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Why I’m going to keep teaching the truth about racism in America
April 3, 2024
Black History Month, which gets underway this week, is a chance to give Americans the timely reminder that you can’t teach our history honestly without understanding Black struggle and triumph.
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Our Top Spring 2021 Events
Each semester the Ash Center works to spark powerful new ideas, share innovative public-sector solutions, and discuss institutional reforms through our public events. We have never shied away from tough conversations […]
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Why words aren’t enough from companies claiming to support Black Lives Matter
The bar for public reckoning has been set low in the United States. But real change is possible if companies examine their own past failures.
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The sugar that saturates the American diet has a barbaric history as the ‘white gold’ that fueled slavery.
Before French Jesuit priests planted the first cane stalk near Baronne Street in New Orleans in 1751, sugar was already a huge moneymaker in British New York. By the 1720s, one of every two ships in the city’s port was either arriving from or heading to the Caribbean, importing sugar and enslaved people and exporting…