No Man’s Land
Fear, racism, and the historically troubling attitude of American pioneers.
Fear, racism, and the historically troubling attitude of American pioneers.
Eula Biss The Believer Feb 2008 30min Permalink
On Ferguson, Cosby, and what ‘racial progress’ really means.
Frank Rich New York Dec 2014 30min Permalink
A rodeo rider squares off with a racist immigration official.
"He saw deputies in their serious hats coming through the restaurant from the kitchen, four white guys who looked like they meant business, serious, minds made up, and Nachee thought of a grandfather now from the other time, more than a hundred years ago, Nachitay, sitting in Mi Nidito with Victor’s grandfather from the same time, Victorio. Sometimes Nachee talked to Victor about those guys living the way they chose to. You hungry? Run off a mule, cut steaks and cook them over a fire. Before General Crook came along on his mule, the one Nachee’s grandfather from that other time was dying to eat. Bring them all here to sit with their rifles, Victorio, Cochise, Geronimo … those guys doing whatever they wanted. They never carried ID but every horse soldier in the Arizona Territory knew who they were."
Elmore Leonard The Atlantic Jul 2012 10min Permalink
A complex look at an act of small town violence.
"There wasn’t time to think about it, though, because Jim had already opened his car door and was running up the concrete incline toward where the two men were sleeping, and there was two of them and one of him, so I kicked off my slides in the floorboard and grabbed hold of my blackjack and run up the hill after him."
Kyle Minor Plots With Guns Oct 2008 Permalink
Jurors from the Emmett Till trial revisit the case 50 years later.
Richard Rubin New York Times Magazine Jul 2005 20min Permalink
A journey into the world of Italy’s racist soccer thugs.
Wright Thompson ESPN Jun 2013 40min Permalink
Inside the White Student Union of Towson University.
Wes Enzinna Vice May 2013 20min Permalink
Revisiting a 30-year-old beating death in St. Louis.
Tony D'Souza, Tom Finkel The Riverfront Times Dec 2012 Permalink
Alex Haley interviews the Honorable Elijah Muhammad’s number two - Malcolm X - in a Harlem restaurant.
Alex Haley, Malcolm X Playboy May 1963 35min Permalink
Race relations at the gigantic and soul-crushing Smithfield slaughterhouse, where annual turnover is 100 percent: 5,000 people are hired, 5,000 quit.
Charlie LeDuff New York Times Jun 2000 25min Permalink
The audacity of Bill Cosby’s black conservatism.
Ta-Nehisi Coates The Atlantic May 2008 25min Permalink