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My Adoptive Parents Hid My Racial Identity from Me for 19 Years

By Melissa Guida-Richards — 2021

My parents successfully passed me off as a dark-skinned Italian for 19 years of my life.

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The Intersectionality Wars

When Kimberlé Crenshaw coined the term 30 years ago, it was a relatively obscure legal concept. Then it went viral.

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Jane Coaston
2019
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The Past Is a Very Living Thing: Try Not to Forget It

The Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers petition to Pope Benedict XVI asking to revoke the three papal bulls authorizing the conversion and subjugation of the Indigenous Peoples of America.

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Joan Chittister
2009
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James Baldwin Insisted We Tell the Truth About This Country. The Truth Is, We’ve Been Here Before

In each generation we have to experience the haunting ritual of a Black family grieving in public over the loss of a loved one at the hands of the police.

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Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
2020
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The History that James Baldwin Wanted America to See

As both James Baldwin and Martin Luther King, Jr., insisted, America is an identity that white people will protect at any cost, and the country’s history—its founding documents, its national heroes—is the supporting argument that underpins that identity.

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Eddie S. Glaude, Jr.
2020
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Q&A with the Rev. William Barber, Building “Fusion Coalition” that Unites People Against Poverty

Barber makes clear his belief that the role of Christians is to call for social justice and allow the “rejected stones” of American society—the poor, people of color, women, LGBTQIA people, immigrants, religious minorities—to lead the way.

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Alexandra Greenwald
2020
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American Democracy Cannot Breathe

Yes, we must radically transform policing in America. But we cannot stop there. We must transform the pervasive systems of economic and carceral injustice that are choking our common life.

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William Barber, Saru Jayaraman
2020
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How Mindfulness Can Defeat Racial Bias

There might be a solution to implicit racial bias, argues Rhonda Magee: cultivating moment-to-moment awareness of thoughts, feelings, and surroundings.

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Rhonda Magee
2015
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Misty Copeland Says Ballet Industry Is ‘Extremely Behind’ on Racial Equality, Justice

Misty Copeland is speaking out about racial injustice and inequality in ballet.

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Claudia Harmata
2020
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