Thurgood Marshall Was My Mentor. He’d Be Furious with the Court Today. | Sheryll Cashin

The Supreme Court justice’s vision is betrayed daily in an America in which schools remain separate and unequal.
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Is Nonviolent Resistance Past Its Prime?

In “We Refuse,” Kellie Carter Jackson explores the many forms of activism that oppressed people have resorted to and offers a more nuanced picture of their lives.
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Thurgood Marshall Was My Mentor. He’d Be Furious with the Court Today. | Sheryll Cashin

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Is Nonviolent Resistance Past Its Prime? | Linda Villarosa | The New York Times

'In “We Refuse,” @KCarterJackson explores the many forms of activism that oppressed people have resorted to and offers a more nuanced picture of their lives.'
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Zanele Muholi is one of the most acclaimed photographers working today, and their work has been exhibited all over the world. With over 260 photographs, this exhibition presents the full breadth of their career to date. tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-…

The Call: A jazz trumpeter recounts his time with the Sun Ra Arkestra | Ahmed Abdullah | Public Seminar

'While onstage with Sun Ra, I felt as if I had been transported to a magic land where everything seemed right.'
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The Cost of Inflation in Prison | JSTOR Daily

In prisons across the country, the long history of legal forced labor intersects with present-day inflation.
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'It’s hard for many Americans to imagine that before World War I, immigration into the US was basically unrestricted. That is, except for Chinese and other Asians. By 1919, passports were still a new feature of international travel, born of the war.'
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How Black lives became the hidden cost of clean energy

'Black activists in the U.S. are fighting the exploitation of Black resources and workers in the Congo'
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Ernie Barnes Paints What It Feels Like to Move

'The artist, who once played professional football, captured the anatomical and experiential details of bodies in motion in an expansive survey at Ortuzar Projects.'
nytimes.com/2024/05/30/art…

Black Atlantics | Adom Getachew | The New York Review of Books

'The scholar Louis Chude-Sokei does the urgent work of reimagining the African diaspora as multiple diasporas.'
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Zenaida Doves and Audubon’s Black Sisters, Un Essai en Vol
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I Recorded a Whole Hip-Hop Album on a Death Row Telephone

'In this new book excerpt, incarcerated rapper Alim “RRome Alone” Braxton describes his early attempts to record vocals over a phone in the dayroom.'
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She Made an Offer on a Condo. Then the Seller Learned She Was Black.

'A Black woman claims a white homeowner tried to pull out of a sale because of her race.'
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Picturing the Crisis | Inquest

'A new book uses art to make the horrors of mass incarceration as visual, and visceral, as possible.'
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Educators should embody the values they convey to students | Sunn m’Cheaux | The Emancipator

'In a commencement speech to Black graduates at Harvard, professor Sunn m’Cheaux reminds universities that the plight of students should be their purpose.'
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To be a woman in Sudan | Raga Makawi | Africa Is a Country

'Women in Sudan have gone from being state subjects to war spoils.'
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'Unveiling a hidden chapter of Raleigh's past, Oberlin Rising Sculpture Park is a must-visit for history enthusiasts. This park commemorates a once-thriving Black neighborhood established by formerly enslaved people in the 1850s.' | NC Weekend | PBS North Carolina
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Comprehending fascism in our time | Verso Books

Lisa Lowe, thinking with Alberto Toscano’s Late Fascism, on Black radical and anticolonial theories of fascism
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Migrant Voices: A Website on the Great Migration to Pittsburgh | Adam Lee Cilli | Black Perspectives
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