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Charles Blow's 'The Devil You Know' Is A Black Power Manifesto For Our Time S ome time into his new book The Devil You Know: A Black Power Manifesto, Charles Blow recalls hearing Harry Belafonte give a speech. The subject was Belafonte's bailout of some student members of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC.) Belafonte had raised $70,000 in bail money and called up his best friend Sidney Poitier to help him deliver the money. But it was not easy. Belafonte recalled how he and Poitier were chased by the Ku Klux Klan, whose members accosted them at the airport; Belafonte and...

Terms like ‘Chinese virus’ by US Secretary of State, increased bias against Asian-Americans: Study The term was popularized by Trump’s secretary of state Mike Pompeo among others By Hanie Abdul Razak|   Updated: 23rd January 2021 4:59 pm IST Representative image (IANS) In a study published by two PhD students from the University of California, Berkeley it was found that popularization of terms like “Wuhan Flu” and “China Virus” by the US secretary of state among other Republican figures and conservative media outlets increased unconscious bias against Asian-Americans...

By Charles M. Blow Jan. 8, 2021 ATLANTA — A year ago this week, I packed some bags and left New York City for Atlanta. … But the exquisite fierceness of the city, its blur of ambition and ingenuity, didn’t hide the fact that many of my fellow Black New Yorkers were locked in perpetual oppression — geographically, economically and politically isolated. All around the North, Black power, if it existed, was mostly municipal, or confined to regional representation. Black people were not serving as the dominant force in electing governors or senators or securing Electoral College votes. �...

The Good Men Project Become a Premium Member We have pioneered the largest worldwide conversation about what it means to be a good man in the 21st century. Your support of our work is inspiring and invaluable. When Police Use Force: 3 Essential Reads At issue is what is called police 'use of force.' Following the fatal police shooting of 22-year-old Stephon Clark, an unarmed black man in Sacramento, protesters have gathered to express anger over his death. At issue is what is called police “use of force.” That’s when police exert physical force to make an individual comply with their or...

Jan. 8, 2021 A young supporter at a rally for Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff in Atlanta in December.Credit...Damon Winter/The New York Times ATLANTA — A year ago this week, I packed some bags and left New York City for Atlanta. I’d lived in New York for 26 years. The city made me feel awake and alive — buildings tickling the sky, trains snaking underfoot. There was a seductive muscularity to the city, a feeling of riding the razor between your destiny and your demise. I had become a New Yorker, a Brooklyn boy. There I had raised my children. There I planned to live out my days.