Civil Rights and Healthcare: Remembering Simkins v. Cone (1963)
Upon her release from L. Richardson Memorial Hospital’s maternity ward in Greensboro, North Carolina, my grandmother, Ann Wilson Scales, walked
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Desegregation
Race, Class, and Television: A First Look at Brazil’s Dystopic Drama 3%
3% is Netflix’s latest original series ordered up from Latin America, and the first from Brazil. Set in a dystopic
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Why the Academic Achievement Gap is a Racist Idea
“Standardized tests have become the most effective racist weapon ever devised to objectively degrade Black minds and legally exclude their
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Head Start and Mississippi’s Black Freedom Struggle: An Interview with Crystal R. Sanders
This month, I interviewed Crystal R. Sanders about her new book, A Chance for Change: Head Start and Mississippi’s Black
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On the Racist Ideas Jesse Owens Could Not Outrun
It is always quite difficult for me to watch Hollywood biopics on celebrated African Americans figures. Too many of these
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