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The white working class knows the American project isn’t working. Here’s why that will never matter to them

Access to power over other racial groups is their preferred political currency

The Guardian - US

Out of the shadows: why Avril Coleridge-Taylor deserves to be heard

The daughter of the British composer Samuel made controversial choices that took her on a different path to her father’s activism. Ahead of the premiere recording of her piano concerto, its soloist looks at a musician who learned the hard way about ‘belonging’

The Guardian - UK

The voice of Disco Elysium's Ancient Reptilian Brain performed the game's famous karaoke scene live and in costume

The Smallest Church in Saint-Saëns.

PC Gamer

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‘An incredibly political moment’ – why fashion and the Met Gala are celebrating Black dandyism

This year’s Met theme is ‘Superfine: Tailoring Black Style’ and focuses on Black men’s strategic use of fashion. Author of the text the show is inspired by, Monica L. Miller talks about why it’s being celebrated at this year’s show and gala

The Guardian - UK

Courtney B. Vance to narrate audio edition of prize-winning W.E.B. Du Bois biography

Award-winning actor Courtney B

The Independent UK

Philadelphia continues long history of Black-led protest meetings aimed at fighting racial inequity and prejudice

A meeting in Philadelphia, held at a senior center on a bitter cold Saturday afternoon in late January 2025, drew nearly 300 people.

The Conversation

Blaming Bill Buckley for Racism, January 6, and More

Historian David Austin Walsh tries and fails to rebut Jonah Goldberg's Liberal Fascism thesis.

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5 Years Later, This Fascinating RPG Shattered One Studio and Inspired Four More

There's really nothing like 'Disco Elysium,' a fascinating political detective RPG that just passed its fifth anniversary.

Inverse

Body of missing American found on Phuket beach

The body of a US tourist was found washed ashore on Tuesday at Phuket's Nai Harn beach, where he had been swept out to sea while swimming with his wife and child on Sunday.

Bangkok Post

Hate cannot be reasoned with. So why is Black radio hosting ‘conversations’ with Candace Owens?

The darling of the far right recently appeared on The Breakfast Club and Joe Budden’s podcast – exploiting Black America’s willingness to forgive

The Guardian - US

Silent Cavalry review: Howell Raines’ fine work on southern resistance

The former New York Times editor’s remarkable book on Alabamians fighting for the Union in the civil war, and his own family history

The Guardian - US

Target pulls Black History Month book that misidentified 3 civil rights icons

The magnet book mixed up W.E.B. Du Bois, Booker T. Washington and Carter G. Woodson. Target said it will no longer sell the book in stores or online and that it notified the publisher of the errors.

WEKU

In the worst of America's Jim Crow era, Black intellectual W.E.B. Du Bois found inspiration and hope in national parks

In his collection of essays and poems published in 1920 titled “Darkwater,” W.E.B. Du Bois wrote about his poignant encounter with the beauty of the Grand Canyon, the stupendous chasm in Arizona.

The Conversation

Medicare open enrollment ends today. Ignoring the deadline could cost you

As the period for changing health plans ends, many seniors are tuning out. They could wind up with a surprise next year: higher costs and reduced access to health care providers.

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The Walrus

Is Africa’s Pain Black America’s Burden?

The civil rights movement improved the lives of African Americans as well as African Canadians. Conditions in Africa, meanwhile, have become increasingly dire—and are increasingly ignored

The Conversation

What are the liberal arts? A literature scholar explains

The term “liberal arts” is one of the most misunderstood terms in the public discourse on higher education today. A higher education expert once said that putting the words “liberal” and “arts” together was a “branding disaster” – one so toxic that it was undermining public support for higher education.…

Real Homes

How to organize a desk (even if it’s small!)

Want to see how to organize a desk? Even if yours is super tiny, like in a dorm, we have easy tips to help get that clutter under control once and for all.

The Guardian - US

‘I wish he had finished his book’: Chad L Williams on WEB Du Bois

Brandeis professor discusses how an unpublished manuscript by the great Black intellectual inspired his own epic work

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The Wounded World review: brilliant biography of WEB Du Bois at war

Chad L Williams charts the great Black intellectual’s journey through the first world war. It makes essential reading

The Guardian - UK

Time Come by Linton Kwesi Johnson review – 50 years of rhyme and rage

The poet’s collection of essays, an archive of social and racial flashpoints, pay tribute to the Caribbean artists whose radicalism shaped his verse

The Conversation

W.E.B. Du Bois, Black History Month and the importance of African American studies

The opening days of Black History Month 2023 have coincided with controversy about the teaching and broader meaning of African American studies.

Salon

Those who rule want to crush knowledge

The ruling class does not want us to know who we are, or to understand the struggles of those who came before us

The Conversation

US is becoming a 'developing country' on global rankings that measure democracy, inequality

The United States may regard itself as a “leader of the free world,” but an index of development released in July 2022 places the country much farther down the list.

The Conversation

A white librettist wrote an opera about Emmett Till – and some critics are calling for its cancellation

“Are Black audiences, actors, and producers simply conditioned to having their stories told by white counterparts?” screenwriter and director Darian Lane, who is Black, wondered in a 2021 op-ed for Ebony.

Chicago Sun-Times

This week in history: W.E.B. Du Bois debates a racist

In March 1929, a debate brought Black scholar and activist W.E.B. Du Bois and eugenicist Lothrop Stoddard to Chicago to argue for and against Black civil rights. Here’s how it went down.

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