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Belfast city centre Frederick Douglass statue finally gets planning green light

The council received anonymous objections suggesting a lack of consultation

Belfast Live

Isaac Julien review – lithe bodies, a lynching and a televisual paean to lust

Julien’s complex and ambitious work leaves you reeling with its richness as it touches on Aids adverts and stolen artefacts, migrant workers and 80s riots

The Guardian - UK

Commentary: College campus hecklers, your disruptions don’t count as free speech

America is experiencing two disturbing simultaneous trends: the rise of mob censorship to shut down speaking events on college campuses, and an attempt to justify it as merely the exercise of “more speech.”

Los Angeles Times

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The Times reported about Justice Thomas' gifts 20 years ago. After that he stopped disclosing them.

It was 2004 when the Los Angeles Times disclosed that Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas had accepted expensive gifts and private plane trips paid for by Harlan Crow, a wealthy Texas real estate investor and a prominent Republican donor.

Los Angeles Times

Painting a new pantheon: portrait series honours Black radicals

Artists and writers pay tribute to figures who resisted slavery and racism, as part of Guardian project exploring the paper’s links to enslavement

The Guardian - UK

From the archive: how the Guardian covered slavery

The paper supported abolition – but backed payment for enslavers, and criticised more radical campaigners. In the US civil war, the editors refused to support the north

The Guardian - UK

How our founders’ links to slavery change the Guardian today

The Guardian is facing up to, and apologising for, the fact that its first editor drew his wealth from a practice that was a crime against humanity

The Guardian - UK

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The Declining Political Significance of Irish-American Identity

Conflict between Irish-Americans and WASPs was once a major feature of American politics. Its near-total disappearance is a hopeful development that we can learn from.

Reason

Sen. Tim Scott is a different kind of Republican who could reshape the 2024 election

It should also be noted that making a show of presidential ambition early but then backing off has been an excellent way to get on the national ticket, albeit in the role of running mate.

WEKU

The brief but shining life of Paul Laurence Dunbar, a poet who gave dignity to the Black experience

Paul Laurence Dunbar was only 33 years old when he died in 1906.

The Conversation

40 years after 'Reading Rainbow,' LeVar Burton is still fighting for literacy

LOS ANGELES — Sitting in a booth at a Hollywood coffee shop across from LeVar Burton, there's no denying the passion in his eyes when he talks about literacy and how reading is not only a tool that unlocks doors to success but also a civil right.

Los Angeles Times

Former reporter pens bio about the incredible life of Black Civil War veteran in new book, 'The Sergeant'

Shortly after 9/11, a group of Palestinian students had some questions for an American reporter about the lives and history of Muslims in America that sent him on a decadeslong journey, researching and writing about Muslims who had been in the United States since a few years after the Mayflower…

Tribune News Service

Another Judge on the Acela Corridor Takes The Thirteenth Amendment Seriously

Judge Matey's concurrence sketches out the original meaning of "involuntary servitude."

Reason

The Continuing Relevance of Frederick Douglass

Douglass is best-known for his role in the abolitionist movement that helped end slavery. But much of his thought is also relevant to contemporary issues.

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Maryland artist’s sculpture of civil rights leader set to replace Robert E. Lee statue at US Capitol

Steven Weitzman is going to bring a civil rights icon to life in the U.S. Capitol.

Tribune News Service

Wes Moore takes oath of office as Maryland’s first Black governor

ANNAPOLIS, Md. — Wes Moore, placing his hand on a Bible once owned by abolitionist Frederick Douglass, took his oath of office Wednesday to become Maryland’s 63rd governor, the state’s first and the country’s only current Black chief executive.

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Wes Moore takes oath of office as Maryland’s first Black governor

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Gov.-elect Wes Moore embraces Maryland’s Black history as he readies for historic oath of office

BALTIMORE — The inauguration day of Westley Watende Omari Moore as Maryland’s first Black governor is shaping up to look like a walk through history.

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Bristol Post

Bristol writer has spent decades bringing 'strangers' together through story

"Inclusivity needs to be about changing what we’re trying to get into - there’s no point adding people to something that’s rotten"

Salon

Cori Bush: GOP tokenizes speaker nominee

“His name being in the mix is not progress—it’s pathetic," the progressive lawmaker said

The Guardian - US

Buffalo turns focus to food justice after supermarket shooting

The shooting at Tops Friendly Markets reignited conversations around food insecurity in Black communities – and residents are reimagining and rebuilding

The Guardian - US

US House votes to remove bust of judge who wrote Dred Scott decision defending slavery

Supreme court justice Roger Taney wrote 1857 decision justifying slavery, widely regarded as one of worst rulings in history

The Guardian - UK

The Swiss mountain with a racist name – and the artist fighting to rechristen it

Agassizhorn is an alp in Switzerland named after a notorious scientist. Sasha Huber explains why she flew to the summit by helicopter and rechristened it Rentyhorn – in honour of an enslaved man

Chicago Sun-Times

Abraham Lincoln is a role model for today’s turbulent times

When Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Jon Meacham writes about someone as complex as Lincoln, and a time more divisive than today, there are important lessons to learn.

The Conversation

Justice Clarence Thomas and his wife have bolstered conservative causes as he is poised to lead the Supreme Court rolling back more landmark rulings

With the opening of the U.S. Supreme Court’s new session on Oct. 3, 2022, Clarence Thomas is arguably the most powerful justice on the nation’s highest court.

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