Turkey changes road name for new US embassy to ‘Malcolm X Street’
ANKARA — Turkey on Saturday renamed the road where the new US embassy is to be located after the American black Muslim civil rights campaigner Malcolm X, its latest use […]
To overcome patriarchy, men first have to see it in themselves
Source: Religion News Service By Simran Jeet Singh (RNS) — I wish I had grown up with sisters. Maybe then I wouldn’t have felt so blindsided by the conversations about […]
Legendary boxer Muhammad Ali’s ancestry traced back to heroic slave Archer Alexander
DNA evidence links Muhammad Ali to heroic slave, family says Source: The Washington Post By Ben Strauss When Cassius Clay joined the Nation of Islam in 1964 and changed his […]
Anger at Dutch plan to ask race and religion of gun licence applicants
Source: The Guardian By Daniel Boffey The Dutch government is facing a storm of protest over plans to register the race and religion of people seeking a firearms licence. The requirements, […]
Small Missouri college ends Nike affiliation over Colin Kaepernick ads
Source: Yahoo News BY Nick Bromberg The College of the Ozarks wants you to know it does not like Nike’s ad campaign with Colin Kaepernick. The private Christian school located south of […]
How the South Memorializes — and Forgets — Its History of Lynching
Source: Time Text by Sherrilyn Ifill | Photographs by Johnathon Kelso Between 1877 and 1950, more than 4,400 black Americans were killed by lynching in the United States. Our nation has always preferred to […]
Chicago police have made arrests in only about 27 percent of homicide
‘Ain’t nobody been locked up. And they ain’t trying to solve nothing.’ Source: The Washington Post By Wesley Lowery August 30 at 8:00 AM CHICAGO — Deangelo Norwood had been in the […]
Texas ex-officer is sentenced to 15 years for killing an unarmed teen
By Faith Karimi and Emanuella Grinberg, CNN (CNN) A Texas jury sentenced a former police officer to 15 years in prison Wednesday night for the shooting death of an unarmed […]
How Ilhan Omar Won Over Hearts in Minnesota’s Fifth
Source: The New Yorker By Emily Witt Most coverage of Ilhan Omar, the thirty-five-year-old state legislator who won the Democratic primary in Minnesota’s Fifth Congressional District last night, has focussed on her […]
Canada Under ‘Extreme Multi-culturalism?’
Maxime Bernier Doubles Down On Tweets About ‘Extreme’ Multiculturalism Huffington Post By Ryan Maloney A Liberal MP is calling on the Conservative leader to give Bernier the boot. Conservative MP […]
Sarah Huckabee Sanders: ‘I Can’t Guarantee’ Trump Never Said Racial Slur
Source: Huffington Post By Michelle Lou White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said on Tuesday she “can’t guarantee” that Americans will never hear President Donald Trump say the “N-word” […]
Faith-based protesters flock to Washington to counter white supremacists
Source: Religion News By Jack Jenkins WASHINGTON (RNS) — When white supremacist groups announced plans to hold a demonstration in the nation’s capital to mark the one-year anniversary of the […]
Flying while Brown and Muslim
Source: Politico By Qasim Rashid I got harassed at the airport by Customs and Border Patrol. Good thing I’m a lawyer—in the Trump era, others aren’t so lucky. After a […]
This photographer spent the year since Charlottesville documenting white supremacists
Source: Time Charlottesville, Va., blew up a year ago, the tiki torch march illuminating the night skies of Aug. 11, 2017 and street confrontations ending in death the next day. […]
How the media helps increase terrorist groups membership
Stelter: How to report on racists without fanning the flames Source: CNN By Brian Stelter As journalists fan out to cover a hate group gathering on the one-year anniversary of the […]
Ibtihaj Muhammad: I felt like a social ‘pariah’ after making Team USA
Source: The Lily Ibtihaj Muhammad The following is an excerpt from “Proud: My Fight for an Unlikely American Dream,” by United States Olympian Ibtihaj Muhammad. Muhammad is an American fencer who rose […]
Mesut Ozil: Arsenal midfielder quits Germany over ‘racism and disrespect’
Source: BBC News Arsenal midfielder Mesut Ozil has quit international football, citing the “racism and disrespect” he has faced in Germany over his Turkish roots. The 29-year-old was criticised after being […]
Pizza Chain Papa John’s Founder John Schnatter Resigns After Using a Racial Slur
Source: Associated Press By ASSOCIATED PRESS Papa John’s says founder John Schnatter has resigned as chairman of the board. The company made the announcement late Wednesday, hours after Schnatter apologized for […]
Half the country thinks Donald Trump is a racist. HALF.
Source: CNN Analysis by Chris Cillizza, CNN Editor-at-large (CNN)A new Quinnipiac University poll has a striking result: 49% of people said they believe President Donald Trump to be a racist […]
Immigrant children: Federal judge orders families separated at border be reunited within 30 days
Source: USA Today BY Doug Stanglin, USA TODAY A federal judge in California has ordered U.S. immigration authorities to reunite separated families on the border within 30 days, describing the Trump administration’s handling of […]