Source: Amazon Book by by Michael Eric Dyson “Elegantly written, Tears We Cannot Stop is powerful in several areas: moving personal recollections; profound cultural analysis; and guidance for moral redemption. A […]
Source: Atlanta Black Star By Brianna Cox In her essay, “Mourning for Whiteness,” which was published in The New Yorker, Morrison’s central thesis is simple: Trump won because privileged white people, white men especially, feel threatened by a “rapidly” diversifying United States of America. Pulitzer prize-winning and prolific author Toni […]
Source: Time By Michael Tarm and Don Babwin / AP (CHICAGO) — Institutional problems within the Chicago Police Department have led to serious civil rights violations for years, including racial bias […]
Source: Huffington Post BY Marina Fang Associate Politics Editor, The Huffington Post President Barack Obama in his farewell address to the nation Tuesday argued that empathy for those who are different […]
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Source: BBC A white supremacist has been sentenced to death for the racially motivated killings of nine black people at a South Carolina church. Dylann Roof was convicted last month […]
Source: MSN 1863: The Emancipation Proclamation takes effect President Abraham Lincoln signs the final Emancipation Proclamation, which ends slavery in the rebelling states. Check out additional 11 things that happened […]
Source: The Atlantic By CANDICE NORWOOD In 2016, long simmering tensions over race and identity in America boiled over. Years of conflict between police and minority communities, clashing views concerning abortion […]
Huff Post: by Jessica Prois/Kimberly Yam— “It was all based on race hysteria, xenophobia in the past, and you don’t want that to repeat again.” Seventy-five years ago on Wednesday, the bombing of Pearl Harbor brought the U.S. into World War II and subsequently ushered in the nuclear age. It […]
Source: Pew Research Center The public makes clear distinctions in assessing the extent to which some groups in the society face discrimination today. A large majority of Americans (82%) say […]
Source: Huffington Post Adam Hamze Politics Intern, The Huffington Post STEPHEN MATUREN/AFP/GETTY IMAGESIlhan Omar told the Minnesota Star Tribune that she will continue to focus on the rest of her […]
Source: BBC Dutch anti-Islam political leader Geert Wilders has been convicted of insulting a group and inciting discrimination. But no penalty was imposed by the court near Amsterdam on Wilders, […]
‘Get out of America’: Pro-Islam billboards in Dallas a reaction to political climate Source: Huffington Post By Naomi Martin, Reporter Driving down Dallas highways lately, you may have noticed an unusual […]
Source: RNS By Adelle M. Banks (RNS) Veora Layton-Robinson, a student in her final year at New York Theological Seminary, had signed up for a full load of courses when she […]
Source: The Washington Post By Samantha Schmidt After Ilhan Omar moved to the United States in the mid-1990s — fleeing war in her native Somalia and a childhood spent in a […]
Source: The New York Times By KEVIN SACK and ALAN BLINDER CHARLESTON, S.C. — She recalled watching the young white man stroll into Bible study, thinking he just wanted to […]
Source: CNN By Emily May and Kio Stark Emily May is the co-founder and executive director ofHollaback!, a nonprofit that works to fight harassment and offers bystander training webinars and […]
By Kevin Liptak, CNN White House Producer (CNN) President Barack Obama’s election in 2008 broke a racial barrier that set soaring expectations for an era of improved race relations. Now, […]
Source: CNN By Kevin Liptak, CNN White House Producer Fareed Zakaria examines the triumphs and struggles during President Barack Obama’s time in the White House. Watch “The Legacy of Barack […]