The Marshall Project
RBG’s MIXED RECORD ON RACE AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE. Ruth Bader Ginsburg was a revered feminist icon. Her legacy on issues such as prisoners’ rights, capital punishment, racial justice and tribal […]
The Atlantic
ANTEBELLUM ISN’T JUST BAD —IT’S VILE. To make a point about the evils of white supremacy, the film subjects its Black characters to unceasing brutality. Antebellum is the kind of film […]
Men’s Health
I BELIEVE GOOD FOOD IS A RIGHT. SO I’M TEACHING KIDS TO FARM. Brendan Parker is manager at Red Hook Farms in Brooklyn, where they grow greens, root vegetables, tomatoes, […]
W Magazine
THANDIE NEWTON: “MAEVE’S NUDITY WAS THE GREATEST FORM OF PROTEST”. It may come as a surprise, but Thandie Newton never knew much about the global superstar who is Michael Jordan before lockdown. […]
National Retail Foundation
THROUGH THE RETAIL LENS: SHOPPER RESPONSE TO RETAIL’S RACIAL RECKONING. Todd Szahun, senior vice president of Kantar Retail, recently conducted research into the retail response to the current racial and […]
Indianapolis Star
SATCHUEL COLE, LEADER IN THE FIGHT FOR RACIAL EQUALITY IN INDIANAPOLIS, LIED ABOUT OWN RACE. A high-profile Indiana activist known for racial and social justice advocacy has apologized for lying […]
KING-TV (Seattle)
IMPLICIT BIAS: ONLINE TEST CAPTURES OUR HIDDEN ATTITUDES ON RACE. More than two decades ago, Tony Greenwald and his colleagues debuted an online Implicit Association Test, also known as the IAT. […]
Associated Press
ROSA PARKS’ HOME DISPLAYED IN ITALY AS US RACE TENSIONS RISE. The run-down, paint-chipped Detroit house where U.S. civil rights icon Rosa Parks took refuge after her historic bus boycott […]
Newsweek
TWITTER CDO ACKNOWLEDGES ‘RACIST’ PHOTO ALGORITHM: ‘IT’S 100 PERCENT OUR FAULT’. Twitter’s chief design officer, Dantley Davis, has acknowledged evidence of racial bias in how a neural network used by […]
Teen Vogue
THE NOD’S BRITTANY LUSE EXPLORES BLACKNESS ON OUIBI. Brittany Luse remembers La La Anthony’s days as a highly-coveted VJ on MTV in the early aughts. She makes sure to mention that when […]
The Economist
WHY IS INTEREST GROWING IN AMERICA’S BLACK COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES? Six months ago prospects looked dire for many historically black colleges and universities (hbcus): around 100 institutions, mostly in the South, […]
New York Magazine
STUDY: INEQUALITY ROBS $2.5 TRILLION FROM U.S. WORKERS EACH YEAR. Every few months, some group of socially conscious number crunchers will remind Americans that a tiny elite is binge-eating the nation’s economic […]
New York Post
WEALTHY BLM PROTESTER’S NOTES REVEAL PLAN TO OCCUPY NYC APARTMENTS. They can start with her place! The wealthy young woman accused of rioting in Lower Manhattan cooked up plans to take […]
Washington Post
RUTH BADER GINSBURG CAN LEARN SOMETHING FROM BRETT KAVANAUGH. [This opinion article was written by Paul Butler, a professor at Georgetown University Law Center.. It was originally published by the […]
The Nation
THE DARK SIDE OF THE CULT OF RUTH BADER GINSBURG. Justice Ginsburg is an essential voice on the Supreme Court— but portraying her as a dissenter obscures the work of […]
Metanoia
NOTORIOUS. [This blog post was written by Dr. Leeja Carter, an Assistant Professor at Long Island University – Brooklyn. It was published September 9, 2018.] From time to time I’ll […]
