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Nell Irvin Painter • Old In Art School: A Memoir of Starting Over
directly confronting racial and gendered inequalities was a key strategy to eradicate them. As she carefully explained in her 1965 Freedomways
Keisha N. Blain • Until I Am Free: Fannie Lou Hamer's Enduring Message to America
the Republican is foe to Black people; the Democrats possess Black loyalty notwithstanding their neglect of those most loyal constituents.
Imani Perry • South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
Schools are places where the next generation either comes alive with possibility or is crushed by the weight of odds stacked against them. The very place where our imaginations should be fostered is where that potential is routinely smothered.
Ruha Benjamin • Imagination: A Manifesto (A Norton Short)
This want of a specific warrant to plunder specific humans is as old as “race” itself.
Ta-Nehisi Coates • The Message
African Americans to “develop a kind of dangerous
Rodney Jackson • A Philanthropic Covenant with Black America
newsworthiness rarely brings destroyed White bodies to the front page of the newspaper.
Teju Cole • Black Paper: Writing in a Dark Time (Berlin Family Lectures)
We sought to make sense of our unique paradox: We have never been more empowered and yet, in many ways, are still so disenfranchised. Social media has granted Black folks a platform to tell our own stories, but it has also made us subject to a new brand of surveillance and unprecedented co-option. How can we find innovative ways to define ourselves
... See moreKimberly Drew • Black Futures
It was a norm and a form of social control that advanced the organization.