Affirmative action: Do white American students really get a bad deal?
Source: BBC News Affirmative action – a touchstone of the US culture wars – is back in the headlines after a claim the justice department was considering a plan to […]
Michelle Obama Addresses Racist Attacks She Endured As First Lady
Source: Huffington Post “The shards that cut me the deepest were the ones that intended to cut.” By Rebecca Shapiro Michelle Obama has opened up in front of a crowd of about 8,500 at the Women’s Foundation of Colorado’s 30th anniversary event in Denver about her experience as America’s first black first lady. […]
Nearly Half Of Muslim Americans Have Experienced An Act Of Discrimination In The Last Year
Source: Huffington Post By Antonia Blumberg A new report by Pew Research Center shows that U.S. Muslims feel unsure of their place in society, face increasing discrimination and are dissatisfied with the […]
Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America
Source of interview: NPR Source of book review: Amazon Book written by James Forman Jr. Professor Yale Law School In recent years, America’s criminal justice system has become the subject of an […]
Hate-based incidents surge in suburban school system in Maryland
Source: The Washington Post By Donna St. George July 11 School incidents involving hate symbols and racial slurs appear to have more than tripled during the past school year in a suburb […]
Stand up to everyday racism and hate crimes, Jeremy Corbyn urges
Source: The Guardian Jeremy Corbyn called for unity in the fight for ‘the decent non-racist society that we all crave’. Photograph: David Nash/Barcroft Images BY Harriet Sherwood Religion correspondent Members […]
Condoleezza Rice: ‘Don’t Let Somebody Else’s Racism or Sexism Be Your Problem’
Source: Time By Lucy Feldman June 28, 2017 The former Secretary of State and KPMG CEO Lynne Doughtie spoke to Motto about KPMG’s leadership program Condoleezza Rice won’t brook microaggressions. When she started […]
Racism Is Part of the Health Care Debate
Source: Time Dr. Sandro Galea Jun 22, 2017 IDEAS Galea is Dean of Boston University School of Public Health. Last month, the Congressional Budget Office released its evaluation of the […]
Jay Z: For Father’s Day, I’m Taking On the Exploitative Bail Industry
Source: Time BY Shawn Carter Jun 16, 2017 Carter, known as Jay Z, is a lauded recording artist, philanthropist and father Seventeen years ago I made a song, “Guilty Until […]
Federal appeals court upholds freeze on Trump’s travel ban
Source: The Washington Post By Matt Zapotosky and Robert Barnes June 13 A West Coast federal appeals court upheld the freeze on President Trump’s travel ban Monday, declaring that Trump […]
Being Sikh in Trump’s America: ‘You have to go out of your way to prove you’re not a threat’
Source: Los Angeles Times By Sarah Parvini Contact Reporter Balmeet Singh stepped outside a burger shop in a strip mall to wish his 13-year-old cousin a happy birthday when the […]
39 years later, priesthood ban is history, but racism within Mormon ranks isn’t, black members say
Source: The Salt Lake Tribune Tamu Smith was called the N-word in the Salt Lake LDS Temple a week after her wedding day more than 20 years ago. The same […]
Implicit bias: Is everyone racist?
Source: BBC News Few people openly admit to holding racist beliefs but many psychologists claim most of us are nonetheless unintentionally racist. We hold, what are called “implicit biases”. So […]
Why Being Black And A Hijabi Is The Hardest Job In America
Source: Huffington Post BY Abdi Ibrahim, Contributor Get up, take the transit to the office, 9-hour shift, come home, wake up, and repeat. For many American adults this is a common […]
The Numbers Don’t Lie: White Far-Right Terrorists Pose a Clear Danger to Us All
Source: The Intercept By Mehdi Hasan, Columnist, The Intercept. Contributing Editor, New Statesman. Host, Al Jazeera English. O SEAN DUFFY, where art thou? Back in February, the Republican […]
Three Men Stood Up to Anti-Muslim Attack. Two Paid With Their Lives.
Source: The New York Times By DANIEL VICTOR Coco Douglas, 8, on Saturday at a memorial in Portland, Ore., for two men who were killed when they confronted a man […]
Justin Trudeau asks Pope for apology
Source: MSN Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has a request for Pope Francis: say sorry for the role of the Catholic Church in a Canadian school system where indigenous children […]
What I am learning from my white grandchildren — truths about race | Anthony Peterson
Source: Youtube This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. Are we in a post-racial society? Do we want to be? Anthony Peterson, […]
Video: Ted Talk: Take “the Other” to lunch
By Elizabeth Lesser, who is a bestselling author and the cofounder of Omega Institute, the renowned conference and retreat center located in Rhinebeck, New York. There’s an angry divisive tension […]
Black People Still Aren’t Living As Long as Whites: Study
Source: Time BY Alice Park People in the U.S. and beyond are living longer thanks to better health care, but gaps between whites and other groups, including African-Americans, persist, according to […]