The 2016 Election Exposed Deep-Seated Racism. Where Do We Go From Here?
This wasn’t an election. It was an exposure. That was a common thread of the 2016 Facing Race conference in Atlanta, Georgia, where more than 2,000 activists, community organizers, and journalists from...
View ArticleThe Uncommon Compassion of ‘Moonlight’
Moonlight—Barry Jenkins’s coming-of-age tale about gay black love—is personal. The film was inspired by In Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue, a stage piece written—and shelved—a decade ago by playwright...
View Article‘We Have to Be Better at Telling the Truth’: Jamilah Lemieux on the Media’s...
Writing while black isn’t an easy thing. Since it’s not the default viewpoint (i.e., white), any nod toward racial identity is likely to get blowback for being “too political.” But after a campaign...
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