Category: Race and Ethnicity in America
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“Staggerlee wonders” is a poem that could have been written for the current moment, a poem imbued with the spirit of #BlackLivesMatter, with the heartbreak and the anger of #ICantBreathe.
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Though Martin Luther King, Jr. accepted the Nobel Peace Prize fifty years ago today, it’s clear that his message of hope and resilience are as necessary now as ever before.
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Beacon talks with Jarek Steele, co-owner of St. Louis’s Left Bank Books, about their Black Lives Matter reading list and discussion group, and the bookstore’s longtime commitment to social justice.
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Thomas Norman DeWolf, co-author of GATHER AT THE TABLE: The Healing Journey of a Daughter of Slavery and a Son of the Slave Trade, reacts to the grand jury’s decision in the Eric Garner case.
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Sharon Leslie Morgan, co-author of GATHER AT THE TABLE: The Healing Journey of a Daughter of Slavery and a Son of the Slave Trade, reacts to the grand jury’s decision in the Eric Garner case.
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Rosa Parks was arrested in Montgomery, Alabama, on December 1, 1955, for refusing to surrender her seat on a bus to a white passenger. In an excerpt from The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks, Jeanne Theoharis traces the aftermath of Parks’s arrest and the lead-up to the bus boycott, and shows exactly what was…
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This year, in the 40th anniversary of the explosion that was Boston busing, ALL SOULS author Michael Patrick MacDonald says it’s time to be clear: busing wasn’t just about black and white. It was also about green—who had some in their pockets, and who didn’t.
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Cornel West’s BLACK PROPHETIC FIRE is an unflinching look at nineteenth- and twentieth-century African American leaders and their visionary legacies. It’s also a roadmap to how we can move beyond Ferguson and our current moment of racial disillusionment.
