By Jamil Smith @JamilSmith A hated people need safe spaces, but often find they are scarce. Racism aims to crowd out those sanctuaries; even children changing into church choir robes…
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By Roberto A. Ferdman The Confederate flag flies near the South Carolina Statehouse, Friday, June 19, 2015, in Columbia, S.C. (AP Photo/Rainier Ehrhardt) In the aftermath of Thursday’s tragedy in…
By Rebecca Traister When, on Wednesday night, a 21-year-old white man named Dylann Roof entered the Charleston church founded by former slave Denmark Vesey on the anniversary of Vesey’s planned 1822 slave…
By Ta-Nehisi Coates Last night, Dylann Roof walked into a Charleston church, sat for an hour, and then killed nine people. Roof’s crime cannot be divorced from the ideology of…
By: Peniel E. Joseph People stand outside the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C., June 18, 2015, after a mass shooting at the church the night before…
By: Laura Saunders Egodigwe Official Juneteenth Committee in Austin, Texas, June 19, 1900In 1865, enslaved Africans on Galveston Island, Texas, had been declared free two years earlier but didn’t know…
By Alicia Garza A mourner grieves during a prayer vigil at the Morris Brown African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C., on Thursday, June 18, 2015. Nine people were murdered…
By Kali Holloway In so many ways, the story of Dylann Roof, the shooting suspect who allegedly killed nine people in an historic South Carolina black church, is a parallel…
Jason Miczek/Reuters By Dean Obeidallah Tragedy? Yes. Act of unspeakable evil? Check. But it’s important that we don’t flinch from calling it what it was—an act of terrorism. The Charleston…
By: Khyla D. Craine Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C. In the late 1790s, Richard Allen and former enslaved people in Philadelphia were tired of praying in the…
David Goldman / AP By Yoni Appelbaum On Wednesday night, Dylan Roof, a 21-year-old white man, walked into a prayer meeting at Charleston’s Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church. For an…
Dorothy Johnson-Speight Responses to Violence and Crime Philadelphia, PA Galen Baughman Indefinite Detention Arlington, VA Maya Foa Capital Punishment London, UK Rachel Herzing Policing Oakland, CA Andrea James Incarceration’s Impact…
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