“I didn’t want to encapsulate my existence as very traumatic and downtrodden, like ‘Great Expectations.’ So much of the national dialogue about race deals with either terrible trauma or black excellence. I was more interested in the space in between, because that’s where I exist. So the challenge was finding a space between sensationalizing and also documenting and contextualizing.”
Damon Young’s WHAT DOESN’T KILL YOU MAKES YOU BLACKER is in stores this week.
This March marked the 15th anniversary of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq.In 2003, President George W. Bush and his advisers based their case for war on the idea that Saddam Hussein, then dictator of Iraq, possessed weapons of mass destruction — weapons that have never been found. Nevertheless, all these years later, Bush’s “Global War on Terror” continues — in Iraq and in many
Source: We Have Spent $32 Million Per Hour on War Since 2001
The United States is cutting off aid to El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras, known collectively as the “Northern Triangle,” the State Department said on Saturday, a day after President Donald Trump blasted the Central American countries for sending migrants to the United States.
Source: U.S. ending aid to El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras over migrants | Reuters
Woman Sues Harvard to Get back Slave Photos of her Family.
In 1850, a Harvard professor with a twisted theory of white superiority had research photographs taken of two slaves from South Carolina — a father and daughter, stripped to the waist, who stare hauntingly into the camera.
Tamara Lanier, 54, a retired chief probation officer from Norwich, filed suit Wednesday in Massachusetts. Papa Renty is her great-great-great-grandfather, Lanier argues in demanding that the university stop profiting from the black-and-white daguerreotype prints — and exploiting her ancestors.
Source: Harvard sued over profiting, use of slave photography
Starting in the fourteenth century, cooling temperatures disrupted our economic and social structures and may have given rise to the modern world, John Lanchester writes.
Source: How the Little Ice Age Changed History | The New Yorker
Last Sunday, I took my son Alexander, 9, to hear a performance of the Hebrew Choir Festival, which “aims to promote Hebrew as the common global Jewish
Source: We’re Jews, We’re Not White, We Define Ourselves | Jewish Journal
A new survey suggests that America is finally open to giving some form of reparations to African-Americans.
Source: Reparations: America Owes Black Descendants Of Slaves, Study Finds | News One
Slavery made America wealthy, and racist policies since have blocked African American wealth-building. Can we calculate the economic damage?
Those of you who have been involved in the past in the battle to protect our children from poorly made vaccines or toxic chemicals in our food or in our water know the power of these industries and how they’ve undermined every institution in our democracy that is supposed to protect little children from powerful, […]
Source: Robert F. Kennedy Jr Explains How Big Pharma Completely Owns Congress – Collective Evolution
Slavery is thriving in Libya, where thousands of black Africans hoping to get to Europe instead find themselves bought and sold, forced to work for nothing, and facing torture at the hands of their owners.
Source: Slavery In Libya, Where You Can Buy A Black Man For $400. What is the African Union doing About it?
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