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Reframing the conversation on racial justice and equity.

A collaboration with The Boston Globe and Boston University's Center for Antiracist Research

BOOKS

BOOKS | Christopher Rivas
In the alchemy of Brownness, taking up space should not be a radical act
Author Christopher Rivas explores living beyond the Black/White binary to reclaim the middle ground of race, ethnicity, and identity.

books | Nia T. Evans
We cannot repair what we refuse to remember
With startling clarity and relevance, Gayle introduces readers to a community of Black citizens who — within a nation they helped to build — were stripped of political equality in the 1970s.

Books | Emily Gowen
Children’s books need to watch their (skin) tone
Checking for diversity, bias in images must start with gatekeepers who deem which kids’ books count.

Books | Daina Ramey Berry and Deborah D. Douglas
‘The Price For Their Pound of Flesh’
The challenge of solving the Black wealth gap is informed by another time in our past when Black people were the wealth of this nation, says Daina Ramey Berry, Ph.D., a scholar of enslaved people who poured a decade of research into her book, “The Price For Their Pound of Flesh.” The people treated as products are the most specific example of today’s wealth gap.