Recommended Articles On Issues of Race

Criminal Justice “Of Bikers and Thugs” http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/21/opinion/charles-blow-of-bikers-and-thugs.html? action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=opinion-c-col-right-region®ion=opinion-c- col-right-region&WT.nav=opinion-c-col-right-region&_r=0

"The Return of the 19th Century or When Will We Ever Learn"

"Today I Saw Why it's Vitally Important for Me and Other Black People to Serve on Juries"

Essays/Commentary A Letter to My Nephew by James Baldwin

Dolezal's Devastating Deception." - The Huffington Post

The Financial Consequences of Saying 'Black,' vs. 'African American'

From Citizen: "You Are in the Dark in the Car" Local History “50 years ago, Van Avery protest marked turning point for Kalamazoo's black community” http://www.mlive.com/news/kalamazoo/index.ssf/ 2013/02/50th_anniversary_of_van_avery.html

“BLACK HISTORY BITS: past marches for civil rights in Kalamazoo called for an end to discrimination” http://blog.mlive.com/pagesofourpast/2009/02/black_history_month_civil_righ.html

“BLACK HISTORY BITS: Van Avery Drugstore protest” http://blog.mlive.com/pagesofourpast/2009/02/black_history_month_van_avery.html

“Kalamazoo Valley Museum Museography Special Edition on Race” special edition - Kalamazoo Valley Community College

“Kalamazoo’s First Residents: Our Native Americans” http://www.kpl.gov/local-history/general/native-americans.aspx

“MLK at Western” http://www.wmich.edu/sites/default/fles/attachments/MLK.pdf

“Risking everything for freedom: Underground Railroad was a gamble for runaway slaves and those who helped them” http://www.mlive.com/news/kalamazoo/index.ssf/2010/10/ risking_everything_for_freedom.html

“Underground Railroad in Kalamazoo” http://www.kpl.gov/local-history/black-history/underground-railroad.aspx

History "The Case for Reparations"

"How the Racists of the South Have Ruled this Nation from the Very Beginning"

"Most of You Have No Idea What Martin Luther King Actually Did"

Yes magazine 40 Acres and a Mule Race "A Kaffeeklatsch on Race" - NYTimes.com

Environmental Racism

Forced Out

"Guide to Getting Comfortable with Race"

How Black Middle-Class Kids Become Poor Adults

"How the White Imagination of a Black Threat Continues to Make Justice Elusive"

"Let's Talk about Race." - The Huffington Post:

"The Measuring Sticks of Racial Bias"

"Microracism"

"Milennials Are More Racist Than They Think"

The new threat: 'Racism without racists' - CNN.com

"An Open Letter to Asian Americans"

"Paralyzed by Gunfre, but Denied Care"

”Rachel Dolezal, Dylann Roof and the tragic history of white America’s love-hate relationship with “blackness – Salon http://google.com/newsstand/s/CBIwgKC46CE

"Rachel Dolezal's Unintended Gift to America" Troubled as she is, she has opened a candid, long-delayed conversation about the meaning of racial identity.

“When You Say You Don’t See Race” http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jan/26/do-not-see-race-ignoring-racism- not-helping

"Why I Can't Forgive Dylann Roof"

"Why There's No Such Thing as Reverse Racism" White Privilege 75 Percent of White People Don’t Have Any Nonwhite Friends

"How the White Imagination of a Black Threat Continues to Make Justice Elusive"

"My experience with white privilege"- Julie Mack | MLive.com

"Of Bikers and Thugs"

Rachel Dolezal, Dylann Roof and the tragic history of white America's love-hate relationship with "blackness" - Salon

Self-Segregation: Why It's So Hard for Whites to Understand Ferguson

“When Whites Just Don’t Get It”

"White Anti-Racism: Living the Legacy" - Teaching Tolerance

At New York Private Schools, Challenging White Privilege From the Inside" - NY Times