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‘Indecency has become a new hallmark’: writer and historian Jelani Cobb on race in Donald Trump’s America

In a new essay collection, the dean of Columbia University’s graduate school of journalism makes a compelling argument that everything is connected and nothing is inevitable about racial justice or democracy

The Guardian - US

Kerouac’s Road: The Beat of A Nation – this documentary can’t reconcile nostalgia with the true contemporary US

When Jack Kerouac published On the Road in 1957, he presented the novel as the product of a single marathon writing binge. It was a method he had been working on since the late 1940s that his friend Allen Ginsberg dubbed “spontaneous bop prosody”.

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‘The world needs to know what happened to my baby’: inside devastating new police bodycam film The Perfect Neighbor

Composed almost entirely of footage filmed by police, The Perfect Neighbor is a harrowing documentary about a black woman shot by her white neighbour in Florida. The director reveals how she made it

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5 years after George Floyd’s murder: How the media narrative has changed around the killing and the protests that followed

On the evening of May 25, 2020, George Floyd was murdered by police outside a grocery store in Minneapolis.

The Conversation

For Black men, fashion has been a tool of self-expression — and a way they've been judged

Clothing as message

The Independent UK

Don’t taste the rainbow: New Florida bill looks to ban Skittles and other tasty treats

Florida bill SB 560 would give food producers until January 1, 2028 to remove certain additives

The Independent UK

Daniel Penny’s acquittal reveals ‘double standard’ about white vigilante crime

In longstanding pattern in the US, white killers are celebrated and Black victims denigrated, experts say

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In 2014, protests around Michael Brown's death broke through the everyday, a catalyst for change

Ten years ago, in August 2014, when a white police officer shot and killed Black 18-year-old Michael Brown on the streets of Ferguson, Missouri, protests erupted in the nation’s consciousness

The Independent UK

Prominent Civil Rights Lawyer Benjamin Crump Represents Black Victims

Benjamin Crump, 'Black America’s attorney general,' represents families in high-profile cases of police brutality and racial injustice, aiming to increase ...

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Tony winner Miles Frost captivates as Trayvon Martin in Origin

Get a sneak peek into the making of Ava DuVernay's film Origin, featuring an insightful interview with the talented actor Miles Frost, who portrays Trayvon...

The Guardian - US

Ava DuVernay: ‘We need to wake up. We’re less than a year away from a transition of power’

The acclaimed film-maker talks about her conversation-starting new film Origin, working outside of the studio system and why Black women are so often gaslit

Evening Standard

Origin movie review: Ava DuVernay has made much better films than this didactic trudge

It covers an important and fascinating subject and is based on a highly respected book, but this laboured film is a real disappointment

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The Guardian - UK

Origin review – a heartfelt look at a journalist challenging the concept of race

There are solid performances in this dramatisation of Isabel Wilkerson’s attempt to explain racism as an aspect of the caste system, but it may have been better as a documentary

The Independent UK

‘License to kill’: How ‘Stand Your Ground’ gun laws are fuelling random shootings and racism across the US

Josh Marcus reports on a growing body of laws making it easier to ‘shoot first and ask questions later’

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‌El Video Del Dniversario De Trayvon Martin Genera Controversia Sobre La Edición Engañosa

‌El New York Times acusado de calumniar y provocar tensiones raciales con una edición engañosa en el video de Trayvon Martin.

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Trayvon Martin Anniversary Video Sparks Controversy Over Misleading Editing

New York Times accused of slandering and stirring racial tensions with deceptive editing in Trayvon Martin video.

The Independent UK

Black Lives Matter movement to mark 10 years of activism, renews call to defund the police

The Black Lives Matter movement turns 10 years old on Thursday, marking the day in 2013 that the man who fatally shot Trayvon Martin was acquitted in his death

Evening Standard

Black Lives Matter 10-year anniversary: Why was it founded and what has changed?

The international movement took off after the death of Trayvon Martin in 2012

Chicago Tribune

In 1997, a 13-year-old was beaten by white Chicago teens. A podcast challenges the racial narrative that followed

CHICAGO — The new podcast “You Didn’t See Nothin” takes a critical look at the media narrative that followed the 1997 Bridgeport neighborhood beating of 13-year-old Lenard Clark Jr., a Black child who lived in Chicago's Stateway Gardens public housing development, going to get air for his bike tire, by…

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