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On Surviving
Race massacre survivor Hughes Van Ellis has passed away
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From There to Here
My journey to becoming a published author winds back to my earliest memories
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A People's History
I hired my 13-year-old cousin to be a research assistant on my book. He's now a high school senior. We talked about all that he learned about race in…
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Noble Negroes
On the dangers of allowing historical figures to become symbols and sedatives
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Back for the First Time
A slightly new philosophy for Run It Back
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What the Tulsa Race Massacre Survivors Want
As an avalanche of commemoration events begin in Greenwood, the people who survived the attack await tangible forms of justice
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What the White Folks Know
For a century white people with ties to the mob that burned Greenwood have been silent about their family ties to the massacre. That may be starting to…
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The Story of Black Wall Street: What They Lost
A partial accounting
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The Story of Black Wall Street #017: Reparations Then, Reparations Now
This year I've been reporting on a reparations settlement achieved decades ago in Florida at the same time a new quest for economic justice was…
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The Story of Black Wall Street #012: Black Patriots
What it means to love America as a black person in the days between Juneteenth and the Fourth of July
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The Story of Black Wall Street #011: Rebuilding Black Infrastructure
Thinking about systemic change, on a personal level
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