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On the birth of a progressive protest movement under President Trump.
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On the birth of a progressive protest movement under President Trump.
Rebecca Traister New York Oct 2020 30min Permalink
A teenage clerk dialed 911. How should the brothers who own CUP Foods pay for what happened next?
Aymann Ismail Slate Oct 2020 25min Permalink
A profile of the singer.
Claudia Rankine Vogue Sep 2020 20min Permalink
On Toyin Salau’s disappearance and death.
Samantha Schuyler Jezebel Aug 2020 25min Permalink
The author, on book tour when the pandemic set in, reflects on what could have been worse—and what could be better.
Kiese Makeba Laymon Vanity Fair Aug 2020 20min Permalink
George Floyd’s killing galvanized a nation. But small groups like the queer-led collective Black Visions are channeling that energy into a movement for political change.
Jenna Wortham New York Times Magazine Aug 2020 30min Permalink
I say, Where’s Breonna, why won’t anybody say where Breonna is? He says, Well, ma’am, she’s still in the apartment. And I know what that means.
Ta-Nehisi Coates Vanity Fair Aug 2020 25min Permalink
When a Black lineman from Colorado State went knocking on doors in a white neighborhood, he found himself at the dangerous intersection of a national racial reckoning and a world of internet-conspiracy fanaticism.
Alex Prewitt Sports Illustrated Aug 2020 20min Permalink
“What people need to know is we’re not protesting churches. We’re protesting this church.”
Anne Helen Petersen Buzzfeed News Aug 2020 30min Permalink
Two lawyers, a summer of unrest, and a bottle of Bud Light.
Lisa Miller New York Aug 2020 30min Permalink
A Black Lives Matter confrontation pitted neighbor against neighbor—and displayed the raw power of a social media flash mob.
Aaron Gell Gen Jul 2020 15min Permalink
One man’s choice to stand alone. The story of race, politics, and power in baseball.
Howard Bryant ESPN Jul 2020 20min Permalink
The gun-touting couple from St. Louis care more about private property than anyone realized.
Jeremy Kohler St. Louis Dispatch Jul 2020 15min Permalink
A queer Black man's chance encounters.
Brandon Taylor them. Jul 2020 25min Permalink
The writer’s family saw an unmarked NYPD cruiser hit a Black teenager. He tried to find out how it happened, and instead found all of the ways the NYPD is shielded from accountability.
Eric Umansky ProPublica Jun 2020 15min Permalink
And the Black Lives Matter movement could be the vaccine the country needs
Steven W. Thrasher Slate Jun 2020 20min Permalink
The quest to transform this country cannot be limited to challenging its brutal police.
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor The New Yorker Jun 2020 30min Permalink
I remember when you were a little girl, you used to call yourself “peach-brown”. Peach represented your mother, brown represented your father, and together they made peach-brown, a perfect articulation at the time for what you were. The colors came from the crayons you matched to the skin of your parents, and although they were separate and didn’t mix together very well on paper, they were the best you had at the time. This silly little phrase represented what would become a lifelong struggle of coming into your own identity.
Kaiya McCullough D1on1 Jun 2020 10min Permalink
On the divisive narrative of “outside agitators” and how labor history can help guide the protest movement.
Jay Caspian Kang Time To Say Goodbye Jun 2020 15min Permalink
CW: racist language
A black android faces grave human racism.
Chesya Burke Apex Magazine Apr 2017 10min Permalink
As mass demonstrations against police brutality continue across the country, thousands gather in New York to demonstrate against generations of police brutality and racial injustice in America.
Tyler Tynes The Ringer Jun 2020 10min Permalink
Black women have been telling the truth about America for a long time. As a Black woman in journalism, my obligation is no less than that.
An unarmed man, a cop charged with murder, and the challenge of policing mental illness.
Steve Fennessy Atlanta Magazine Sep 2019 25min Permalink
Christopher Daniels’ political beliefs got him in trouble. Though the FBI won’t comment, he is likely the first person ever imprisoned for being a “black identity extremist.”
Peter Simek D Magazine Sep 2018 25min Permalink
On the shootings, and the response, in Baton Rouge, Falcon Heights, and Dallas this summer.
Bryn Stole, Brandt Williams, Mitch Mitchell, Lexi Pandell Wired Nov 2016 20min Permalink