Category : Culture

That Time White Slaveowners Got Reparations While Slaves Didn’t Get 40 Acres and a Mule - The Good Men Project

goodmenproject.com - “It is time for us to simply realize that … when it comes to the economic gap between blacks and whites in America, it does come from a great injustice that has never been dealt with. If you did the …Tweeted by @Werdnat https://t...

Trump and Texas: 2019

dallasobserver.com - There's a condition, one you've probably heard of if you've happened on any right-wing media over the last three years or have any acolytes of the president in your social circle, called Trump Derang…Tweeted by @Dallas_Observer h...

The Story on Reparations I’m Not Qualified to Write

medium.com - Every once in a while I read a story that reminds me of how little I know about subjects I think I’m pretty well versed in. I’m not mad about it, it just reminds me how much more there is for me to l…Tweeted by @QUEENBONITA55 https://twi...

How Textbooks Can Teach Different Versions Of History

npr.org - This summer there's been an intense debate surrounding the Confederate flag and the legacy of slavery in this country. In Texas that debate revolves around new textbooks that 5 million students will …Tweeted by @RandyLeBlanc24 https://twitt...

Mothers of Massive Resistance

global.oup.com - "Though this is a thoroughly-researched historical study, McRae does not present strictly chronological order, but lets the lives of the women shine forth and parallel the historical events -- local …Tweeted by @msolis1982 https://tw...

Violent and Uncivilized: The "Wild" Deep South - Identity Dixie

identitydixie.com - The founding myth of America revolves largely around the struggles and difficulties the colonists, and later Americans, had in civilizing the country. Unfortunately, this building block of American i…Tweeted by @GazeWest https://t...

Republicans Want Victimhood Without Being Victimized

nymag.com - On Wednesday morning, a group of Republican lawmakers stormed the Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility, or “SCIF,” where members of the House Oversight, Intelligence, and Foreign Affairs Comm…Tweeted by @TallulahB2012 https://twit...

Nina Simone’s Childhood Home Is Under Threat. This Campaign Aims to Save it

smithsonianmag.com - Nina Simone was born in a small, clapboard house in Tryon, North Carolina, in 1933. It was there that Simone began teaching herself to play piano when she was just three years old, the start of a stu…Tweeted by @EvRvO123 https://...

What Black Life Actually Looks Like

jacobinmag.com - Over the last five years, Black Lives Matter has served as a broad banner uniting citizens from all walks of life against the most egregious and visible use of police force against black civilians. U…Tweeted by @notcolloquial https:/...

What Are Reparations?

actifypress.com - Reparations, as a concept, are a known and commonly used element of law and justice. It is restitution for losses or damages from the aggressor to the aggrieved, including the loss of opportunity. Re…Tweeted by @mg_returns https://t...

‘The Banker’ sounded like a promising new movie, with a Texas connection — but Apple has shelved it

dallasnews.com - The streaming revolution took a sharp detour recently, when Apple announced its decision to pull from theatrical release its debut movie, The Banker, starring Samuel L. Jackson and Anthony Mackie. Th…Tweeted by @dallasnews https://tw...

Getting at the root of the school to prison pipeline

nctq.org - This fall, the staff and board of NCTQ spent an afternoon visiting the Legacy Museum in Montgomery, Alabama, a project of the Equal Justice Initiative designed to upend Americans' sorry understanding…Tweeted by @equityandjust https://twitt...

City Puts $50,000 Toward Moving and Restoring Historic Siloam School - Queen City Nerve

qcnerve.com - On Thursday morning, Mayor Vi Lyles and other city leaders joined Adria Focht, executive director of the Charlotte Museum of History, in front of the Siloam School, a historic school built for black …Tweeted by @queencitynerve https://t...

Opinion | The Newest Jim Crow

nytimes.com - Who loses? Nearly everyone. A recent analysis by a Brookings Institution fellow found that “efforts to reduce recidivism through intensive supervision are not working.” Reducing the requirements and …Tweeted by @NaolDuga https://twitter...

White Supremacy and Capitalism

medium.com - Generic, theoretical capitalism is inseparable from our current paradigm of advanced, hyper-consumerist, job-shipping, union-busting, soul-crushing neoliberalism. Prominent capitalists have fought de…Tweeted by @MYaseenHarris https://twi...