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The Mantra of White Supremacy – The Atlantic
The idea that anti-racist is a code word for “anti-white” is the claim of avowed extremists. By Ibram X. Kendi, November 30, 2021 About the author: Ibram X. Kendi is a contributing writer at The Atlantic and the Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities and the director of the Boston University Center for Antiracist…
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Rodney King Beating Was 30 Years Ago Today; Courtroom Sketches Now at Library | Library of Congress Blog
The Library [of Congress] recently acquired courtroom artist Mary Chaney’s sketches from the trials of Rodney King in Los Angeles from 1992-1994. The Black motorist was beaten viciously by white police officers after a high-speed chase in 1991. The acquittal of the officers in state court set off days of deadly riots and became a…
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This is the conversation about race that we need to have now | IDEAS.TED.COM
The great evil of American slavery wasn’t involuntary servitude, says public-interest lawyer Bryan Stevenson. It was the ideology of white supremacy used to justify it — and it’s an ugly part… Source: This is the conversation about race that we need to have now |
