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Guest essay: A path to recovery from slavery
“One of my concerns with much of the reparation movement and with frameworks such as critical race theory is that they often place people into permanent categories: victim and victimizer, oppressed and oppressor.”
Cesar Chavez: The making of an unperson
You might say it was like white Americans learning that George Washington, among other Founding Fathers, was a slave holder. In our present culture, that is evil.
Philly is a snail when it comes to paying its bills
90% “of the more than 12,000 outside service contracts that the city signed from fiscal 2020 through January 2025” were paid late.
Is the middle class dead and gone forever?
In framing the book, Dickerson puts the spotlight on her own parents, who did break into the middle class, where Dickerson finds herself today.