Mississippi: Call for investigation over ‘noose put on black student’
Source: BBC A rights group in the US state of Mississippi has demanded a federal hate crime investigation after the family of a black high school student said white students […]
Chelsea Handler Destroys Trump’s Racism Defense In One Sobering Tweet
Source: Huffington Post BY Cole Delbyck Entertainment Writer, The Huffington Post Here’s a fun game! If Donald Trump is the least racist person you’ve ever met, then you’ve: A) Learned to live in […]
7 Female Doctors Speak Out About Racism and Sexism During Airplane Emergencies
Source: Time By Mandy Oaklander Dr. Tamika Cross made headlines when she posted a troubling airplane encounter in a Facebook post: that she, a young black doctor, was turned away when she tried to provide medical care to a sick passenger. “Oh no sweetie put [your] hand down, we are looking […]
RACE: Do You See Me?
Source: Time By John Legend John Legend is a singer, songwriter, philanthropist and prison-reform advocate. ‘We need to see each other in all of our humanity’ We’re living in a moment […]
Howard County sheriff resigns over alleged racist, anti-Semitic remarks
Source: The Washington Post By Michael E. Miller Howard County Sheriff James F. Fitzgerald is resigning over allegations that he made racist, sexist and anti-Semitic remarks and bullied those who […]
‘Racist’ Gandhi statue banished from Ghana university campus
theguardian: by Jason Burke — Accra academics win removal of Mahatma sculpture after petition denouncing Indian leader and saying African heroes ‘come first’ The Ghana university Gandhi statue, a focus for claims that the Indian leader was racist towards black South Africans. Photograph: Christian Thompson/AP A statue of Mahatma Gandhi […]
Complaint to feds says Southwest Airlines profiled Muslim
Source: Associated Press SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) — A religious rights organization has filed a complaint with federal authorities against Southwest Airlines for what the group says was racial and […]
The Racial Confidence Gap in Police Performance
Source: Pew Research Center Blacks, whites also have dramatically different views on causes of fatal encounters between blacks and police BY RICH MORIN AND RENEE STEPLER The deep racial tensions seen in many areas of American life 1 underlie how blacks and whites view police in their communities, as well […]
A Pastor Was Forced To Remove His “Black Lives Matter” Shirt At A Trump Rally
Source: BuzzFeed News BEDFORD, N.H. — A Baptist pastor said he was forced to remove a “Black Lives Matter” T-shirt he was wearing Thursday at a Donald Trump campaign rally […]
Video: When citizens film police Does anything change
CNNMoney takes a look back at citizen video recordings of police, from Rodney King to Eric Garner, and now Keith Lamont Scott. With cameras in everybody’s pockets, will behavior change?
6 takeaways from the first presidential debate
Source: CNN Hempstead, New York (CNN)Hillary Clinton stepped onto the debate stage Monday night determined to show that only one candidate is ready to be president. Clinton poked, prodded and […]
Obama: African-American museum helps tell fuller story of America
Washington (CNN) President Barack Obama said Saturday that the newelevates the often-overlooked impact of black Americans and will help others better understand the breadth of the American story. “This national […]
‘A glorious story’: Obama opens African American Smithsonian museum
Source: The Guardian The opening of the National African American History and Culture Museum, part of the Smithsonian, was heralded on Saturday by the tolling of bells across the US […]
Preview the Collection of the National Museum of African American History and Culture
Source: Time The museum opened on Sept. 24 On Saturday, the doors of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture will open to the public, achieving a […]
Ghana: Call to remove Gandhi statue over ‘racist views’
Source: Aljazeera BY Teo Kermeliotis A group of Ghanaian academics, students and artists is calling for the removal of a statue of Mahatma Gandhi from a university campus, saying that the […]
Video: Meet the British-Ghanaian architect behind a new African American museum
The National Museum of African American History and Culture is the only national museum devoted exclusively to the documentation of African American life, history, and culture. It was established by […]
Jelani Jenkins: Why I Knelt During the National Anthem—And Why It’s Time to Stand Up
Source: Time By Jelani Jenkins A linebacker for the Miami Dolphins It takes a village to raise a child. At a very young age, I was taught that God has […]
Carter urges faith leaders to combat ‘resurgence of racism’
Source: Associated Press By KATHLEEN FOODY Former President Jimmy Carter speaks at a Baptist conference in Atlanta, Thursday, Sept. 15, 2016 ATLANTA (AP) — Jimmy Carter says the United States […]
How Hiding Criminal Records Hurts Black and Hispanic Men
Source: Time By Jennifer Doleac & Benjamin Hansen Doleac is an assistant professor of public policy and economics at the University of Virginia and a nonresident fellow at the Brookings Institution. Hansen is […]
Math is racist: How data is driving inequality
Source: CNN by Aimee Rawlins It’s no surprise that inequality in the U.S. is on the rise. But what you might not know is that math is partly to blame. In a new book, “Weapons of Math Destruction,” Cathy O’Neil details all the ways that math is essentially being used […]