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Between third and seventh centuries CE, certain type of clothe was discovered to protect children, in modern times hoodies have become associated with street protests, groups, gangs, rise against political authorities

When a young Mark Zuckerberg held meetings with investors just months after Trayvon Martin’s death, his hoodie raised eyebrows for different reasons.

The Economic Times

From sportswear to protest attire: the surprisingly political history of the hoodie

In the cold weather, few items of clothing beat a hoodie. They’re comfy, warm and they look cool.

The Conversation

An HBCU has banned durags and bonnets. That reinforces anti-Blackness

Tuskegee University’s dress code is a marker of a harmful politics of respectability. In my academic career, it’s become all too familiar

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The Constitution promises an interpreter for fair trials – US courts often can’t deliver

In northern Oregon, just before dawn in October 2025, Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers arrested and shackled two farmworkers on their way to work. The man and woman were Guatemalan citizens who spoke no English and very little Spanish. They spoke Mam, an Indigenous Mayan language.

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Do we judge people by the way they sound? How accents shape our lives

A new book by linguistics professor Valerie Fridland, who was raised in Memphis by parents with French accents, explores the power behind the way we speak

The Guardian - US

The reckoning over Cesar Chavez signals the perils of building a movement around a single leader

The conflation of Chavez’s image with the fight for farm worker rights is partly because most books on the movement have been written by white people

The Guardian - US

Shootings of people who mistakenly go the wrong house test limits of stand your ground laws

The fatal shooting in early November of a house cleaner who mistakenly went to the wrong address in Indiana feels hauntingly familiar

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Florida’s new open carry ruling combines with ‘stand your ground’ to create new freedoms – and new dangers

Twenty years ago, Florida Gov. Jeb Bush signed the first “stand your ground” law, calling it a “good, common-sense, anti-crime issue.”

The Conversation

‘Indecency has become a new hallmark’: writer and historian Jelani Cobb on race in Donald Trump’s America

In a new essay collection, the dean of Columbia University’s graduate school of journalism makes a compelling argument that everything is connected and nothing is inevitable about racial justice or democracy

The Guardian - US

Kerouac’s Road: The Beat of A Nation – this documentary can’t reconcile nostalgia with the true contemporary US

When Jack Kerouac published On the Road in 1957, he presented the novel as the product of a single marathon writing binge. It was a method he had been working on since the late 1940s that his friend Allen Ginsberg dubbed “spontaneous bop prosody”.

The Conversation

‘The world needs to know what happened to my baby’: inside devastating new police bodycam film The Perfect Neighbor

Composed almost entirely of footage filmed by police, The Perfect Neighbor is a harrowing documentary about a black woman shot by her white neighbour in Florida. The director reveals how she made it

The Guardian - UK

5 years after George Floyd’s murder: How the media narrative has changed around the killing and the protests that followed

On the evening of May 25, 2020, George Floyd was murdered by police outside a grocery store in Minneapolis.

The Conversation

For Black men, fashion has been a tool of self-expression — and a way they've been judged

Clothing as message

The Independent UK

Don’t taste the rainbow: New Florida bill looks to ban Skittles and other tasty treats

Florida bill SB 560 would give food producers until January 1, 2028 to remove certain additives

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Daniel Penny’s acquittal reveals ‘double standard’ about white vigilante crime

In longstanding pattern in the US, white killers are celebrated and Black victims denigrated, experts say

The Independent UK

In 2014, protests around Michael Brown's death broke through the everyday, a catalyst for change

Ten years ago, in August 2014, when a white police officer shot and killed Black 18-year-old Michael Brown on the streets of Ferguson, Missouri, protests erupted in the nation’s consciousness

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Tony winner Miles Frost captivates as Trayvon Martin in Origin

Get a sneak peek into the making of Ava DuVernay's film Origin, featuring an insightful interview with the talented actor Miles Frost, who portrays Trayvon...

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Ava DuVernay: ‘We need to wake up. We’re less than a year away from a transition of power’

The acclaimed film-maker talks about her conversation-starting new film Origin, working outside of the studio system and why Black women are so often gaslit

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