
The Black Family in the Age of Mass Incarceration
“Peril is generational for black people in America—and incarceration is our current mechanism for ensuring that the peril continues.”
Great articles, every Saturday.
“Peril is generational for black people in America—and incarceration is our current mechanism for ensuring that the peril continues.”
Ta-Nehisi Coates The Atlantic Sep 2015 1h20min Permalink
“Until we reckon with our compounding moral debts, America will never be whole.”
Ta-Nehisi Coates The Atlantic May 2014 1h Permalink
How the bestselling sci-fi author builds her stories.
Raffi Khatchadourian New Yorker Jan 2020 25min Permalink
The answer to the disparity in death rates has everything to do with the lived experience of being a black woman in America.
Linda Villarosa New York Times Magazine Apr 2018 40min Permalink
From Driving Miss Daisy to Green Book.
Not knowing what these movies were “about” didn’t mean it wasn’t clear what they were about. They symbolize a style of American storytelling in which the wheels of interracial friendship are greased by employment, in which prolonged exposure to the black half of the duo enhances the humanity of his white, frequently racist counterpart. All the optimism of racial progress — from desegregation to integration to equality to something like true companionship — is stipulated by terms of service.
Wesley Morris New York Times Jan 2019 15min Permalink
An interview with James Baldwin on race in America.
How Black America talks to the White House.
Ta-Nehisi Coates The Atlantic Jan 2014 10min Permalink
A generation of African American heroin users is dying in the opioid epidemic nobody talks about. The nation’s capital is ground zero.
Peter Jamison Washington Post Dec 2018 Permalink
The actual story behind those viral college acceptance videos out of T.M. Landry.
Erica L. Green, Katie Benner New York Times Nov 2018 25min Permalink
Should art be a battleground for social justice?
Wesley Morris New York Times Magazine Oct 2018 20min Permalink
A profile.
Caity Weaver New York Times Magazine Sep 2018 25min Permalink
“The echoing horror of slavery cuts both ways. We are often afraid to say what we know is true. The South is disaster and it is also miracle.”
Imani Perry Harper's Jul 2018 20min Permalink
In Baltimore and other segregated cities, the life-expectancy gap between African-Americans and whites is as much as 20 years. One young woman’s struggle shows why.
Olga Khazan The Atlantic Jun 2018 35min Permalink
What Kanye West really wants.
Ta-Nehisi Coates The Atlantic May 2018 20min Permalink
On history, race, and guns in America.
Kiese Laymon Unruly Bodies Apr 2018 10min Permalink
How a journalist who wrote a seminal account of police brutality during the 1967 race riots in Newark wound up on the wrong side of the law.
Greg Donahue The Atavist Magazine Mar 2018 1h Permalink
It’s a made-up label.
Elizabeth Kolbert National Geographic Mar 2018 10min Permalink
A major black novelist made a remarkable début. How did he disappear?
Kathryn Schulz New Yorker Jan 2018 Permalink
Life after Get Out.
Wesley Morris New York Times Magazine Dec 2017 25min Permalink
How the GOP took control of state politics in Alabama, leaving black lawmakers—and their constituents—powerless.
Jason Zengerle The New Republic Aug 2014 30min Permalink
Not education. Not income. Not even being an expert on racial disparities in health care.
Nina Martin, Renee Montagne ProPublica Dec 2017 35min Permalink
“The specific dissonance of Trumpism—advocacy for discriminatory, even cruel, policies combined with vehement denials that such policies are racially motivated—provides the emotional core of its appeal. It is the most recent manifestation of a contradiction as old as the United States, a society founded by slaveholders on the principle that all men are created equal.”
Adam Serwer The Atlantic Nov 2017 50min Permalink
A weekend with the United Order of Tents, a semi-covert organization of black women.
Kaitlyn Greenidge Lenny Oct 2017 15min Permalink
Black people struggling with debts are far less likely than their white peers to gain lasting relief from bankruptcy. A style of bankruptcy practiced by lawyers in the South is primarily to blame.
Paul Kiel, Hannah Fresques ProPublica Sep 2017 25min Permalink
“Colin Kaepernick is inconvenient. To persist is to show strength, but also to be unpredictable, hard to define, impossible to control. And to grow stronger with every lash is to become dangerous—a threat not only to power, but to inspire others to follow suit.”
Rembert Browne Bleacher Report Sep 2017 40min Permalink