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A close look at Hansberry and James Baldwin’s famous 1963 meeting with Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy
— Read on www.salon.com/2018/12/09/lorraine-hansberry-american-radical/

Michael W Twitty: One result of legalized racism in America was this strange limit, which helped teach kids the rules of a segregated society
— Read on amp.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jul/04/black-people-vanilla-ice-cream-jim-crow-independence-day

Immigration reporter Tina Vasquez on journalism’s white gaze
— Read on www.playboy.com/read/brown-bodies-the-white-gaze-and-the-rio-grande

The abuse of data from the 1940 census has fueled fears about a citizenship question on the 2020 census form.
— Read on www.washingtonpost.com/

Monday on “Closer Look with Rose Scott”: 0:00: Rose Scott gives a new brief on some controversy surrounding marketing materials that appear to have been released by Quarry Yards, a 70-acre mixed-use development being built in Atlanta’s Grove Park neighborhood. We hear reaction from city council leaders and community
— Read on www.wabe.org/episode/closer-look-community-members-respond-to-controversial-quarry-yards-marketing-eviction-in-gas-urban-rural-communities/

A small African-American community has existed less than 10 miles from the president’s former plantation for generations. Only recently has the full extent of their relationship been revealed.
— Read on www.nytimes.com/2019/07/07/us/politics/monroe-slavery-highland.html

Beyond the beautiful beaches and glitzy galas, Oak Bluffs is a complex community that elite families, working-class locals and social-climbing summerers all claim as their own.
— Read on narratively.com/the-real-story-of-black-marthas-vineyard/

The slave economy of the southern states had ripple effects throughout the entire US economy, with plenty of merchants in New York City, Boston, and elsewhere helping to organize the trade of slave-grown agricultural commodities—and enjoying plenty of riches as a result.
— Read on www.forbes.com/sites/hbsworkingknowledge/2017/05/03/the-clear-connection-between-slavery-and-american-capitalism/amp/

Her grass-roots efforts shaped the conversation and presented a path forward.
— Read on www.washingtonpost.com/

Researchers target effects of ‘complex trauma’ and PTSD in bid to improve lives of children and parents
— Read on amp.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/jun/22/indigenous-baby-health-project-aims-to-stop-generational-trauma