By Chauncey DeVega | Originally Published at We Are Respectable Negros. July 31, 2013 | This photo taken Friday July 12, 2013, shows Renee Adams, left, posing with her mother Irene Salyers and son Joseph, 4, at their produce stand in Council, Va. NBC's recent story on [...]
By Carmen Berkley | Originally Published at The Huffington Post. Black Voices. July 15, 2013 This past weekend, the Black Youth Project convened 100 Black youth to come up with a plan of action to uplift our voices, use our knowledge and take action within our community. [...]
Introduction On the day after Martin Luther King Jr. was murdered in April 1968, Jane Elliott's third graders from the small, all-white town of Riceville, Iowa, came to class confused and upset. They recently had made King their "Hero of the Month," and they couldn't understand why [...]
Words like "freedom," "justice," "democracy" are not common concepts; on the contrary, they are rare. People are not born knowing what these are. It takes enormous and, above all, individual effort to arrive at the respect for other people that these words imply. ~ James Baldwin (1924–1987), [...]
So, How Will Blacks Feed Their Families? By Kathleen Cross | Originally Published at Rollng Out. July 11, 2011 You may remember the 2003 University of Chicago study by Devah Pager that sent young white and black “testers” with randomly assigned “felony convictions” to apply for [...]
Photograph; Karen Lewis, center, president of the CTU is joined by the Rev. Jesse Jackson, left, and United States Representative Bobby Rush, right, during a demonstration and march over the a plan to close fifty-four Chicago Public Schools through Chicago's downtown Wednesday, March 27, 2013. (AP Photo/Charles [...]
Dearest Rachel… Hi. It is me, Betsy. I am writing to say Congratulations to you and all Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Americans. It has been a great week for all our LBGTQ brethren. Sadly, it is a little less so [...]
Kids Count or so we say. In practice, Americans spend more time substantiating that kids can count and do little to show that the actual child matters. While many might reflect on their personal circumstances and argue that children count, there is another dynamic to consider. Do [...]
Photograph: Lori Nix How We Are Impoverished, Gentrified and Silenced - and What to Do About It By John Pilger | Originally Published at TruthOut. July 26, 2013 Momentous change almost always begins with the courage of people taking back their own lives against [...]
