@timjacobwise: Thread To understand white denial about American history, consider two photos. First, this pic of Hazel Bryan screaming at Elizabeth Eckford during the integration of Little Rock Central High. The dat...…
In a little-known speech, Frederick Douglass sketched a vision of a post-racial America a century before the term was invented. Douglass, subject of a new film, spoke with uncanny precision about debates we're having now on race, immigration and American exceptionalism.
@lesliemalex: Just got home from a harrowing experience and it's haunting me.... This is a long thread... This evening I took my mom on an errand, and when we arrived in the parking lot there were...
It has to be said, and public defender Olayemi Olurin minced no words in spreading the gospel. “There is no ‘Purge Law’ in Chicago,” she tweeted last month. “What there is, is a concerted effort to prevent landmark bail reform that’ll prevent countless...
Colette Peters, the new director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons, told the AP her vision for reforming the crisis-plagued agency pledging to reform its archaic hiring practices and hold accountable any employees who sexually assault inmates.
@ijbailey: A story that's not getting enough national attention: Here in the Myrtle Beach, S.C. area for the past 13 years, the FBI and local law enforcement officials left the impression that a white girl on vacati...…
@AfricanArchives: “fuck it, i’ll do it!” —black women Black women are routinely erased from public memory and historical narratives of resistance. Black women powered the civil rights movement, but rarely became its...…