The Nation: by Zoe Carpenter — Shortly before 2 in the afternoon on Sunday, more than a dozen people walked onto an interstate near the Capitol in Washington and formed a human chain. Eight lanes of traffic came to halt. During rush hour the next morning, protestors closed down the […]
Source: BBC US Attorney General Eric Holder has announced plans to “help end racial profiling once and for all”. He was speaking in Atlanta in the wake of mass protests […]
The Washington Post: by Adam Taylor — Still, that doesn’t mean that the criticisms of America’s human rights record are without merit. This may be one rare instance where many people in the U.S. actually agree with North Korea. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un during a visit to the Songdowon […]
theguardian: by Paul Lewis — Watchdog says six officers should face disciplinary action over claims they abused and Tasered Edric Kennedy-Macfoy The IPCC has concluded there was evidence the officers racially stereotyped firefighter Edric Kennedy-Macfoy. Six Metropolitan police officers accused of responding to an offer of assistance from an off-duty […]
http://c.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f9?isVid=1&isUI=1 Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Americans are sharply divided along racial lines as to whether Ferguson police Officer Darren Wilson should […]
Epigraph: O mankind, We have created you from a male and a female; and We have made you into tribes and sub-tribes that you may recognize one another. Indeed, the […]
By Raul A. Reyes, he is an attorney and member of the USA Today Board of Contributors. Follow him on Twitter @RaulAReyes (CNN) — A little over two days. That’s how […]
Source: New York Times By Hanna Kozlowska October 21, 2014 Some say that when the deadly Ebola virus traveled from West Africa to the United States, it brought out worrying […]
Epigraph: O mankind, We have created you from a male and a female; and We have made you into tribes and sub-tribes that you may recognize one another. Indeed, the […]
Editor’s note: Van Jones is a co-host of CNN’s “Crossfire.” He is president and founder of Rebuild the Dream, an online platform focusing on policy, economics and media. He was President Barack Obama’s green […]
Source: Haaretz: It’s time Jews in Israel shed their Diaspora mentality of fearing assimilation and start taking care of the minority religions living in this country. By Arie Hasit / […]
http://i.cdn.turner.com/money/.element/script/7.0/players/embed.js?videoid=/video/news/2014/08/15/ferguson-missouri-race-economic-divide-poverty-income-unemployment-segregation.cnnmoney NEW YORK (CNNMoney) The protests in Ferguson, Missouri, have laid bare America’s ongoing racial divide. One source of that tension is the large financial gap between black and white Americans. […]
Source: BBC Macy’s is to pay $650,000 (£390,000) to settle claims it racially profiled and detained ethnic minority shoppers at its flagship Manhattan shop. Under a deal with New York’s […]
Born on May 19, 1925, in Omaha, Nebraska, Malcolm X was a prominent black nationalist leader who served as a spokesman for the Nation of Islam during the 1950s and […]
Racism in USA and Universal Brotherhood in Islam Another night of chaos 10 days after shooting of Michael Brown by police in Missouri dashes hopes of easing crisis Share 266 Rory […]
Epigraph: O mankind, We have created you from a male and a female; and We have made you into tribes and sub-tribes that you may recognize one another. Indeed, the […]
Huff Post: by Palmer Chinchen — The news footage from Ferguson is dominated by military-clad police with weapons trained on unarmed protesters. It looks like Mosul or Gaza, or worse, 1963 Birmingham. It looks like there will be more violence. It’s time to put down our weapons and promote peace. […]
Epigraph: O mankind, We have created you from a male and a female; and We have made you into tribes and sub-tribes that you may recognize one another. Indeed, the […]
Source: Mondoweiss By Leila Abu-Orf on July 16, 2014 Last week I saw that my white American uncle posted something on Facebook. It was an article from some obscure far right-wing news source and it was called “Support the Civilized Man: Defeat the Jihadists.” Lo and behold, the article was a […]
June 2014 Race is the primary reason white Southern men support the Republican Party, former President Jimmy Carter told Salon in an interview posted Thursday. Carter also pushed back against […]