An expert in urban planning and environmental policy explains how race has played a central role in how cities across America developed — often in ways that hurt minority communities.
— Read on www.npr.org/2020/07/05/887386869/how-transportation-racism-shaped-america
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Opinion | If Black Lives Really Matter to the Rich, Philanthropy Isn’t Enough – The New York Times
Philanthropy alone won’t save the American dream.
— Read on www.nytimes.com/2020/06/25/opinion/sunday/black-lives-matter-corporations.html
Who Died For Your Dinner?
Who Died For Your Dinner?
— Read on www.buzzfeednews.com/amphtml/albertsamaha/july-4th-barbecue-food-coronavirus
Freedom’s Founders: An Online Exhibition from the Schomburg Center | The New York Public Library
Discover the unsung heroes of abolitionism and American freedom in an online exhibition curated by NYPL’s Schomburg Center.
— Read on www.nypl.org/blog/2020/07/02/schomburg-freedoms-founders
Kayleigh McEnany and the Women Who Do PR for White Supremacy
Back during her CNN commentator days, I was once on the air with White House press secretary and Trump defender in chief Kayleigh McEnany. It was 2016, and we were both invited to be on a special CNN…
— Read on zora.medium.com/amp/p/bdc21be9036e
Jasmine Guillory on the Importance of Reading Black Fiction | Time
To recognize Black lives as ones to celebrate, empathize with and care about, here’s your antiracism work: read more fiction by and about Black people.
— Read on time.com/5861861/jasmine-guillory-black-fiction/
Opinion | You Want a Confederate Monument? My Body Is a Confederate Monument – The New York Times
The black people I come from were owned and raped by the white people I come from. Who dares to tell me to celebrate them?
— Read on www.nytimes.com/2020/06/26/opinion/confederate-monuments-racism.html
Opinion | Beyond ‘White Fragility’ – The New York Times
If you want to let freedom ring, hammer on economic injustice.
— Read on www.nytimes.com/2020/06/26/opinion/black-lives-matter-injustice.html
Whose Streets? Black Streets | The Tyee
Planners and urbanists, it’s time to reckon with the racism rampant in city building. Here are four actions to take.
— Read on thetyee.ca/Analysis/2020/06/18/Whose-Streets-Black-Streets/
Rhode Island Won’t Use Part Of Its Name That Conjures Past Slavery : Live Updates: Protests For Racial Justice : NPR
Officially, the tiniest state’s name remains Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. But the governor jettisoned the latter phrase from state documents, with a vote on it likely to follow.
— Read on www.npr.org/sections/live-updates-protests-for-racial-justice/2020/06/23/882473020/what-is-no-longer-in-a-name-rhode-island-official-docs-shed-racially-loaded-moni
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