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David Harewood on Blackface review – a shocking, deeply moving piece of television

In a personal look at the shocking origins of minstrelsy, the actor speaks truth to power on the same channel that showed blackface in his living room when he was growing up

The Guardian - UK

California faces backlash as it weighs historic reparations for Black residents

The state has become the focus of the nation’s divisive reparations conversation as it advances its reparations efforts

The Guardian - US

Supreme Court opens the door to gut civil rights, fair housing laws

Substitute “African American” for “LGBT+” in the case of Colorado web designer Lorie Smith, and you’ve got a return to the bad old days of Jim Crow when so many alleged Christians insisted their religion required separation of the races, a lawyer writes.

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How new state laws and book ban movements have made the teaching of US history contentious – 5 essential reads

Of all the subjects taught in America’s public schools, few have become as contentious as U.S. history. At least 37 states have adopted new measures that limit how America’s undeniable history of racism – from chattel slavery to Jim Crow – can be discussed in public school classrooms.

The Conversation

Heirs to Black-owned homes face ramped-up foreclosures. Here’s who’s pushing back

When Henry Scott’s mother died two years ago, there was never a doubt he’d want to keep her home. He most definitely did.

McClatchy Washington Bureau

POINT: State of the republic — precarious

The state of the republic is precarious, but I am hopeful that democracy will prevail because it is resilient. We the people have faced serious threats in the past, including even a Civil War, and we have overcome them. We must continue to pass laws to strengthen our democracy in…

Tribune News Service

Book bans led to "expunging" impeachment

Authoritarians don't just want to control the distant past, they feel entitled to erase events we all remember

Salon

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Juneteenth, Jim Crow and how the fight of one Black Texas family to make freedom real offers lessons for Texas lawmakers trying to erase history from the classroom

The news was startling.

The Conversation

How America's Growing Diversity Weakens the Case for Racial Preferences in Education

Affirmative action becomes harder to defend when it entails discrimination against a variety of racial and ethnic minority groups.

Reason

Historic acquittal in Louisiana fuels fight to review 'Jim Crow' verdicts

Criminal justice advocates have struggled at the Louisiana Legislature as they seek legal relief for hundreds of people convicted of serious crimes by nonunanimous juries

The Independent UK

'I was wrong': Shemy Schembechler contrite in statement after resignation

Glenn "Shemy" Schembechler, in a lengthy statement, said he has promoted "Black excellence" throughout his career in football, and that the Black players he has known are among the "great influences" in his life.

Tribune News Service

Shemy Schembechler Apologizes for Social Media Activity After Michigan Ouster

The son of Bo Schembechler stepped down from as assistant director of football recruiting just three days after he was hired.

Sports Illustrated

Rep. Cori Bush introduces bill on reparations for Black Americans

The bill, Reparations NOW, calls for $14 trillion to Black Americans as compensation for slavery and Jim Crow.

WEKU

Jim Crow Creek officially renamed Larni Barramal Yaluk

Central Victoria's Dja Dja Wurrung people and their supporters have been pushing for Jim Crow Creek to be renamed for more than a decade, finally earning a new entry in the government gazette.

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The Independent UK

White woman whose accusations led to Emmett Till’s lynching in 1955 has died

Carolyn Bryant Donham was at the centre of Till’s murder, underscoring a brutal legacy of Jim Crow-era racist violence

Tribune News Service

Harlan Crow: There’s nothing wrong with my friendship with Clarence Thomas

DALLAS — Harlan Crow believes he and U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas are the victims of a “political hit job.”

The Independent UK

House where King planned Alabama marches moving to Michigan

An Alabama home where Martin Luther King Jr. and other civil rights leaders planned the 1965 Selma to Montgomery marches has been sold to a historical museum in Michigan and will be moved to a site near Detroit for preservation

AFP

VP Harris heads to Tennessee as Black lawmakers booted from assembly

Washington (AFP) - Vice President Kamala Harris headed to the southern US state of Tennessee on Friday as the expulsion of two Black legislators from the state assembly escalated into a major row over race and representation.

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Souls Grown Deep Like the Rivers review: a display of ‘redemptive’ works

It took both ingenuity and courage for African Americans to become artists in the Jim Crow-era Deep South, said Maya Jaggi in the FT. The region’s black inhabitants typically received no education beyond primary level and were limited to low-paid jobs, making materials like oil paint all but unaffordable. Since…

Pioneer Press

At 100, St. Paul WWII vet Gordon Kirk ‘still trying to be of assistance to others’

ST. PAUL, Minn. — There were four generations of Gordon Kirks at Holy Trinity Episcopal Church in St. Paul on Sunday morning.

The Conversation

Mexico's help to American women who need abortions should inspire Canada

When a draft of an upcoming United States Supreme Court decision curtailing legal abortion access in the U.S. leaked in May 2022, Karina Gould, Canada’s minister of families, children and social development, declared that Americans seeking abortions would be welcomed north of the border.

The Guardian - US

‘I cried for a long time’: Black hair stylist’s dream crushed by racist neighbor

Angel Pittman says her dream to create a mobile hair salon was thwarted when a neighbor harassed her with racist comments and vandalized her buses

WEKU

He was with Emmett Till the night he was murdered. The horror haunts him still

The Rev. Wheeler Parker Jr. was just 16 years old when his cousin and best friend, Emmett Till, was lynched in 1955. Today, he is the last living witness of the kidnapping.

The Independent UK

McClellan to become 1st Black woman to represent Virginia

Democrat Jennifer McClellan is set to be sworn in to the U.S. House, becoming the first Black woman to represent Virginia in Congress

Salon

Let’s give thanks to the "Dilbert" guy

In a single YouTube rant, Scott Adams put the lie to reverse racism

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