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    This Week’s 5: B.I.R.S.
    • Dec 6, 2019
    • 4 min

    This Week’s 5: B.I.R.S.

    Author's Note: This Week's 5 is a weekly collection of stories designed to provide insight into how racism works and serve as an easily accessible resource for people trying to have nuanced discussions about these issues. For more explanation on how This Week's 5 works and descriptions of each of the categories, click here. Overt I’ve never been great with acronyms. Right now, I’m workshopping a variation of KISS (Keep It Simple Stupid). Version 1.0 is BIRS, or Blackface Is R
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    This Week’s 5: Seriously Though, Why Does Tucker Carlson Still Have a Job?
    • Nov 29, 2019
    • 5 min

    This Week’s 5: Seriously Though, Why Does Tucker Carlson Still Have a Job?

    Author's Note: This Week's 5 is a weekly collection of stories designed to provide insight into how racism works and serve as an easily accessible resource for people trying to have nuanced discussions about these issues. For more explanation on how This Week's 5 works and descriptions of each of the categories, click here. Overt School districts get sued for racism often for a reason. There’s only so much shoulder shrugging parents can take when racist teachers keep getting
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    This Week’s 5: Fire Stephen Miller
    • Nov 22, 2019
    • 4 min

    This Week’s 5: Fire Stephen Miller

    Author's Note: This Week's 5 is a weekly collection of stories designed to provide insight into how racism works and serve as an easily accessible resource for people trying to have nuanced discussions about these issues. For more explanation on how This Week's 5 works and descriptions of each of the categories, click here. Overt Some white supremacists make a point of covering their tracks. By making their bigotry appear subtle (or even questionable to the untrained eye), th
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    This Week’s 5: Hostile Workplace
    • Nov 16, 2019
    • 5 min

    This Week’s 5: Hostile Workplace

    Author's Note: This Week's 5 is a weekly collection of stories designed to provide insight into how racism works and serve as an easily accessible resource for people trying to have nuanced discussions about these issues. For more explanation on how This Week's 5 works and descriptions of each of the categories, click here. Overt When I started This Week’s 5, I imagined the overt racism section would be the weekly racial slur report. However, white supremacist terrorists have
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    This Week’s 5: White Supremacists Just Won’t Leave the Emmett Till Memorial Alone
    • Nov 8, 2019
    • 4 min

    This Week’s 5: White Supremacists Just Won’t Leave the Emmett Till Memorial Alone

    Author's Note: This Week's 5 is a weekly collection of stories designed to provide insight into how racism works and serve as an easily accessible resource for people trying to have nuanced discussions about these issues. For more explanation on how This Week's 5 works and descriptions of each of the categories, click here. Overt If you want to know how committed white supremacists are, look no further than the Emmett Till Memorial. Vandalized, destroyed, and rebuilt over and
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    ANNOUNCEMENT: This Week's 5 is Taking a Break in October
    • Sep 30, 2019
    • 1 min

    ANNOUNCEMENT: This Week's 5 is Taking a Break in October

    This Week's 5 will be taking a break for the month of October. To everyone who has been reading, commenting, and sharing, thank you. The column will be back in November, strong as ever. In the meantime, while This Week's 5 serves as a weekly recap of specifically curated stories on racism, it also functions as a resource that readers can always revisit. During this mini-sabbatical, please feel free to check out past editions of This Week's 5 in our Opinion archive. #thisweeks
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    This Week’s 5: Harvard’s Affirmative Action for White People by the Numbers
    • Sep 27, 2019
    • 5 min

    This Week’s 5: Harvard’s Affirmative Action for White People by the Numbers

    Author's Note: This Week's 5 is a weekly collection of stories designed to provide insight into how racism works and serve as an easily accessible resource for people trying to have nuanced discussions about these issues. For more explanation on how This Week's 5 works and descriptions of each of the categories, click here. Overt Here’s a story that should make your blood boil. A group of six grade boys recently assaulted a Black girl at a Virginia private school by holding
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    This Week’s 5: Please Stop with the Black People Field Trip Stories
    • Sep 20, 2019
    • 5 min

    This Week’s 5: Please Stop with the Black People Field Trip Stories

    Author's Note: This Week's 5 is a weekly collection of stories designed to provide insight into how racism works and serve as an easily accessible resource for people trying to have nuanced discussions about these issues. For more explanation on how This Week's 5 works and descriptions of each of the categories, click here. Overt There are a lot of thoughts that come to mind when I read the headline, “Texas Teacher Who Asked Trump to Deport ‘Illegal Students’ at Her School Ge
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    This Week’s 5: Grow Up
    • Sep 13, 2019
    • 5 min

    This Week’s 5: Grow Up

    Author's Note: This Week's 5 is a weekly collection of stories designed to provide insight into how racism works and serve as an easily accessible resource for people trying to have nuanced discussions about these issues. For more explanation on how This Week's 5 works and descriptions of each of the categories, click here. Overt Anyone else getting tired of the painstaking effort law enforcement seems to keep taking to make sure they are absolutely sure before they acknowled
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    This Week’s 5: More Human Rights Violations, More Foot-Dragging
    • Sep 6, 2019
    • 4 min

    This Week’s 5: More Human Rights Violations, More Foot-Dragging

    Author's Note: This Week's 5 is a weekly collection of stories designed to provide insight into how racism works and serve as an easily accessible resource for people trying to have nuanced discussions about these issues. For more explanation on how This Week's 5 works and descriptions of each of the categories, click here. Overt What is it about white supremacists that evokes such a haunting commitment to caution from America’s most powerful figures? Any other movement linke
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