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Leaning how long racism has been harming white people, too

November 6, 2022 by Samuel James
sea of eerie pale hands reaching up in distress

My co-producer Florence Edwards and I have spent the last 18 months or so working on a podcast. It’s called 99 Years and it’s a Black exploration of the deliberate creation of the whitest state in the nation: Maine. It debuted a few weeks ago and there are three episodes out so far, so please …

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Categories Commentary, Racial and Cultural, White folks 3 Comments

White discomfort causes harm 

November 1, 2022October 28, 2022 by Shay
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I am not certain when I discovered that life was not always going to be a comfortable experience for me. But if I had to guess, I suspect it was when I started kindergarten and was seated in the back of the classroom, as one of the only Black kids in the classroom.  While I …

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Categories Racial and Cultural, White folks 2 Comments

The permanence of racism—is there any hope?

October 21, 2022February 19, 2022 by Shay

In the years prior to my dad’s untimely death in 2020, our relationship was tense at times. To be frank, Dad—while he was proud of my professional accomplishments—struggled with the context of my anti-racism work. As a Black man born and raised in the Deep South under Jim Crow, Dad often felt that while individual …

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Categories Activism, Racial and Cultural, White folks 3 Comments
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