The Dissenter
On the legacy of Louisiana Supreme Court Chief Justice Bernette Johnson and her battle with the Deep South’s white power structure.
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On the legacy of Louisiana Supreme Court Chief Justice Bernette Johnson and her battle with the Deep South’s white power structure.
Elon Green The Appeal Mar 2021 40min Permalink
Black employees say Amazon has a race problem.
Jason Del Rey Recode Feb 2021 30min Permalink
Last year an antique Depression-era neon sign was excavated in Pasadena—but it dug up a troubling story along with it. On Nat King Cole, hot chicken, and Malibu’s racist past.
Nate Rogers Vice Jan 2021 20min Permalink
On Black nonchalance.
Gold and diamond grills. Stilettos you can’t walk in. Grandly arching fingernails, lovingly adorned. Such flouting of functionality is an obvious fuck-you to the days of scrutinized teeth at auctions and picking cotton on plantations.
Namwali Serpell The Yale Review Dec 2020 25min Permalink
A white woman calls the police on her Black neighbors. Six months later, they still share a property line.
Allison P. Davis New York Dec 2020 35min Permalink
On hope, violence, and being Black in the outdoors.
Latria Graham Outside Sep 2020 20min Permalink
The venture capitalist and Facebook board member staked his reputation on a Trump presidency. Now what does he have to show for it?
Rosie Gray, Ryan Mac Buzzfeed Sep 2020 Permalink
In New Orleans, hospitals sent patients infected with the coronavirus into hospice facilities or back to their families to die at home, in some cases discontinuing treatment even as relatives begged them to keep trying.
Annie Waldman, Joshua Kaplan ProPublica Aug 2020 30min Permalink
How the murder of Timothy Coggins was finally solved.
Wesley Lowery GQ Jul 2020 15min Permalink
It starts with something small, and you ignore it. I remember when Jrue and I first started dating, right after college, and one of the women on my club team made a passing comment about him. “Jrue is the whitest black guy I know.”
Lauren Holiday The Players' Tribune Jun 2020 10min 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
Ahmaud Arbery went out for a jog and was gunned down in the street. How running fails Black America.
Mitchell S. Jackson Runner's World Jun 2020 30min Permalink
Trying to parent my Black teenagers through protest and pandemic.
Carvell Wallace New York Times Magazine Jun 2020 30min Permalink
CW: racist language
A black android faces grave human racism.
Chesya Burke Apex Magazine Apr 2017 10min Permalink
Anytime the racial temperature goes up and hell pays a visit to earth, the disappointment takes a holiday. And you fight. You fight because you’re tired. Yet you’re tired because you’ve been fighting. For so long. In waves, in loops, in vacuums, in vain.
Stories of African Americans playing in a city that has struggled with racism
Marc J. Spears The Undefeated Feb 2020 25min Permalink
Tressie McMillan Cottom on confronting racism, sexism, and classism.
Mark Leviton The Sun Feb 2020 30min Permalink
Uncovering evidence of unequal treatment by real estate agents.
Ann Choi, Bill Dedman, Keith Herbert, Olivia Winslow Newsday Nov 2019 40min Permalink
The history of a sundown town.
Logan Jaffe ProPublica Nov 2019 25min Permalink
A white friend admitted that she had never seen a single photo of a lynching. I was shocked, but not surprised. A lynching was a warning. She didn’t need to be warned.
Maurice Carlos Ruffin Oxford American Sep 2019 15min Permalink
A young British man was drawn to a white-supremacist group, until they started plotting to kill.
Ed Caesar New Yorker May 2019 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
The long fight against racism in romance novels.
Lois Beckett The Guardian Apr 2019 30min Permalink
“I admit it,” she says, in her hotel room. “I’m a troll. I’m the queen of the fucking trolls.”
Geoff Edgers Washington Post Mar 2019 20min Permalink
The story of a lynching in rural CO in 1900, while hundreds watched, done with the complicity of press and cops, and why it still resonates today.
Alan Prendergast Westword Nov 2018 25min Permalink