I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness

by Austin Channing Brown

Racial injustices, like slavery and our system of mass incarceration, were purposeful inventions, but instead of seeking to understand how we got here, the national narrative remains filled with comforting myths, patchwork time lines, and colonial ideals.

The parallels to the photos from my history book could not be ignored.

racism never went away; it just evolved.