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Zak Cheney-Rice

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Hartford, CT, United States

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Toni Morrison's ability to capture black American life was incomparable

How often is perhaps the greatest novelist in modern American history also among its most insightful documentarians of the color line and its wages? The answer, to my knowledge, is once, so far: Toni Morrison, the 86-year-old Nobel Prize winner and… → Read More

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Colin Kaepernick featured in Nike “Just Do It” 30th anniversary campaign, along with Serena Williams

LeBron James, Odell Beckham Jr. and others are also featured in the campaign. → Read More

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Black legislator gets police called on her while canvassing her own district on Fourth of July eve

It was Independence Day eve, but that didn't stop a black legislator from being treated like a would-be criminal in her own district. → Read More

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Eugene Rice was lynched in 1918. This April, I drove to southern Georgia to learn if he was family.

My grandfather grew up just miles from where Rice died and had the same last name. Tracing their ties took me to Valdosta, Georgia, and a new lynching memorial in Montgomery, Alabama, seeking answers. → Read More

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My mother left Tennessee in 1968. Fifty years after Martin Luther King Jr.’s death, she came back.

The wound opened in America on April 4, 1968, has never been fully healed. → Read More

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Is Marvel’s ‘Black Panther’ the endgame of the revolution that blaxploitation started?

Quantifying the debt that Marvel's 'Black Panther' owes to the low-budget black action movies that came before it → Read More

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Philadelphia Eagles players are already refusing to visit Donald Trump’s White House

This marks the second consecutive year in which members of Super Bowl-winning teams have refused to be honored by President Donald Trump. → Read More

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Black Monuments

The Charleston Nine is the collective name for the nine people murdered at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina, in June 2015. → Read More

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Black Monuments

Toni Morrison is a Nobel Prize-winning author who has written several acclaimed novels, including → Read More

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Black Monuments

Marsha P. Johnson was a gay liberation activist who was instrumental in the Stonewall rebellion of 1969. → Read More

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Black Monuments

Mary Mahoney was the first black licensed nurse in United States history. → Read More

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Black Monuments

The debt that the civil rights movement and its later iterations owe to Recy Taylor is incalculable. → Read More

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Black Monuments - America is covered in Confederate statues. We can do better — and here’s how.

Mic’s latest editorial effort — the Black Monuments Project — aims to correct this sordid legacy through a blend of history and imagination. → Read More

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Martin McDonagh always used black characters as props. In ‘Three Billboards,’ it caught up with him.

Where 'In Bruges' and 'Seven Psychopaths' stumble almost imperceptibly, 'Three Billboards' plummets. → Read More

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Why are media outlets so fascinated by how normal Nazis are?

The 'New York Times' was fascinated over the weekend by the tension between being a white supremacist and a normal human being. This tension does not exist. → Read More

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How LiAngelo Ball fell into Donald Trump’s race trap

Donald Trump has found new clout with his base by framing black athletes as ingrates. These three UCLA basketball players fell right into his hands. → Read More

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This ‘Atlantic’ essay is trying really hard to convince you that Republicans aren’t racist

It did not do a great job. → Read More

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Marvel gave indigenous director Taika Waititi its worst franchise in ‘Thor.’ He turned it around.

A little racial equity goes a long way. → Read More

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A white man allegedly killed 26 people at a Texas church, and white Americans will be fine

Muslims and nonwhite people face large-scale punishment following crimes by people who look like them. But after Texas, white life will likely continue uninterrupted. → Read More

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Conservatives are outraged over Virginia attack ad that depicts Ed Gillespie’s campaign honestly

Ed Gillespie has race-baited his way to political relevance. Conservatives are mad that his opponents are using it against him. → Read More