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An Asian American Responds to “Why Can’t Blacks be More Like ‘The Asians’”

An Asian American Responds to “Why Can’t Blacks be More Like ‘The Asians’”

The internet is ablaze after Professor Jerry Hough of Duke University made several inflammatory comments about race. In the comments…
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Khoi B
We must protect Americans from racial terrorism

We must protect Americans from racial terrorism

The mass murder at the Charleston AME church is not a hate crime. It is not a “senseless act of evil,” the motive of which is unknowable…
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Eric Garland
All Our Euphemisms are Like Filthy Rags

All Our Euphemisms are Like Filthy Rags

Keisha E McKenzie
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Keisha E McKenzie
A Boston Tea Party for Black America

A Boston Tea Party for Black America

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Mattias Lehman

How Fear Perpetuates Racial Prejudice

“A writer? That’s dope! I love how you said that with confidence: I’m a writer. You do you, man; don’t let the white man keep you down.…
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Mattias Lehman
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Why Ta-Nehisi Coates Wrongly Labeled Bernie Sanders as Indirectly Representing White Supremacy in…

Why Ta-Nehisi Coates Wrongly Labeled Bernie Sanders as Indirectly R...

When dealing with Ta-Nehisi Coates’ recent two perspectives on feeling presidential candidate Bernie Sanders’ comments on reparations…
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Andrew Jerell Jones
5 Reasons Why IDFW Hillary Clinton

5 Reasons Why IDFW Hillary Clinton

By Brandon D. Anderson
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Brandon D. Anderson
Sandra Bland Lives In Tragic Technicolor

Sandra Bland Lives In Tragic Technicolor

Sandra Bland was found dead in her jail cell in Waller County, Texas on July 13, 2015. She was twenty-eight years old. Three days before…
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Ezinne Ukoha
The Soul-Crushing Nature of Systemic Racism

The Soul-Crushing Nature of Systemic Racism

In the news that we’ve seen as of late, you could stand there, surrender to the cops, and still be killed.
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Mattias Lehman
The Gravity of Death: The Critical Element Missing from the “Black Lives Matter” Conversation

The Gravity of Death: The Critical Element Missing from the “Black ...

By: @LathaniaB
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Lathania Butler, PhD.
Introducing: The newest of America’s stupid unwritten rules.

Introducing: The newest of America’s stupid unwritten rules.

Given the weekly hashtags raising awareness of police brutality victims, the topic that has dominated my Facebook-feed the past months has…
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Markus Hüfner
Simple Reasons Why Force is Not a Fair Response to“Rude” Civilians

Simple Reasons Why Force is Not a Fair Response to“Rude” Civilians

By Lathania Brown
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Lathania Butler, PhD.
Sandra Bland and the Death of the Police Myth

Sandra Bland and the Death of the Police Myth

Sandra Bland was a 28-year old woman who was traveling to a new job and was not committing a crime. After her interaction with American…
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Eric Garland
The Four Lies You’re Going to Hear About the Charleston Massacre

The Four Lies You’re Going to Hear About the Charleston Massacre

You’re about to hear a bunch of reflexive and totally fallacious tropes about that pasty genetic malfunction down in Carolina that so hated…
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Eric Garland
Church Is Supposed To Be Safe

Church Is Supposed To Be Safe

Reflections From A Church Girl In The Wake Of The Charleston Massacre
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Cherise McBride
Just Another Instance of White Terrorism

Just Another Instance of White Terrorism

A white man guns down nine black people in a church in South Carolina. The state’s Confederate battle flag stays waving in the wind the…
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Eoin Higgins
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