Seven Excellent Essays about Race, Segreation, & Reparations

Here are seven excellent essays about race and democracy.  Ted Genoways, the author of This Blessed Earth, tweeted these stories to show the "widespread reassessment of American History" that he argues is happening now. 

1. The Great Land Robbery: The shameful story of how 1 million black families have been ripped from their farms Kicked Off the Land: Why so many black families are losing their property, By Lizzie Presser
   Race, History, and Memories of a Virginia Girlhood, Drew Gilpin Faust
2.   The Fight to Redefine Racism: In “How to Be an Antiracist,” Ibram X. Kendi argues that we should think of “racist” not as a pejorative but as a simple, widely encompassing term of description, By Kelefa Sanneh 
3. Can Stacey Abrams Save American Democracy? By Alexis Okeowo 
4. Stacey Abrams’s Fight for a Fair Vote: As the 2020 elections approach, Abrams is leading the battle against voter suppression, By Jelani Cobb 
5. A Lost Work by Langston Hughes Examines the Harsh Life on the Chain Gang In 1933, the Harlem Renaissance star wrote a powerful essay about race. It has never been published in English—until now 
6. Segregation Now ...Sixty years after Brown v. Board of Education, the schools in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, show how separate and unequal education is coming back, By Nikole Hannah -Jones
7. The Case for reparations two hundred fifty years of slavery. Ninety years of Jim Crow. Sixty years of separate but equal. Thirty-five years of racist housing policy. Until we reckon with our compounding moral debts, America will never be whole. By, Ta-Neshisi Coates