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Kicked Off the Land
The New Yorker story of brothers Melvin Davis and Licurtis Reels deprived of their land and imprisoned for eight years for civil contempt is an example of a system that operates to deprive African Americans of their property. “Between 1910…
Read MoreWhy People of Color Need Spaces Without White People
With so much call for unity, it is sometimes difficult for people in the majority to understand how oppression creates a critical need for people of color to have time and places without white people present. Kelsey Blackwell explains how…
Read MoreThe Clear Connection Between Slavery And American Capitalism by Dina Gerdeman
As seen by the number of posts today [more to come], last night’s Continuing Conversation about reparations was extremely engaging. Caroline Clarke did a magnificent job educating the audience about conditions imposed on the African American community far beyond slavery….
Read MorePsychology: Bias, Quantified
Princeton professor of psychology Stacey Sinclair and postdoctoral scholar Travis Riddle compared county-by-county data on racial bias with statistics on school punishment. Their results showed that bias and racial disparities are strongly correlated. The summary article in the Princeton…
Read MoreRichard Carranza held ‘white-supremacy culture’ training for school adminstrators
The New York Post may not like it, but it sounds like NYC School Chancellor Richard Carranza’s training is making all the right points. “The training is not focused on white supremacy and white privilege,” Carranza said after a City…
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