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JUDGE KETANJI BROWN JACKSON BECOMES AMERICA’S FIRST BLACK ASSOCIATE SUPREME COURT JUSTICE AMID AN UNDERTOW OF RACIAL GERRYMANDERED ELECTORAL DISTRICTS Only three Republicans voted to confirm Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson…
Partisanship is the new code for racism Louisiana’s governors are extremely powerful. They are rarely overridden. In fact, the last actual veto override was 31 years ago. But yesterday the…
by Orissa Arend The play is “Reparations with OT and Mama NOLA” commissioned for performance at the Justice and Beyond Reparations Town Hall on March 12 and then performed again…
The Two Americas Debating Will Smith and Chris Rock Black people and white people aren’t necessarily discussing the Oscars slap in the same way. By Jemele Hill About the author:…
by Orissa Arend Local organizing coalition Justice and Beyond (J&B), Ashe Cultural Arts Center, and the National African American Commission on Reparations joined forces on March 12 to assemble a…
by Seanna Leath Ph.D. Black women’s friendships are critical for connectedness and community. KEY POINTS Friendships allow Black women to gather and carve out safe emotional and psychological spaces away…
by C.C. Campbell-Rock Everyone agrees that no knock warrants are dangerous. No knock warrants are often deadly. The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers,…
by The Bronfenbrenner Center for Translational Research A new systematic review categorizes microaggressions and their consequences. KEY POINTS A review organizes microaggressions into categories such as “pathologizing differences” and “denigrating…