Protests over police violence and white supremacy have erupted in almost 600 US cities. A historian of black social movements says what’s happened after George Floyd’s death is unprecedented.
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That George Floyd died at the hands of four police officers is uncontested, but interpretations of his death and its aftermath differ greatly. The result is two starkly opposed narratives.
Sweeping changes were possible in the past because black leaders were willing to risk their lives and call out problems before they became crises.
The militarization of local police departments has been associated with an increase in police violence against citizens.
Low-income and minority groups are often reliant on cheaper modes of transport, but many find cycling to work problematic.
Research shows black men are less likely to exercise in white neighborhoods. Those who do jog report having police called and neighbors shun them.
Black Americans were left especially vulnerable to the economic impact of COVID-19 and history shows it will take them longer to rebound.
Decriminalizing medical and recreational marijuana may exacerbate racial inequality within the criminal justice system, among other things.
Marginalized groups said that they had experienced discrimination at the workplace, at the doctor and with the police.
Peele’s films reflect the way many African-American directors have used the horror genre to reflect the black experience.
It’s been a decade since the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, and blacks still haven’t fully recovered financially, leaving them unprepared if another recession hits.
The country’s ‘Black Mecca’ is hosting the Super Bowl. With the NFL’s national anthem controversy still lingering, this creates an undeniable paradox.
Old 19th-century agreements between the U.S. government which expelled Indigenous peoples from their land and gave it cheaply to white settlers continue to impact inequalities in the United States.
A minority politics scholar assesses black progress 52 years after MLK’s death based on poverty, jobs and wealth. ‘In some ways,’ she concludes, ‘we’ve barely budged as a people.’
In the 19th century, slaveholders advertised widely for runaway slaves and often hired men to track and capture fugitives. African-American communities offered sanctuary space to the runaways.
What are the race-related struggles that African-American students experience throughout their school years? Here’s the story of Tyrone.
More than 150 years of scholarship and activism hasn’t brought us any closer to consensus.
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Professor of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning, Tufts University
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Senior Lecturer of African American Studies, University of Florida
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Assistant Professor of History and Community Engagement, St. John Fisher University
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Assistant Professor of Psychology, Georgia State University
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Assistant Professor of Asian Pacific American Studies, Arizona State University
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Assistant Professor of Social Work, Policy, and Practice, University of Chicago
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Fellow, Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies, American University
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Professor of Government and Director of the Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies, American University School of Public Affairs
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Professor, University of Michigan
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Associate Professor of French Studies, University of Minnesota Duluth
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Senior Research Scientist at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University
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Professor of Sociology, University of Maryland
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Derek H. Alderman é um amigo do The Conversation.
Professor of Geography, University of Tennessee
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Professor of History, Binghamton University, State University of New York
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Professor of Psychology, Emeritus, Guilford College
