Reginald Andrade: I Was Reported to Police as an ‘Agitated Black Male’ — for Simply Walking to Work
Last month, I walked across the campus of the University of Massachusetts Amherst to get to work. It was an ordinary stroll. But to a bystander, the sight of an … Continue reading
Yolanda Parker: I grew up in the segregated South. For me, Supreme Court rulings are personal.
I fear a return to a time when our rights were considered secondary, if at all. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh has a history of interpreting the law in a way … Continue reading
Tasha Williams: The Surprisingly Long History of Racial Oppression in Coffee Shops
Centuries before two Black men were arrested at a Philadelphia Starbucks, capitalists met at coffee shops to profit from the transatlantic slave trade. An illustration of Edward Lloyd’s coffee house, … Continue reading
Vanessa German: I believe in healing
black madonna on a paper towel from the public restroom at the shadyside hospital emergency room. where i have been too many so many times. up in there. knowing my … Continue reading
Marc Jampole: The New Jim Crow
“The New Jim Crow” has recreated the legal racism that existed before the Civil Rights movement As Michelle Alexander details in The New Jim Crow, her seminal 2010 study of … Continue reading
