Editor’s Note: This story was originally published by The 19th in 2023. Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre, died at 111 years old Monday. More than 100 years later, Viola Fletcher can still vividly remember the smell of her thriving neighborhood — dubbed America’s “Black Wall Street” — burning. Fletcher, now […]
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How Do We Teach Black History in Polarized Times? Here’s What It Looks Like in Three Cities.
This story about Black history in schools was produced by The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Sign up for the Hechinger newsletter. One day this spring, Victoria Trice’s high school students in downtown Louisville, Kentucky, peered through virtual reality headsets as part of a lesson on […]
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Beyoncé’s ‘Renaissance’ celebrates Black queer joy. O’Shae Sibley’s killer tried to strip that away.
Originally published by The 19th, your trusted source for contextualizing LGBTQ+ news. Sign up for our daily newsletter. Since its release last year, Beyoncé’s “Renaissance” has been celebrated as a love letter to Black queer dance culture.For an hour and two minutes, the album offers listeners a chance at freedom of expression, a brief respite […]
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Birmingham Public Transit Inches Forward With Federal Help, and No State Funding
This article originally appeared on Inside Climate News, a nonprofit, independent news organization that covers climate, energy and the environment. Sign up for their newsletter here. BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — When she was a child in Charleston, S.C., Marva Douglas remembers she had to ride in the back of the bus to visit the zoo, museum, […]
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Black and Latino Students Are Struggling with Mental Health. This Program Could Help.
When Sandra Kalu was in high school, the majority of her teachers were white, while her classmates were mostly Black and Latino. The disparity mattered. One incident, she says, still sticks in her mind. A teacher admitted to her class that he would cross the street any time he saw a Black or Latino man […]
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Activist at 14, Burned Out by 26. Today, Emani Davis Teaches That to Change the World, You Must Also Take Care of Yourself
This story is published in partnership with MindSite News, a nonprofit digital news site that reports on mental health issues. Sign up for the MindSite News Daily newsletter here. When Devon Adams got out of a Washington State prison after 22 years, he hit the ground running. Toward the end of his stint, he’d begun working […]
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We need to rethink discipline in schools
This story was produced in partnership with Vox as part of the discrimination issue of The Highlight. For many Black children, their first encounter with the discrimination that will trail them their whole lives comes from the school system — a system where they are five times more likely to attend a segregated school than their white counterparts. […]
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AI automated discrimination. Here’s how to spot it.
This story was produced in partnership with Vox as part of the discrimination issue of The Highlight. Say a computer and a human were pitted against each other in a battle for neutrality. Who do you think would win? Plenty of people would bet on the machine. But this is the wrong question. Humans created computers, and […]
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How Car Culture Fuels Racial Inequality
This story was produced in partnership with Vox as part of the discrimination issue of The Highlight. When a Nevada police officer pulled over Leisa Moseley-Sayles in 2010, she was new to Las Vegas. She was getting a divorce and going through a custody battle, raising four young children, and working on a political campaign. Money was tight. […]
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Discrimination Isn’t Just Infuriating. It Steals Black People’s Time.
This story was produced in partnership with Vox as part of the discrimination issue of The Highlight. After a long search, Keisha Orr — a human resources manager working on Wall Street in the early 2000s — believed she had found the perfect candidate for a job at her financial tech company. The applicant had it all: an […]