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As Hall Brothers shuts down after nearly 80 years, the owner seeks to preserve burial records that document a disappearing black Washington
— Read on www.washingtonpost.com/

David Daley writes about newly obtained records and e-mails that raise new questions about the role of race in Thomas Hofeller’s gerrymandering and in the Republican Party’s mapmaking nationwide.
— Read on www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-secret-files-of-the-master-of-modern-republican-gerrymandering

Now more than ever, it’s important to look boldly at the reality of race and gender bias — and understand how the two can combine to create even more harm. Kimberlé Crenshaw uses the term “intersectionality” to describe this phenomenon; as she says, if you’re standing in the path of multiple forms of exclusion, you’re likely to get hit by both. In this moving talk, she calls on us to bear witness to this reality and speak up for victims of prejudice.
— Read on www.ted.com/talks/kimberle_crenshaw_the_urgency_of_intersectionality/up-next

White families quickly recuperated financial losses after the Civil War, and then created a Jim Crow credit system to bring more white families into money.
— Read on www.citylab.com/equity/2019/09/racial-wealth-gap-history-slavery-black-white-family-income/597100/

The underappreciated heritage of African American philanthropy began soon after the first enslaved Africans in Virginia disembarked in 1619.
— Read on time.com/5661786/african-american-philanthropy/

When did heaviness and curviness in women become connected with the idea of “savagery”? It has a lot to do with 19th-century imperialist world views.
— Read on daily.jstor.org/how-colonialism-shaped-body-shaming/

It wasn’t just slavery but segregation, redlining, evictions, exclusion — and outright theft.
— Read on www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/14/magazine/racial-wealth-gap.html

What if a black artist re-imagined urban development with Oakland’s black community in mind?
— Read on www.sfchronicle.com/style/amp/What-if-a-black-artist-reimagined-urban-14396125.php

Almost completely ignored by the modern world, this month marks the 500th anniversary of one of history’s most tragic and significant events – the birth of the Africa to America transatlantic slave trade. New discoveries are now revealing the details of the trade’s first horrific voyages.
— Read on www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/transatlantic-slave-trade-voyages-ships-log-details-africa-america-atlantic-ocean-deaths-disease-a8494546.html

Pauline Hopkins launched America’s first Black monthly magazine, ‘The Colored American.’ Infights with investors and her penchant to take on White supremacy and racism were her ultimate downfall.
— Read on zora.medium.com/the-audacious-woman-who-launched-the-nations-first-black-monthly-magazine-63ebad9acb27