“Who’s Afraid of Black History?”
Henry Louis Gates Jr. draws a parallel between a supporter of the Lost Cause and Ron Desantis.
Say Their Names
A New Yorker cover by Kadir Nelson.
Mitt Romney marching
The world may not be upside down, but it’s certainly tilting a bit more.
A Class Divided
For anyone who hasn’t (or has) seen the Frontline documentary A Class Divided (1985), this would be a good time to watch (or watch again).
“Will History Stop Repeating Itself?”
A short film by Spike Lee.
Same as it ever was
remember talking on the telephone with my dad about the death of Amadou Diallo. My dad put it simply: “If he’d been white, he’d be alive.” That was 1999. And now again, with the death of George Floyd, as with so many other deaths: If he’d been white, he’d be alive. I think it really is that simple.
Stopping at a rest stop with your swim team while black
I think that this story deserves wide attention.
MLK
From Martin Luther King’s “The Other America,” a speech delivered at Grosse Pointe South High School, Grosse Pointe, Michigan, March 14, 1968.
Recently updated
Lands’ End, angling for (so-called) millennials.
Lands’ End: The White Album
The Lands’ End catalogue may never have been a great document of the variousness of Americans, but its recent incarnations appear to have taken a sharp turn for the white.
Mitt Romney, soaking in it
It’s called white privilege, and Governor Romney, you’re soaking in it.
Bob Herbert on present danger
Bob Herbert’s latest column
Keith Woods on media and race
From the PBS NewsHour