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Robin DiAngelo On White People’s ‘Fragility’
“White progressives cause the most damage to people of color. . . . Niceness is not only not courageous, niceness is not going to get racism on the table . . . Question of ‘how’ rather than ‘if’ I’ve been…
Read MoreAs Starbucks trains on implicit bias, the author of ‘White Fragility’ gets real
On May 29, 2018, the day Starbucks closed thousands of stores to carry out racial sensitivity trainings, USA Today interviewed Robin DiAngelo, race educator who coined the term “white fragility,” about challenges to changing white people’s attitudes and behaviors and…
Read MoreOn ‘White Fear Being Weaponized’ And How To Respond
On NPR’s Weekend Edition Sunday, host Lulu Garcia-Navarro asks Khalil Muhammad, a professor of history, race and public policy at Harvard University, “Are incidents of white people calling the police on people of color for various reasons, none involving breaking the…
Read MoreUncovering the Hidden Resistance History of Black Women Athletes
In an interview with Dave Zirin in the Nation, Professor Amira Rose Davis talks about some of the forgotten heroines of athletic resistance like Wilma Rudolph and Rose Robinson. David tells their stories in her forthcoming book, Can’t Eat A…
Read MoreMen Arrested in Philly Starbucks Speak Out
Rashon Nelson and Donte Robinson had been in the Starbucks in Philadelphia two minutes before the barista called 911, precipitating the arrival of the police and the two men’s arrest. To hear Robin Roberts’ complete interview with them on Good…
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