black Lives Matter Looks Like In Canada

Friday, August 07, 2015

When we're talking about police brutality, issues in Canada aren't on a lot of American's radar. If anything, there's a widespread belief that Canada is some sort of racism-free zone.

But according to many black Canadians, a #BlackLivesMatter movement is badly needed in that country — and it's starting to ...

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Did Slaves Feel Fortunate? And Other Questions Asked Of A Plantation Tour Guide

Tuesday, June 30, 2015

Over at Vox, a white woman who until recently was a tour guide at a historic Southern plantation recounts some ... interesting questions she got from the mostly white tourists she encountered over the years, some of whom had jaw-dropping ideas of what slavery was really like.

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A Good Read: A White Woman On 'Being An Excuse' For Deadly Racism

Wednesday, June 24, 2015

At The New Republic, Chloe Angyal pens a piece on the role of white womanhood in America's racial dynamics, and why she will "no longer be an excuse for violence."

We know that Dylann Roof, the 21-year-old white man who massacred nine black people in Charleston's Mother Emanuel Church, ...

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Jon Stewart, Jamelle Bouie, And Others Weigh In On The Charleston Massacre

Friday, June 19, 2015

"The Confederate flag flies over South Carolina, and the roads are named for Confederate generals, and the white guy is the one who feels like his country is being taken away from him." That's Jon Stewart on Wednesday's horrific shooting inside Mother Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal in Charleston, S.C. As ...

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Tell Us: How Do People Celebrate Juneteenth In Your Area? #WouldntBeJuneteenthWithout

Tuesday, June 16, 2015

This Friday is the 150th observation of Juneteeth — June 19, 1865 —the day that news of emancipation finally reached slaves in Texas, the last to learn that they had been freed. Some call this day the "Black 4th of July," and each year people across the country celebrate ...

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Round-Up: A Few More Worthwhile Thoughts On Rachel Dolezal

Monday, June 15, 2015

Last week, we rounded up a few thoughtful remarks on Rachel Dolezal, the white woman and head of the Spokane, Wash., NAACP chapter who publicly passed herself off as a black woman. On Monday morning, Dolezal resigned from her position with the NAACP. As developments in this ...

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Making Sense Of Rachel Dolezal, The Alleged White Woman Who Passed As Black

Friday, June 12, 2015

In a bizarre turn of events, a prominent civil rights leader and Africana studies professor in Spokane, Wash., has been accused of pretending to be black for personal gain.

Rachel Dolezal, 37, heads up the local chapter of the NAACP in Spokane and has apparently identified as black for several ...

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