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‘I don’t feel guilty but I really apologize if I hurt feelings’: MLS coach Ron Jans resigns after alleged racial slur
FC Cincinnati head coach Ron Jans has stepped down from the club amid a probe into the use of an…
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What You Need to Know About Candida Auris
C. auris is a mysterious and dangerous fungal infection that is among a growing number of germs that have evolved…
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The Shocking Lynching of Will Brown 100 Years Ago
Until the killing of black men, black mothers' sons, becomes as important to the rest of the country as the…
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Blacks, Native Americans and Whites: A Tale of Three Peoples
As European settlements inched west, Black, white and Native Americans, fleeing forced labour within their confines, melted into the interior…
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Take down monuments to Native American oppression
A larger-than-life bronze bust of Christopher Columbus surveys Pueblo, Colorado, from atop a 15-foot limestone column. The monument, designed by…
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Omaha race riot of 1919
The Omaha race riot occurred in Omaha, Nebraska, September 28–29, 1919. The race riot resulted in the brutal lynching of Will Brown, a black worker; the death of…
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NAACP calls to move slave auction block from city's downtown
A controversial slave auction block at the corner of William and Charles streets in downtown Fredericksburg has haunted many of…
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Regime Change in Charlottesville
If you understand why that Civil War statue really went up, the debate over removing it looks a lot different.…
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America is hooked on the drug of white supremacy. We're paying for that today
The United States is in a tailspin. White supremacists are on the march – and have left a trail of…
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As the U.S. gets more involved in Somalia, beware these three fallacies
The United States is getting more involved in Somalia, the nation in the Horn of Africa that has been wrestling…
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‘What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?’ by Frederick Douglass
This is the perfect time to read the entirety of Frederick Douglass’s famous speech, and not merely because of the…
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Take down monuments to Native American oppression
A larger-than-life bronze bust of Christopher Columbus surveys Pueblo, Colorado, from atop a 15-foot limestone column. The monument, designed by…
Read More » - Culture, Arts & Identity
From Detroit to Liberia: Why I Left America To Find Home
I am moving back to Liberia.” The words shocked me to say out loud. But after 26 years in the…
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The Collapse of American Identity
After the British writer G. K. Chesterton visited the United States for the first time, he remarked that America was…
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It’s Hard to Be What You Can’t See
“When we think about what it is to be ‘connected,’ we think about memory. We think about history. We think…
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