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How Race Made the Opioid Crisis

The fundamental division between “dope” and medicine has always been the race and class of users.
by Donna Murch via Boston Review on August 27, 2019

The Great Land Robbery

The shameful story of how 1 million black families have been ripped from their farms.
by Vann R. Newkirk II via The Atlantic on August 12, 2019

The Bad-Apple Myth of Policing

Violence perpetrated by cops doesn’t simply boil down to individual bad actors—it’s also a systemic, judicial failing.
by Osagie K Obasogie via The Atlantic on August 2, 2019

American Wealth Is Broken

My family is a success story. We’re also evidence of the long odds African Americans face on the path to success.
by Maura Cheeks via The Atlantic on July 31, 2019
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How African American Land Was Stolen in the 20th Century

Between 1910 and 1997, black farmers lost about 90% of the land they owned.
by Steve Hochstadt via HNN on July 30, 2019

The Supreme Court Decision That Kept Suburban Schools Segregated

A 1974 Supreme Court decision found that school segregation was allowable if it wasn’t being done on purpose.
by Jon Hale via The Conversation on July 24, 2019

Biden’s Defense Of Anti-Busing Past Distorts History Of Segregation In Delaware

Like other northern liberals in the 1970s, Biden worked to restrict federal civil rights enforcement to the Jim Crow South.
by Matthew D. Lassiter via Talking Points Memo on July 18, 2019

Race, History, and Memories of a Virginia Girlhood

A historian looks back at the legacy of slavery and Jim Crow in her home state.
by Drew Gilpin Faust via The Atlantic on July 18, 2019

The Racist History of Tipping

Employers pay tipped workers $2.13 an hour. Why? Reconstruction-era racial discrimination.
by William J. Barber II via Politico Magazine on July 17, 2019
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The Brothers Who Spent Eight Years in Jail for Refusing to Leave Their Family's Land

Their great-grandfather had bought the land a hundred years earlier, when he was a generation removed from slavery.
by Lizzie Presser via ProPublica on July 15, 2019
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How School Desegregation Became the Third Rail of Democratic Politics

White liberals opposed segregation in the South, but fought tooth-and-nail to keep it in the North.
by Matt Delmont, Jeanne Theoharis via Made by History on July 8, 2019

Before the Central Park Five, There Was the Trenton Six

In both cases, false confessions were used against a group of black men with only precarious links to one another.
by Denise Lynn via Black Perspectives on July 3, 2019

A Lost Work by Langston Hughes Examines the Harsh Life on the Chain Gang

In 1933, the Harlem Renaissance star wrote a powerful essay about race. It has never been published in English—until now.
by Steven Hoelscher via Smithsonian on July 1, 2019

How USDA Distorted Data to Conceal Decades of Discrimination Against Black Farmers

An investigation found that USDA promoted misleading historical data which ultimately cost black farmers land, money, and agency.
by Nathan Rosenberg, Bryce Wilson Strucki via The Counter on June 26, 2019
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Why The Racial Wealth Gap Persists, More Than 150 Years After Emancipation

When one system of economic oppression collapsed, new ones were created to fill the void.
by Calvin Schermerhorn via Made by History on June 19, 2019

The ‘Death Penalty’s Dred Scott’ Lives On

In 1987, the Supreme Court came within one vote of eliminating capital punishment in Georgia because of of racial disparities.
by Annika Neklason via The Atlantic on June 14, 2019

How the ‘Central Park Five’ Changed the History of American Law

Ava DuVernay’s miniseries shows why more children had to stand trial as adults than at any other time before this 1989 case.
by Elizabeth Hinton via The Atlantic on June 2, 2019

Contract Buying Robbed Black Families In Chicago Of Billions

A new study on the toll of contract buying in Chicago during the 1950s and 1960s: $3 billion to $4 billion in lost black wealth.
by Natalie Y. Moore via WBEZ on May 30, 2019

One Reason Why White People in the South Have More Bias Against Black Americans

Research finds that white people in regions that were heavily dependent on slavery are more likely to harbor unconscious racism.
by Tom Jacobs via Pacific Standard on May 28, 2019
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Psychiatry, Racism, and the Birth of ‘Sesame Street’

How a black psychiatrist helped design a groundbreaking television show as a radical therapeutic tool for minority preschoolers.
by Anne Harrington via UnDark on May 17, 2019

Athlete-Activists Before and After Kaepernick

Kap wasn't the first, and he won't be the last.
by Louis Moore, Jules Boykoff via Public Books on May 14, 2019
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Bill Bruton’s Fight for the Full Integration of Baseball

Louis Moore discusses Bill Bruton and the erasure of his activism towards integration in Major League Baseball.
by Louis Moore via Black Perspectives on May 9, 2019

All Stick No Carrot: Racism, Property Tax Assessments, and Neoliberalism Post 1945 Chicago

Black homeowners have been an oft ignored actor in metropolitan history despite playing a central role.
via The Metropole on May 9, 2019

The Consequences of Forgetting

The reparations struggle is about remembering that America was built on slavery, but also about fighting for all working people.
by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor via Jacobin on May 7, 2019
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The 1910 Report That Disadvantaged Minority Doctors

A century ago, the Flexner Report led to the closure of 75% of U.S. medical schools. It still explains a lot about today’s unequal access to healthcare.
by Jessie Wright-Mendoza, Lynne E. Miller, Richard M. Weiss via JSTOR Daily on May 3, 2019

A Book of Necessary, Speculative Narratives for the Anonymous Black Women of History

Unearthing the beauty in the wayward, the fiction in the facts, and the thriving existence in the face of a blanked out history.
by Sarah Rose Sharp via Hyperallergic on April 15, 2019
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'Not a Racist Bone in His Body’: The Origins of the Default Defense Against Racism

The rise of the colorblind ideology that prevents us from addressing racism.
by Justin Gomer, Christopher F. Petrella via Made by History on April 11, 2019

Segregated by Design

The forgotten history of how our governments unconstitutionally segregated this country.
by Richard Rothstein, Mark Lopez via Silkworm Studio on April 5, 2019

Making Good on the Broken Promise of Reparations

Ignoring the moral imperative of repairing slavery's wounds because it might be “divisive” reinforces a myth of white innocence.
by Katherine Franke via New York Review of Books on March 18, 2019

Black Farmworkers in the Central Valley: Escaping Jim Crow for a Subtler Kind of Racism

"The difference between here and the South is just that — it's hidden."
by Alexandra Hall via KQED on February 22, 2019
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