Paul Christensen: The Paradox of Diversity
It doesn’t take a genius to figure out that the history of American immigration is all about bringing in scab labor to keep down wages and to force established workers … Continue reading
Jose Padua: Recollection During a Light Storm in the Valley
On 14th Street near Avenue B I’m walking in New York City during the short middle of a long summer day behind a lovely, young, brown-skinned mother pushing her child … Continue reading
George Yancy: Dear White America
In 2015, I conducted a series of 19 interviews with philosophers and public intellectuals on the issue of race. My aim was to engage, in this very public space, with … Continue reading
Daniel R. Cobb: Isis – A Cup We Have Filled With Hatred
The claim to be a civilized society, the claim to be rational, advanced, even superior, is utterly bankrupt of any truth if, at those very moments when civility and rationality … Continue reading
Who is Ruby Bridges?
Ruby Bridges was born on September 8, 1954 to Lucille and Abon Bridges, who had four other children, giving Ruby three brothers and one sister. At age two, Ruby and … Continue reading
Leonard Pitts, Jr.: We don’t want to watch the police, but we have to
The question was first posed by Juvenal, a Latin poet whose life spanned the first and second centuries: Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? Translation: “Who watches the watchmen?” The old question … 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
Chris Hedges: A Pipeline Straight to Jail
The defeat of the Harvard University debate team by a team from the Eastern New York Correctional Facility in the Catskills elucidates a truth known intimately by those of us … Continue reading
Vanessa German: Laughter and Blackness
It is not like i am ashamed of my sorrow. or even ashamed of my rage. i am rage. i am outrage. i am the blues. i am blue. i … Continue reading
Kathleen O’Toole: Small Comfort — Writing Across Race
A voice on the radio back in 2001 started me down this road—the voice of Sarah Collins, whose sister Addie Mae was one of the four girls killed in the … Continue reading
Jose Padua: In the Season of Blue Afternoons and Starry Starry Nights
. It’s 1979 and I’m just out of college and loving the landscape doing the only kind of traveling I can afford when the Greyhound bus stops along the highway … Continue reading
George Yancy and Cornel West: The Fire of a New Generation
George Yancy: Recently, on Aug. 10, you were arrested along with others outside the courthouse in St. Louis because of the collective resistance against continued racial injustice and police brutality. … Continue reading
Paul Figueroa: Can Police Departments Reduce Implicit Bias?
“In too many communities around the country, a gulf of mistrust exists between local residents and law enforcement,” said President Obama in a recent speech at the Congressional Black Caucus … Continue reading
Video: White People (official full documentary — MTV)
What does it mean to be white? MTV’s ‘White People’ is a frank discussion about race that tries to answer the question from the viewpoint of young white people living … Continue reading
