By Ta-Nehisi Coates — 2014
Four years ago, I opposed reparations. Here's the story of how my thinking has evolved since then.
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CLEAR ALL
After the success of the Moral Monday protests, the pastor is attempting to revive Martin Luther King, Jr.’s final—and most radical—campaign.
Black women are 37 cents behind men in the pay gap—in other words, for every dollar a man makes, black women make 63 cents.
“This moment requires us to push into the national consciousness, but not from the top down, but from the bottom up.”
The nation’s problem isn’t that we don’t have enough money. It’s that we don’t have the moral capacity to face what ails society.
A lack of support splits parents into warring factions. Here’s what could stop the fighting.
We speak here of the challenge of the dichotomies of war and peace, violence and non-violence, racism and human dignity, oppression and repression and liberty and human rights, poverty and freedom from want.
This equating of money with wealth and wealth with wellbeing is misplaced on multiple counts. Money does not reflect nature’s wealth or people’s wealth, and it definitely fails to measure the wellbeing of society.
With her play and her talk, did the soccer star inspire us to redefine the meaning of sports? She tried.
Billie Jean King isn’t interested in being a legend—she’s interested in succession.
Although children are born ready to learn and grow, adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are traumatic events that occur in youth resulting in toxic stress. And that toxic stress from ACEs can literally change how the brain develops and affect how the body responds to stress as one ages.