The Massacre That Emboldened White Supremacists By William Briggs and Jon Krakauer An hour after sunset on Easter Sunday in 1873, a stern-wheel riverboat put ashore at Colfax, La., a ramshackle settlement surrounded by cotton plantations on the east bank of the Red River. Rain was falling. As passengers disembarked, they found themselves stumbling in the dark over…
Read More The Colfax MassacreWhen Corrections Fail: The persistence of political misperceptions Brendan Nyhan and Jason Reifler Abstract An extensive literature addresses citizen ignorance, but very little research focuses on misperceptions. Can these false or unsubstantiated beliefs about politics be corrected? Previous studies have not tested the efficacy of corrections in a realistic format. We conducted four experiments in…
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Read More Free Professional MaterialsFact check: Police gave Kyle Rittenhouse water and thanked him before shooting Eric Litke USA TODAY Aug. 29, 2020 Kyle Rittenhouse, a 17-year-old from Illinois (above left) who considers himself a militia member, has been charged as an adult with one count each of intentional homicide and reckless homicide for the Aug. 25 shooting. He’s also charged with…
Read More Kyle RittenhousePull Out of the Kentucky Derby? Pressure on a Black Owner Mounts Greg Harbut, the rare Black owner of a horse in America’s biggest race, says the predominantly white sport must change. But at a moment of social unrest, others question why he is racing at all. By Joe Drape Sept. 3, 2020 In any other year,…
Read More Kentucky DerbyNASA’s Jeanette Epps set to be first Black woman to join long-term ISS crew Jeanette Epps had to wait a little longer than expected for her ISS assignment. Photo: NASA There is a history of African-American astronauts on space shuttle missions, including Mae Jemison, who became the first Black woman in space in 1992. Notably,…
Read More Jeanette EppsThe Biden-Harris ticket is ‘DNC approved.’ Yesterday (8/20/20), Joe Biden officially accepted the Democratic party’s nomination for president – more than 30 years after his first run for it. He said the US was facing “four historic crises” – the coronavirus pandemic, the economic crisis, racial injustice, and climate change. But that the country can “overcome this season of…
Read More Convention UpdatesHow does the history of racial slavery shape our world today? Racial slavery was at the center of the Atlantic World’s economy for centuries. One of its primary legacies is that white supremacy and anti-black racism became so deeply ingrained in the Atlantic World that they became part of the structures of society that remain…
Read More Racial Slavery in the AmericasRoger Goodell wishes the NFL ‘had listened earlier’ to Colin Kaepernick By Cindy Boren August 24, 2020 at 11:25 a.m. EDT NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell directly addressed Colin Kaepernick in an interview released Sunday, saying “I wish we had listened earlier” to the former quarterback who in 2016 began kneeling during the pregame playing of the national…
Read More Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black ManDaughter of Haitian Immigrants to Be 1st Black Woman on N.J. High Court Fabiana Pierre-Louis, 39, will also be the only Black judge currently seated on the state’s Supreme Court. By Tracey Tully Aug. 24, 2020, 12:15 p.m. ET A former assistant U.S. attorney in New Jersey, Ms. Pierre-Louis was nominated by Gov. Philip D. Murphy, a Democrat,…
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