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Although Portland, Oregon, is sometimes called “America’s Whitest city,” Black residents who grew up there made it their own. The neighborhoods of Northeast Portland, also called “Albina,” were a haven for and a hub of Black community life. But between 1990 and 2010, Albina chang ... Show More

Newburgh is a small postindustrial city of some twenty-eight thousand people located sixty miles north of New York City in the Hudson River Valley. Like many other similarly sized cities across America, it has been beset with poverty and crime after decades of decline, with few o ... Show More

Hey there LemoNation! Join Don this evening at 6pm ET to dive into all the biggest news items of the day. Mother Jones correspondent Garrison Hayes and civil rights leader Rashad Robinson will join Don to discuss a host of topics. Are Vice President Harris’ appeals to Black men w ... Show More

While the world waits for the next big revelations on Diddy, pundits, critics, celebrities and fans are all speculating over who knew about his crimes, and crucially, did nothing. Candace Owens and academic Marc Lamont Hill discuss the scandal, focusing particularly on whether th ... Show More

In Academic Apartheid: Race and the Criminalization of Failure in an American Suburb (U California Press, 2022), sociologist Sean J. Drake addresses long-standing problems of educational inequality from a nuanced perspective, looking at how race and class intersect to affect mode ... Show More

<p>Kamala Harris pulled a blaccent at her Atlanta rally with musical guests Megan The Stallion and Quavo. Does this pandering work on the black community? Let’s talk about it.</p> <p><br></p> 

Could a woman of colour be the next president of the United States? That is what much of America has been asking this week and it is at the heart of our conversations. Race remains a major political and social issue in the US and there is plenty of discussion about Ms Harris’s ba ... Show More

Send us a textIn the spring of 1921 a suburb outside of Tulsa Oklahoma the black community of Greenwood aka Black Wall Street was thriving. Greenwood was one of the most affluent neighborhoods in America, and all this in the face of Jim Crow era laws. Tensions were high with the ... Show More

Writer Alvin Hall returns to Wakulla County, Florida, the world he grew up in, to shed light on the political present and share a haunting portrait of a disappearing way of life. It has long been deeply rural, a place of unspoilt wilderness and incredible natural beauty. But it h ... Show More

This book shows how a century of redlining, disinvestment, and the War on Drugs wreaked devastation on Black people and paved the way for gentrification in Washington, DC. In Before Gentrification: The Creation of DC's Racial Wealth Gap (U California Press, 2023), Tanya Maria Gol ... Show More