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Race, Crisis, and Resistance in the United States An Interview with Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor is an assistant professor in the Department of African American Studies at Princeton University. She is author of Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership, published in 2019 by the University of North Carolina Press, longlisted for a 2019 National Book Award for nonfiction, and a 2020 finalist for the Pulitzer in history. Taylor’s book From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation won the Lannan Cultural Freedom Award for an Especia...
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Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Source: Getty Summary: In an extraordinary year, the coronavirus pandemic did not deter protesters around the worldâdespite restrictions on protest rights and the danger of gathering in groups. Related Media and Tools If you enjoyed reading this, subscribe for more! Thank you! Check your email for details on your request. The year 2020 highlighted the resilience of protests around the globe. Despite the greatest public health challenge in over a century—and the viral threat, lockdowns, and increasingly repressive environment it triggered—p...
Racism is rampant on Omegle. Teens are working to hold racist trolls accountable. Kalhan Rosenblatt and Tony Lee © Provided by NBC News Earlier this month, Hidaya Saban and Alees Elshiek opened the video chat website Omegle for what they described as a social experiment. Omegle, which has been around for approximately a decade, allows users to be paired with strangers in a video chat at random — although Saban, 19, and Elshiek, 18, said they entered the college student section of the site where they were able to pick certain topic tags in order to be paired with those who ...