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More than two centuries after it was designed to empower southern white voters, the system continues to do just that.
— Read on www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/11/electoral-college-racist-origins/601918/

Georgetown, Princeton Theological Seminary, and Virginia Theological Seminary are creating scholarships, while Harvard, Yale, and Brown have admitted to benefiting from the slave trade.
— Read on www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/takeaway/segments/how-universities-are-addressing-slavery-reparations

A Dream of Homeownership, Undermined
— Read on newrepublic.com/amp/article/155622/dream-homeownership-undermined

Find out how white people can hold one another accountable when it comes to institutional racism, and why it’s necessary.
— Read on www.teenvogue.com/story/white-people-can-hold-each-other-accountable-to-stop-institutional-racism

Southern “Redeemers” snuffed out the first black power movement.
— Read on www.nytimes.com/2019/11/08/opinion/sunday/jim-crow-laws.html

The boys’ parents said the NYPD didn’t notify them that their children had been arrested.
— Read on champ.gothamist.com/champ/gothamist/news/red-hook-boys-spent-halloween-night-handcuffed-carroll-gardens-police-precinct

Making Black history matter in public space
— Read on www.brookings.edu/blog/the-avenue/2019/10/02/making-black-history-matter-in-public-space/amp/

An assault at a New Jersey high school football game had an unexpected cast of characters.
— Read on www.nytimes.com/2019/10/26/opinion/new-jersey-high-school-racism.html

Fifteen percent of white families are worth more than $1 million, double the share in 1992.
— Read on www.washingtonpost.com/

Reparations Now Toolkit – The Movement for Black Lives
— Read on policy.m4bl.org/downloads/reparations-now-toolkit-final/