The Supreme Court has not banned the use of race in college admissions. Learn how 'race neutral' metrics disadvantage Black, Latinx, Native, and many Asian students.
Ibram X. Kendi
Partner • #GirlDad • Scholar @BU_Tweets • Dir @AntiracismCtr • @NationalBook Award Winner • #1 NYT Bestselling Author • MacArthur Fellow • Surviving Cancer 🐍
This blog post looks at the media's unequal treatment of aggression videos, depending on the skin color of the people involved. It questions the media's motivations for either celebrating or preventing the diffusion of such videos.
Philippe Lemoine
I'm a PhD candidate in philosophy at Cornell. I'm also a research fellow at @CSPICenterOrg. I write about stuff. "At least he's pretty smart." (@bechhof)
Explore the history of African Americans during the Civil War and how they distinguished between abolishing slavery and freeing people. Learn about the definitions of slavery and freedom from the perspectives of formerly enslaved people.
Ibram X. Kendi
Partner • #GirlDad • Scholar @BU_Tweets • Dir @AntiracismCtr • @NationalBook Award Winner • #1 NYT Bestselling Author • MacArthur Fellow • Surviving Cancer 🐍
In his latest book, How to Raise an Antiracist, author Ibram X. Kendi offers a vulnerable and personal look at how to protect children from racist messages. He explains the importance of recognizing and countering racism in order to create a better future for all.
Ibram X. Kendi
Partner • #GirlDad • Scholar @BU_Tweets • Dir @AntiracismCtr • @NationalBook Award Winner • #1 NYT Bestselling Author • MacArthur Fellow • Surviving Cancer 🐍
Comics are a powerful form of storytelling, allowing us to explore complex histories and ideas. Stamped from the Beginning is a must-see graphic novel by Joel Christian Gill that explores the history of racism. Learn more about this incredible work!
Ibram X. Kendi
Partner • #GirlDad • Scholar @BU_Tweets • Dir @AntiracismCtr • @NationalBook Award Winner • #1 NYT Bestselling Author • MacArthur Fellow • Surviving Cancer 🐍
The Three-Fifths Compromise was proposed at the Congress of the Confederation in 1783 and added to the US Constitution four years later. Its legacy endures through prisons and has a lasting impact on the US today.
Ibram X. Kendi
Partner • #GirlDad • Scholar @BU_Tweets • Dir @AntiracismCtr • @NationalBook Award Winner • #1 NYT Bestselling Author • MacArthur Fellow • Surviving Cancer 🐍
In Hebron, NY, a group of friends searched for a friend’s house and pulled into the wrong driveway. As they left, a White man named Kevin Monahan came outside and fired two shots at the car, tragically murdering 20-year-old Kaylin Gillis. This story serves as a reminder that White supremacy is a real and dangerous issue.
Ibram X. Kendi
Partner • #GirlDad • Scholar @BU_Tweets • Dir @AntiracismCtr • @NationalBook Award Winner • #1 NYT Bestselling Author • MacArthur Fellow • Surviving Cancer 🐍
On Easter Sunday in 1873, White supremacists used violence to expel three Black and White officeholders in Colfax, Louisiana, resulting in the deadliest attack on democracy during the Reconstruction era.
Ibram X. Kendi
Partner • #GirlDad • Scholar @BU_Tweets • Dir @AntiracismCtr • @NationalBook Award Winner • #1 NYT Bestselling Author • MacArthur Fellow • Surviving Cancer 🐍
Thaddeus Stevens, a Radical Republican born on this day in 1792, was a prominent abolitionist and Congressman. Here's a look at his legacy.
Ibram X. Kendi
Partner • #GirlDad • Scholar @BU_Tweets • Dir @AntiracismCtr • @NationalBook Award Winner • #1 NYT Bestselling Author • MacArthur Fellow • Surviving Cancer 🐍
My daughter's friends all signed up for SHSAT tutoring, then changed their minds when they looked at the admission stats for Black kids. Seeing how few Black students were successful enough to gain entry, they decided it was better not to try.
Ida Bae Wells
Reporter @nytmag//Creator #1619Project//EP #1619Hulu//Co-founder @IBWellsSociety //Founder @c4jdhowardu //Knight Chair @howardu//
On this day in 1866, Pres. Andrew Johnson vetoed the first-ever Civil Rights Act, which allowed Black people to become U.S. citizens. In his veto message, Johnson expressed the now popular White supremacist talking point that any equity effort amounted to “anti-White” racism.
Ibram X. Kendi
Partner • #GirlDad • Scholar @BU_Tweets • Dir @AntiracismCtr • @NationalBook Award Winner • #1 NYT Bestselling Author • MacArthur Fellow • Surviving Cancer 🐍
This blog explores the right's revisionist race-history and their strange ideas about their ideological enemies. It also looks at how the right has stolen a presidency and engages in election-rigging.
Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr Red Team Blues
Author, journalist, activist. Touring "Red Team Blues," an anti-finance finance thriller https://t.co/fpDYDNRrr7
My paper, "The Curious Case of Black Conservatives: Assessing the Validity of the Liberal-Conservative Scale among Black Americans" is now accepted at Public Opinion Quarterly. This paper looks at the disconnect between the overwhelming majority of Black Americans who identify with the Democratic Party and those who identify as conservative.
Hakeem Jefferson
Assistant prof @Stanford political science. I think about identity, stigma, race, and politics more than any normal person should. Lover of life. Pro-democracy.
There is no such thing as a 'race neutral' policy. There are only racist policies, which produce inequitable and unjust outcomes, and antiracist policies, which produce equitable and just outcomes. This thread discusses the impact of these policies on racial equality.
Ibram X. Kendi
Partner • #GirlDad • Scholar @BU_Tweets • Dir @AntiracismCtr • @NationalBook Award Winner • #1 NYT Bestselling Author • MacArthur Fellow • Surviving Cancer 🐍