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Ta-Nehisi Coates, Angela Y. Davis make the case for reparations for families of lynching victims

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Ta-Nehisi Coates, Angela Y. Davis make the case for reparations for families of lynching victims

Let’s talk about reparations for the families of lynching victims

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Let’s talk about reparations for the families of lynching victims

Lasting police reform will require confronting roots of racism in American policing

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Lasting police reform will require confronting roots of racism in American policing

The untold stories of 123 Black people killed by white police officers in one Alabama county

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The untold stories of 123 Black people killed by white police officers in one Alabama county

“Murder in Mobile” honored with a Regional Emmy Award for best documentary
Murder in Mobile poster, with a man walking on the railroad tracks.

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“Murder in Mobile” honored with a Regional Emmy Award for best documentary

‘Let us pledge that our university will take action’

‘Let us pledge that our university will take action’

How do today’s Black Lives Matter protests compare to the civil rights movement of the 1960s?

How do today’s Black Lives Matter protests compare to the civil rights movement of the 1960s?

Ahmaud Arbery was killed in Georgia. Should the case be tried as a hate crime?

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Ahmaud Arbery was killed in Georgia. Should the case be tried as a hate crime?

What we can learn from the backlash to The New York Times’ 1619 Project, a history of slavery in America
Stock photo of the The New York Times Magazine on Aug. 20, 2019. Photo by Matthew Modoono/Northeastern University

What we can learn from the backlash to The New York Times’ 1619 Project, a history of slavery in America

Toni Morrison’s influence extends beyond literature in her chronicling of black history and identity
Toni Morrison’s groundbreaking novels about black history and identity helped to advance issues of civil rights and racial justice. The author was the keynote speaker at an event at Northeastern University in 2013, and afterward, she met with families who’d lost a relative to racial violence. Photo by Mary Knox Merrill/Northeastern University

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Toni Morrison’s influence extends beyond literature in her chronicling of black history and identity

Murder in Mobile, a documentary by Northeastern Films about race, murder, and justice, will be screened at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston

Murder in Mobile, a documentary by Northeastern Films about race, murder, and justice, will be screened at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston

Here’s what these Northeastern professors say is missing from the national debate over blackface

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Here’s what these Northeastern professors say is missing from the national debate over blackface