Willie Smith Ward of Waco, TX was sentenced to 50 years for tucking a rack of ribs under his shirt inside of a local grocery store in September 2011. The jurors in Waco’s 19th State District Court were less than impressed… Read More ›
Racism
Native American student denied high school diploma for wearing tribal feather
By Arturo Garcia A high school graduate in Alabama is being denied her diploma after being fined $1,000 for wearing a feather reflecting her Native American heritage. “I don’t think it’s fair at all,” 17-year-old Chelsey Ramer told WPMI-TV. “I feel like… Read More ›
Chokwe Lumumba Elected Mayor of Jackson, Mississippi
BY KIRSTEN WEST Former Ward 2 Councilman and Chokwe Lumumba, 65, is the new mayor of Jackson, Miss., winning the general election with 87 percent of the vote, reports Fight Back! News. “I’m just delighted. I feel wonderfully well about the people and their… Read More ›
Cheerios Ad Starring Interracial Family Ignites Racist Hate Storm
by Jorge Rivas We’ve seen interracial couples on television for decades but corporate companies have largely stayed away from including them in advertising. The sitcom “I Love Lucy,” which premiered in 1951, was the first television program to feature an interracial couple starring… Read More ›
Black 14-year-old Carrying a Puppy Tackled and Choked by Police for Giving Them a “Dehumanizing Stare”
By Steven Hsieh Grown police officers allege that the unarmed teen looked at them funny. New cell phone footage shows Miami-Dade Police officers aggressively pinning an unarmed teen to the ground while choking him. His alleged crime: giving the officers “dehumanizing… Read More ›
Review of “The Great Gatsby” (2013)
Introduction: Classic Literature Doesn’t Always Make a Classic Film Whenever a classic work of fiction is adapted for the silver screen, there is both a feeling of excitement and dread. Sometimes an essential work of literature like Les Misérables becomes… Read More ›
How “Memorial Day” was stripped of its African-American Roots
Written by: Ben Becker What we now know as Memorial Day began as “Decoration Day” in the immediate aftermath of the U.S. Civil War. It was a tradition initiated by former slaves to celebrate emancipation and commemorate those who died for that… Read More ›
1 Black Man Is Killed Every 28 Hours by Police or Vigilantes: America Is Perpetually at War with Its Own People
By Adam Hudson From the war on drugs to the war on terror, law enforcement’s battle against minorities serves as pacification. Police officers, security guards, or self-appointed vigilantes extrajudicially killed at least 313 African-Americans in 2012 according to a recent study. This means a black person… Read More ›
First indigenous map of its kind; U.S. map displays “Our own names and locations”
By Monica Brown, Tulalip News Writer Aaron Carapella, a Cherokee Indian, has taken it upon himself to create a map that shows the Tribal nations of the U.S. prior to European contact. The map is of the contiguous United States… Read More ›
Judge rules office of “America’s toughest sheriff” racially profiled Latinos
A federal judge has ruled that an Arizona sheriff infamous for his tough approach to immigration law enforcement and his office’s deputies violated the rights of Latinos by profiling them based on their ethnicity. Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio –… Read More ›
In Colorado, Blacks Make Up 4 Percent Of The Population And 100 Percent Of Death Row
By Nicole Flatow In March, Colorado came close to becoming the 19th state to abolish the death penalty, but the bill failed after Gov. John Hickenlooper (D) voiced opposition and suggested a possible veto. A few months later, Colorado’s death penalty is still firmly in… Read More ›
Map: Closing Schools Are Overwhelmingly in Minority Neighborhoods
I’ve written before about the unequal geographical distribution of D.C. Public Schools’ planned school closures, with wards 5 and 7 bearing the brunt. But here’s a map that puts the closures in a new light: The map was created by University of… Read More ›
Former U.S.-Backed Military Dictator Efrain Rios Montt Found Guilty of Genocide in Guatemala
Efraín Ríos Montt held to account for abuses in campaign that killed an estimated 200,000 and led to 45,000 disappearances The former Guatemalan dictator Efraín Ríos Montt was convicted of genocide on Friday after a court found him guilty of… Read More ›
Nazi cop runs a police state in Arizona town
Some residents in a small Arizona city are saying that the term “police state” is more than just a metaphor for the authoritarian rule they feel that they are being more and more subjected to in tiny town just east… Read More ›
Ray Kelly: By the Department’s Count, African-Americans are being “understopped”
BY AZI PAYBARAH Bloomberg said NYPD critics are unfairly compare the number of black and Latino men stopped to the number of black and Latino men in the general population, whereas they should be comparing the numbers of stops to the… Read More ›
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