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In the short, out-of-focus video, Davon McNeal stands in front of a whiteboard fastened to a blue wall and speaks about courage.
“Frederick Douglass said,” the sixth-grader tells his classmates, “once said, ‘If there is no struggle, there is no progr...
DATE: Jul 13, 2020
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In the first cartoon Elizabeth Montague published in The New Yorker, two black women stand on a rooftop that overlooks a darkened cityscape.
Above them, a Batman-inspired spotlight beams a message into the night sky: Per my last e-mail.
Beneath them,...
DATE: Feb 03, 2020
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When Brandt Jean offered forgiveness, then a hug, to the former police officer who walked into his brother’s apartment and fatally shot him, the gesture revealed a societal split.
Some saw it as a powerful show of grace. Others saw it as a disappoint...
DATE: Oct 11, 2019
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Humiliated. That’s how Stephen Benson felt as a teenager standing in Union Station, wondering how he ended up in handcuffs.
An officer had run up to him and a friend, and yelled: “Up against the wall!”
Benson thought he might be talking about a since...
DATE: Dec 17, 2018
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