grand, stern rages

Family portraits from the Joseon dynasty, late 19th century Korea.

VIDEO: Living Under Israel’s Missiles

Four boys of the Bakr family were killed by a missile strike during last year’s incursion. Their surviving family members are still scarred from the attack.

More than anyone, children bear the brunt of regular Israeli military assaults on the Gaza Strip. During the 51-day war in the summer of 2014, 551 children were killed and 3,436 were injured. But these gruesome figures say little about the psychological state of the nearly 800,000 children who have survived the periodic bombing campaigns. After the final cease-fire that ended Israel’s Operation Protective Edge on August 26 of last year, UNICEF estimated that at least 425,000 Palestinian children in the besieged Gaza Strip require “immediate psychosocial and child protection support.”

Usually when I talk about Black-ish I joke that it’s giving away all our secrets. The little parts of our culture that makes us funny and unique. But this episode is thirty minutes of a very tough conversation that black Americans must have with their children, usually Jack and Diane’s age or younger. It highlights that we’ve been having this conversation for decades. It highlights that for all the progress we’ve made, the fundamental reality of being black in America has not changed.

Black-ish S02E16 - Hope 

40 Incredible Photos from Brazil’s First Natural Hair Empowerment March

Photography by Matt Weber. 

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