racial violence

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• 11/17/19
  

  Cracked Foundations: The Case for Reparations

  by Julia Brown

  Compensation for historically disadvantaged minorities is nothing new.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  8/31/19
  

  Recovering the Memory of a Black Church Destroyed During the ‘Red Summer’

  Beyond the lynchings, 1919 became notable for another tactic that white mobs used to strike at the heart of African-American communities: attacking black churches just as they were emerging as the center of black life in America.

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• SOURCE: FiveThirtyEight
  8-13-17
  

  Presidential Responses To Racial Violence Have Often Been Weak

  Trump’s is weaker.

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• Black People Have a Duty to Bear Witness to Racial Violence

  by Kidada E. Williams

  As the people who have testified about this recent violence in court, on television, or on social media make clear, African Americans take racial violence personally, and with good reason.