The Legend of A-N-N-A: Revisiting an American Town Where Black People Weren’t Welcome After Dark
The history of a sundown town.
The history of a sundown town.
Logan Jaffe ProPublica Nov 2019 25min Permalink
A white friend admitted that she had never seen a single photo of a lynching. I was shocked, but not surprised. A lynching was a warning. She didn’t need to be warned.
Maurice Carlos Ruffin Oxford American Sep 2019 15min Permalink
A young British man was drawn to a white-supremacist group, until they started plotting to kill.
Ed Caesar New Yorker May 2019 Permalink
The answer to the disparity in death rates has everything to do with the lived experience of being a black woman in America.
Linda Villarosa New York Times Magazine Apr 2018 40min Permalink
The long fight against racism in romance novels.
Lois Beckett The Guardian Apr 2019 30min Permalink
“I admit it,” she says, in her hotel room. “I’m a troll. I’m the queen of the fucking trolls.”
Geoff Edgers Washington Post Mar 2019 20min Permalink
The story of a lynching in rural CO in 1900, while hundreds watched, done with the complicity of press and cops, and why it still resonates today.
Alan Prendergast Westword Nov 2018 25min Permalink
Whiteness as disease in a skin-cancer ridden Australia.
Madeleine Watts The Believer Oct 2018 30min Permalink
On the legacy of Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
Vann R. Newkirk II The Atlantic Jun 2018 20min Permalink
An important house in Florida history is for sale, its future uncertain. Some want the historic house preserved, while the racism that fueled the Rosewood riots remains.
Lane DeGregory Tampa Bay Times Jun 2018 10min Permalink
It’s a made-up label.
Elizabeth Kolbert National Geographic Mar 2018 10min Permalink
An encyclopedic evisceration of the NFL owner and former Six Flags chairman.
Dave McKenna Washington City Paper Nov 2010 20min Permalink
How the GOP took control of state politics in Alabama, leaving black lawmakers—and their constituents—powerless.
Jason Zengerle The New Republic Aug 2014 30min Permalink
Forty-seven years later, two daughters meet.
John Eligon New York Times Dec 2017 10min Permalink
“The specific dissonance of Trumpism—advocacy for discriminatory, even cruel, policies combined with vehement denials that such policies are racially motivated—provides the emotional core of its appeal. It is the most recent manifestation of a contradiction as old as the United States, a society founded by slaveholders on the principle that all men are created equal.”
Adam Serwer The Atlantic Nov 2017 50min Permalink
An examination of race, sex, and visible secrets.
Christine Ma-Kellams Atticus Review May 2017 10min Permalink
A black android faces horrible human racism, sexual assault and realities; NSFW.
Chesya Burke Apex Magazine Apr 2017 10min Permalink
An interview with Rachel Dolezal.
Ijeoma Oluo The Stranger Apr 2017 15min Permalink
A near future with racial voting restrictions and questionnaires.
Kashana Cauley Slate Feb 2017 15min Permalink
An annual re-enactment drags America’s history of racist violence into the light.
Peter C Baker The Guardian Nov 2016 25min Permalink
He was white nationalism’s heir apparent. Then he went to college.
Eli Saslow Washington Post Oct 2016 25min Permalink
“As my acting career developed, I was no longer cast as a radical Muslim – except at the airport.”
The activists fighting for police reform in the wake of a video that showed a black teenager shot 16 times by a white cop.
Ben Austen New York Times Magazine Apr 2016 15min Permalink
Religion, high school football, and racial problems in small town America.
Jared Yates Sexton New Mexico Review Dec 2015 10min Permalink
"Some of you probably think it’s a bad thing to group ourselves according to skin color—the lighter the better—in social clubs, neighborhoods, churches, sororities, even colored schools. But how else can we hold on to a little dignity?"
Toni Morrison New Yorker Feb 2015 10min Permalink