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December 2018Everybody remembers the first time they were taught that part of the human race was Other. . . . It’s as though I told you that your left hand is not part of your body.
Toni Morrison
Featuring Tim Wise, Odetta, Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove, and more.
December 2018Over and over I have discovered that my children feel alienated in environments where, at their age, I felt an automatic sense of belonging.
By Krista BremerDecember 2018White supremacy is not just Nazis marching in the street. In the U.S. it’s always been a part of the economic and social system.
By Mark LevitonDecember 2018A secret letter, a political message, a kindergarten rebel
By Our ReadersOctober 2018Our God is the God of the widow and the orphan and the stranger, a God who says, “If you harm them, their cries will reach me.”
By Laura Esther WolfsonOctober 2018September 2018I learned a history not then written in books but one passed from generation to generation on the steps of moonlit porches and beside dying fires in one-room houses, a history of great-grandparents and of slavery and of the days following slavery; of those who lived still not free, yet who would not let their spirits be enslaved.
Mildred D. Taylor
Featuring Akhim Yuseff Cabey, Ross Gay, Charlotte D. Staelin, and more.
September 2018Hasty judgments, classroom taunts, racial epithets
By Our ReadersSeptember 2018This is where we are right now. It’s a racial stalemate we’ve been stuck in for years. Contrary to the claims of some of my critics, black and white, I have never been so naive as to believe that we can get beyond our racial divisions in a single election cycle, or with a single candidate — particularly a candidacy as imperfect as my own.
By Barack ObamaSeptember 2018Personal, political, provocative writing delivered to your doorstep every month—without a single ad.
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