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Reading Racism: Don't Let Books Become Victims of Our Discourse on Race
At a time when racist actions fill our newsfeeds and send us into a low-grade depression, the last thing we want to see is the n-word in our children’s schoolbooks. So the recent decision of a Virginia mother to ask that state’s Accomack County to remove Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and To Kill a Mockingbird…
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Remembering Hurricane Katrina: We’ve Come This Far by Faith
There is no peace inside a hurricane. The wind sounds like a howling dog. The shutters on the windows of your old house rattle as if a sci-fi predator were trying to break in. Your family sits in a circle with their faces tight, occasionally gasping when a tree cracks in two, a tin garbage…
Black News and Black Views with a Whole Lotta Attitude
