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White America: Awakened?

By Daniel Payne — 2021

George Floyd’s death powered a sustained and historically significant wave of activism among white Americans that will have wide-ranging political and policy implications, experts say.

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How Latino Catholics Are Grappling with Their Own History of Racism

The United States is going through a national examination of conscience on the question of race, and the Latino community is no exception.

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J.D. Long-García
2020
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21-Day Racial Equity Indigenous Challenge – Fighting White Supremacy Since 1492

“Just a reminder: the system in what is currently known as the US isn’t ‘broken.’ It was designed by male white supremacist slaveowners on stolen Indigenous land to protect their interests. It’s working as it was designed.” ~Dr. Adrienne Keene (Cherokee)

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Dr. Eddie Moore
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The Case for Reparations

Two hundred fifty years of slavery. Ninety years of Jim Crow. Sixty years of separate but equal. Thirty-five years of racist housing policy. Until we reckon with our compounding moral debts, America will never be whole.

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Ta-Nehisi Coates
2014
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The Case for Reparations: An Intellectual Autopsy

Four years ago, I opposed reparations. Here's the story of how my thinking has evolved since then.

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Ta-Nehisi Coates
2014
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Author Ta-Nehisi Coates Criticized Mitch McConnell for Saying Slavery’s Effects Were in the Past

Just one day after Mitch McConnell spoke out against reparations for slavery, author Ta-Nehisi Coates passionately argued in favor of them at a House hearing on the topic.

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Jasmine Aguilera
2019
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Dr. Serene Jones on Owning Up to the Legacies of Racism

Serene Jones discusses the concepts of grace and sin in this 2019 interview.

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Simran Jeet Singh
2019
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Nicole Cardoza Isn’t Writing Her Anti-Racism Newsletter for White People

Amid the nation’s protests, Cardoza began emailing current event explainers and action items to what ended up becoming thousands of subscribers, many looking for information and guidance in a year marked by sickness and brutality.

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Madison Feller
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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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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“Let Freedom Ring Wherever the People’s Rights Are Trampled Upon”: What We Can Learn from Nelson Mandela Today

Nelson Mandela was by nature an optimist, but he was as hard-headed as they come. He did not embrace the consoling view of history that, as Martin Luther King said (in a line often quoted by Barack Obama), “the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.

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Richard Stengel
2020
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