The Misogyny of Covid and White Supremacy
July 27, 2020
—Zillah Eisenstein
Covid has also laid bare the intimate structures of patriarchy and male privilege.
Category: Race & Ethnicity
On Learning and Relearning about White Privilege
July 13, 2020
— Stephanie M. Wildman
Reflections on one lawyer’s life of reckoning with the white privilege in law school and beyond.
Tracing Black Lives Matter Back in Time
July 7, 2020
—Paula C. Austin
Young Black people’s engagement in campaigns against anti-Black violence has a long history, even well beyond what many conventionally understand to be the civil rights movement.
White Women for Black Lives
June 11, 2020
—Zillah Eisenstein
Read a speech written for several rallies in the past week on behalf of #BlackLivesMatter and the multi-racial protests for an end to white supremacy and carceral rule.
Taking power from police and putting it into communities
June 10, 2020
—Jennifer E. Cobbina
Ending police killings of Black people will not take place by continuously investing in the police.
Black Study in a Time of Trouble: A Reading List
June 4, 2020
—Joshua M. Myers
The beauty of Blackness is its capacity for regard and wonder, even in the times of trouble. It is how we have lived.
Excerpt from Antiracism: An Introduction by Alex Zamalin
Read several excerpts from Alex Zamalin’s book Antiracism: An Introduction
A Lesson for Zoom Elementary
June 3, 2020
—Candis Watts Smith
This is the last week of COVID crisis-schooling for many of us, and there’s one more lesson that we should teach our children and remind ourselves before we move into a camp-less summer: racism isn’t over there or back then, it’s right where you live, right now.