What We're Reading: Our Eyes on the Future
Transcendent Kingdom, Yaa Gyasi
Franchise: The Golden Arches In Black America, Marcia Chatelain
Heaux Tales, Jazmine Sullivan (album)
Transcendent Kingdom, Yaa Gyasi
Franchise: The Golden Arches In Black America, Marcia Chatelain
Heaux Tales, Jazmine Sullivan (album)
Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America, James Forman Jr.
No Ashes in the Fire: Coming of Age Black and Free in America, Darnell L. Moore
The Vanishing Half, Brit Bennett
Nice White Parents (podcast)
Jubilee: Recipes From Two Centuries of African-American Cooking, Toni Tipton Martin
The food world is imploding over structural racism. The problems are much bigger than Bon Appétit.
Food Justice (Food, Health, and the Environment), Robert Gottlieb & Anupama Joshi
People of Color are at Greater Risk of COVID-19. Systemic Racism in the Food System Plays a Role.
The Cooking Gene, Michael Twitty
Nothing Protects Black Women From Dying in Pregnancy and Childbirth
Serena Williams Could Insist That Doctors Listen to Her. Most Black Women Can’t.
Knocking the Hustle: Against the Neoliberal Turn in Black Politics, Lester K. Spence
Fragmented Democracy: Medicaid, Federalism, and Unequal Politics, Jamila Michener
Gentrification, Displacement and the Role of Public Investment: A Literature Review
‘Black branding’ — how a D.C. neighborhood was marketed to white millennials
In gentrified cities which came first: Starbucks or higher real estate prices?
D.C. Fights Back Against Colonizers Who Want to Ban Go-Go Music From an Iconic City Corner
Horror Noire (book), Dr. Robin R. Means Coleman
“Why Does Obama Scold Black Boys?”, Derecka Purnell
‘Better Is Good’: Obama on Reparations, Civil Rights, and the Art of the Possible
“The Obama Boys”, Nathan J. Robinson
“Ta-Nehisi Coates Is an Optimist Now: A conversation about race and 2020”
“Reflections on the ADOS Movement”, Roderick Graham
Six times victims have received reparations — including four in the US
“Beyond the Rising Tide: Reparations for Slavery Have to Be More Than a Symbol”, Briahna Gray
H.R.40 - Commission to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African-Americans Act
What Are Reparations and Why Are They a Hot Ticket Item in 2020?
The Green New Deal, Rhiana Gunn-Wright and Robert Hockett
Clean and White: A History of Environmental Racism in the United States, Carl A. Zimring
Racial and Class Bias in Zoning: Rezonings Involving Heavy Commercial and Industrial Land Use in Durham (NC), 1945–2014, Andrew H. Whittemore
Civil Rights Are Green: A Concise History of Environmental Racism and Justice in the US
2020 Democrats Embrace Race-Conscious Policies, Including Reparations
“Pretty Hurts,” Code Switch [podcast episode]
The Federal Job Guarantee - A Policy to Achieve Permanent Full Employment
Rutger Bregman at Davos | Rutger Bregman vs. Tucker Carlson [videos]
Hurricane Florence and the Displacement of African-Americans Along the Carolina Coast
“The Forgotten People of New Orleans”: Community, Vulnerability, and the Lower Ninth Ward, Juliette Landphair
Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston
Should Art Be a Battleground for Social Justice?
HURRICANE FLORENCE RESOURCES
The Incredible, Rage-Inducing Inside Story of America’s Student Debt Machine
Black Women Graduate With Most U.S. Student Loan Debt, Study Says
New Federal Data Show a Student Loan Crisis for African American Borrowers
Lower Ed: The Troubling Rise of For-Profit Colleges in the New Economy, Tressie McMillan Cottom
Paying the Price: College Costs, Financial Aid, and the Betrayal of the American Dream, Sara Goldrick-Rab
In 2017, N.C. university graduates owed an average of $26,164 in student loans
Entertaining Beliefs in Economic Mobility, Eunji Kim
English as Michigan’s official language? How Lansing spends its time.
How the NFL sold patriotism to the U.S. military for millions