“Has this situation made you fearful of cops?" she eventually asks. "I don't know," I say truthfully. "My uncle's a cop. I… — Angie Thomas Copy Share Image
“So much was lost—names, faces, ages, ethnic identities—that African Americans must do what no other ethnic group writ large must do: take… — Michael W. Twitty Copy Share Image
“As the historian David Krugler explains, “African Americans were not so much rioting as fighting back, counterattacking, repelling violence; above all, resisting.”79” — James Forman Jr Copy Share Image
“I remained abroad ten months, which was much longer than I had anticipated. During all that time, I never saw the slightest… — Harriet Ann Jacobs Copy Share Image
“He went on to make a series of preposterous-sounding claims—almost all of which would be borne out in the end: he would… — Joshua Green Copy Share Image
“I saw him enthusiastically greet a hulking big African American (Do they call them African Americans here?).” — Brett Kiellerop-Morris Copy Share Image
How did the party that elected the first black U.S. senator, the party that elected the first 20 African American congressmen, become… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
One consequence of racism and segregation is that many American whites know little or nothing about the daily lives of African Americans.… — James Forman, Jr Copy Share Image
“Many members of that early band of twentieth-century pilgrims must have yearned for the honesty of Southern landscapes where even if they… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
America is not perfect. It took a bloody civil war to free over 4 million African Americans who lived enslaved. It took… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
'Crazy Rich Asians' has been compared to 'Black Panther,' but I feel like that's a false equivalency. The idea that there's only… — Sonoya Mizuno Copy Share Image
“Daddy once told me there's a rage passed down to every black man from his ancestors, born the moment they couldn't stop… — Angie Thomas Copy Share Image
The harsh truth is that 'respectability' is the exorbitant tax we African Americans are forced to pay daily as we try to… — Jonathan Capehart Copy Share Image
African Americans, in particular, saw their cumulative wealth crash. They used to have 10 cents on the dollar of the average white… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
If you're looking at the people who head the institutions, there are very few African Americans or people of colour. I'm talking… — Lynn Nottage Copy Share Image
“because white men can't police their imagination black people are dying” — Claudia Rankine Copy Share Image
African Americans are not going to be fooled by any group supported by industrial polluters. They know climate change is real and… — Martin Luther King III Copy Share Image
There are more African Americans under correctional control, in prison or jail, on probation or parole, than were enslaved in 1850 a… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“Our endurance and suffering made us stronger than they can imagine. We became so strong that it takes only one of our… — De philosopher DJ Kyos Copy Share Image
“While the Reconstruction Era was fraught with corruption and arguably doomed by the lack of land reform, the sweeping economic and political… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
Oddly enough, Asians are a much smaller 'minority' than African Americans in this country. But because Asians are so successful, college admission… — Mike Gallagher Copy Share Image
'Traveling While Black' is about empathy, what African Americans experience in traveling throughout America, and how it hasn't changed that much from… — Roger Ross Williams Copy Share Image
Black immigrants and refugees have just as much at stake in the fight to make Black Lives Matter as African Americans do. — Opal Tometi Copy Share Image
“Whitepeople believed that whatever the manners, under every dark skin was a jungle. Swift unnavigable waters, swinging screaming baboons, sleeping snakes, red… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“Enslaved African Americans built the modern United States, and indeed the entire modern world, in ways both obvious and hidden.” — Edward E. Baptist Copy Share Image
