Articles & Letters
Articles
Guide to Allyship • Amélie Lamont, GuideToAllyship.com
Reflections on systemic racism in higher education, July 2020 • James H. Johnson, Jr., Ph.D., Higher Education Works
What it means to be anti-racist, June 2020 • Anna North, Vox
Jim Crow Laws, updated June 2020 • History.com editors, History.com
Justice Too Long Delayed, June 2020 • Timothy Dalrymple, Christianity Today
Reflections From a Token Black Friend, June 2020 • Ramesh A. Nagarajah, Medium
Your Black Colleagues May Look Like They’re Okay—Chances Are They’re Not, May 2020 • Danielle Cadet, Refinery29
America’s racial contract is showing, May 2020 • Adam Serwer, The Atlantic
Performative Allyship Is Deadly (Here’s What to Do Instead), May 2020 • Holiday Phillips, Medium
White Fragility in Students, February 2020 • Jenna Chandler-Ward & Elizabeth Deveni, Teaching While White
White mom to racists: ‘Don’t use my child to further your hate-filled ignorance, January 2020 • Edith Love, MLK50
We Must Dismantle White Supremacy, 2020 • Ben & Jerry's Homemade, Inc.
21 Racial Microaggressions You Hear On A Daily Basis, November 2019 • Heben Nigatu, BuzzFeed
America wasn’t a democracy, until black Americans made it one, August 2019 • Nikole Hannah-Jones, New York Times
Balancing the Ledger on Juneteenth, June 2019 • Vann R. Newkirk II, The Atlantic
A House Still Divided, October 2018 • Ibram X. Kendi, The Atlantic
The Myth of the Kindly General Lee, June 2017 • Adam Serwer, The Atlantic
Frederick Douglass, Refugee, February 2017 • David W. Blight, The Atlantic
Black lives and the police, August 2016 • Darryl Pinckney, The New York Review of Books
The Average Black Family Would Need 228 Years to Build the Wealth of a White Family Today, August 2016 • Joshua Holland, The Nation
White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack, July 1989 • Peggy McIntosh, Peace and Freedom
Letters
Statement from President Blount on the Death of George Floyd, May 2020 • Rev. Dr. Brian K. Blount, Union Presbyterian Seminary
A Message from the Chancellor, May 2020 • Franklin D. Gilliam, Jr., UNC Greensboro Office of the Chancellor
What it’s like to be Black in Naperville, America, July 2016 • Brian Crooks, Chicago Tribune
Letter from Birmingham Jail, August 1963 • Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
The Freedman’s Story February 1860 • William Parker, The Atlantic