
Dear President: What You Need to Know About Race
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Dear President: What You Need to Know About Being 'Woke'
Samaria is the mother of Tamir Rice, the 12-year-old boy who was shot and killed by police at a playground across the street from his house in Cleveland in 2014. Nov 13, 2016
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Dear President: What You Need to Know About One Black Body
As a child who loved to jump Double Dutch and play with dolls, Robert Jones, Jr. knew he was gay early on but it took much longer for his grandfather to accept him. Nov 13, 2016
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Dear President: What You Need to Know About 'The American Dream'
Kirsten West Savali grew up in a prominent Mississippi family. She believed in the American Dream until she left her small town and couldn't find a job, a home or affordable healthcare. Nov 9, 2016
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Dear President: What You Need to Know About 'Nigga Neurosis'
If you’re black, you know that there’s this thing that happens where you’re always wondering if, and how, racism is involved with what you’re doing. Nov 9, 2016
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Dear President: What You Need to Know About an Uncomfortable Hope
11 years ago, Theo Shaw was wrongfully arrested and faced life in prison. Today he has a new understanding of hope. Nov 9, 2016
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Dear President: What You Need to Know About a Racialized Imagination
W.E.B. DuBois wrote famously about double-consciousness and the veil that separates black and white people. Kaitlyn Greenidge talks of being behind her own veil at a mostly white school. Nov 9, 2016