Anti-Racism Resources

Our democracy hangs in the balance. This is not an overstatement.
June 8, 2020

Garnette Cadogan on the Realities of Being Black in America

This article first appeared in Peace and Freedom Magazine, July/August, 1989, pp. 10-12, a publication of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, Philadelphia, PA.

In June 1981, Audre Lorde gave the keynote presentation at the National Women’s Studies Association Conference, Storrs, Connecticut.

From tone policing to whitesplaining, the liberal white women's feminism is more toxic than they realize, explains Rachel Cargle.

Two hundred fifty years of slavery. Ninety years of Jim Crow. Sixty years of separate but equal. Thirty-five years of racist housing policy. Until we reckon with our compounding moral debts, America will never be whole.

An illustrated representation and article of the Tusla Massacre in 1921 where White rioters destroyed a beacon of Black prosperity and security. They killed as many as 300 black Tulsans and left thousands homeless.

Only during the very short period between the passage of the Voting Rights Act in 1965 and now that the question of ethical policing has been entertained at a national level with any pretense of sincerity. In all the years before this period, policing extended from the legally encoded and broadly embraced preservation of an explicit caste hierarchy. It is only during this recent period that ethical and effective policing even enters the legal imagination as a possibility and confronts the modern United States as a problem.