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Dispatches From Freedom Summer: The Ghosts of Greenwood
Editor’s note: This article was originally published by ProPublica. In 1947, my father, along with his mother and older brother, boarded a northbound train in Greenwood, Miss. They carried with them nothing but a suitcase stuffed with clothes, a bag of cold chicken, and my grandmother’s determination that her children—my father was just 2 years…
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Can Income Help Integrate US Campuses?
In light of Monday’s Supreme Court decision, ProPublica‘s Nikole Hannah-Jones examines what some people think could be a more acceptable way of ensuring diversity on America’s campuses: affirmative action based on class. The latest chapter in this national struggle was supposed to come with the U.S. Supreme Court’s consideration of an affirmative action case involving…
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Race Didn't Actually Cost Abigail Fisher Her Spot at UT
Writing at ProPublica, Nikole Hannah-Jones explains what she says the Supreme Court affirmative action case is really about. … Publicly, Fisher and her supporters, chief among them the conservative activist who conceived of the case, have worked to make Fisher the symbol of racial victimization in modern America. As their narratives goes, she did everything…
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Bob Johnson Urges African Americans to Support Liberia
When Delta became the first American airline in many years to fly into Liberia last month, billionaire Robert “Bob” Johnson had a prime seat on that plane. That’s because the inaugural flight was part of Johnson’s ongoing effort to spur investment in the formerly war-torn West African nation. Since hearing Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf…
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The Sordid History of Racial Hoaxes
No one knows why Bethany Storro decided to mutilate her own face with acid late last month. Obviously deeply troubled, she was sane enough to make a calculated decision to maximize sympathy and deflect suspicion. She blamed it on a black person. And the fake acid attack became the latest twist on a tactic as…
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