Mother Facing Likely Deportation Takes Refuge In Denver Church
Source: Huffington Post By Ryan Grenoble DENVER ― A mother of four facing possible deportation has taken refuge in a Denver church after customs officials denied a request to extend […]
Malcolm X was Murdered This Day in 1965 – He Suggests Cure To Racism In a Newly Discovered Handwritten Letter
Source: Huffington Post By Kimberley Richards; Trends Writer, The Huffington Post Malcolm X Suggests Cure To Racism In Newly-Discovered Handwritten Letter A recently-discovered letter reportedly handwritten by Malcolm X in […]
Moonlight’s Mahershala Ali: anti-Islam prejudice ‘not a shock’ if you have grown up black
Source: The Guardian By Andrew Pulver Oscar-nominated Muslim actor reveals additional discrimination he has faced since converting to Islam in 1999 The actor Mahershala Ali, whose performance in the widely acclaimed […]
Video: 8 Modern Advancements Europeans Would not have without the ‘Moors’
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I Am Not Your Negro Featurette – Baldwin (2017) – Documentary
Raoul Peck ‘I Am Not Your Negro’ on Solely Using James Baldwin’s Words “I Am Not Your Negro” (Magnolia), Raoul Peck’s acclaimed documentary on author James Baldwin, opened extremely well […]
What happened when a black and white church merged in Florida
Source: The Washington Post By Julie Zauzmer February 7 JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — The topic of the public lecture at the seminary was “The Bible and Race,” and the discussion had […]
UK mosques open their doors as Jeremy Corbyn sends message to Trump
Source: The Guardian By Harriet Sherwood, Helen Pidd, Steven Morris, Henry McDonald and Dani Garavelli Sunday 5 February 2017 19.18 GMTLast modified on Monday 6 February 2017 09.03 GMT Jeremy Corbyn has challenged […]
AFTERMATH: SIXTEEN WRITERS ON TRUMP’S AMERICA
Source: The New Yorker Essays by Toni Morrison, Atul Gawande, Hilary Mantel, George Packer, Jane Mayer, Jeffrey Toobin, Junot Díaz, and more. A DEMOCRATIC OPPOSITION By George Packer Four decades […]
Book Review: Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America
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 […]
Why Did White Americans Choose Trump? Toni Morrison Explains
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 […]
Justice Department Releases Scathing Report on Chicago Police Department Abuses
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 […]
Obama Uses ‘To Kill A Mockingbird’ To Remind Americans Of The Importance Of Empathy
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 […]
Video: President Obama’s Farewell Address
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US church attacker sentenced to death
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 […]
Jan 1, 1863 Abraham Lincoln signs the final Emancipation Proclamation, which ends slavery
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 […]
The Year in Race, Identity, and Criminal Justice
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 […]
Japanese-Americans Imprisoned For Ethnicity Speak Out In Defense Of Muslims
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 […]
2. Discrimination and conflicts in U.S. society
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 […]
First Somali-American Lawmaker Threatened And Called ‘ISIS’ By Racist Cab Driver
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 […]