Calling Out One Racist Doesn’t Make White People Any Less Complicit in Supremacy
By Rebecca Carroll | Originally Published at The Guardian and Observer.
How Bad Media Is Driving the Collapse of Our Once-Great Public Education System
Most of the news media have no idea how schools run, but they write about them as if they do. By Jeff Bryant | Originally Published at AlterNet. March 16, 2015 Photograph; What reform means to our students. Be afraid of "truisms" tossed about and twisted into [...]
Is Post-Racialism an Implicit Bias?
By Deborah N. Archer | Originally Published Huffington Post. March 15, 2015 9:44 PM EDT On March 9, a 15-year old Brooklyn teenager was viciously attacked by a group of girls inside a local McDonald's. Video of the incident shows five or six girls repeatedly punching and [...]
Why White People Freak Out When They’re Called Out About Race
White fragility' is a defensive response to real conversations about race. By Sam Adler-Bell | Originally Published at AlterNet. March 12, 2015 | Illustration Credit; AngertAesthetics Stop me if you’ve heard this one. Last year, a white male Princeton undergraduate was asked by a classmate [...]
Still Waiting in Selma
SELMA, Ala. — The memory is as powerful as if it were yesterday. On March 25, 1965, tens of thousands of us gathered before the Alabama State Capitol, the endpoint of a five-day, 54-mile march from Selma to Montgomery. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. called out, [...]
Yes, Black America Fears the Police. Here’s Why
Last July 4, my family and I went to Long Island to celebrate the holiday with a friend and her family. After eating some barbecue, a group of us decided to take a walk along the ocean. The mood on the beach that day was [...]
One Term Rahm: Talking Back to the Times about Chicago School Closings
Today’s New York Times tries its hand at explaining why on earth something as silly as neighborhood public schools could bedevil Rahm Emanuel right out of his incumbent throne as Mayor of Chicago. My home is on Chicago’s South Side, on a street full of cops [...]
Hey, Smug White People: You (Yes, You) Are a Racist, Too
Don't imagine that being a racist is something that only happens to other people. By Kali Holloway | Originally Published at AlterNet. March 2, 2015 } Photographic Credit; Integration Crisis; Black and white children at a party to introduce mixed schools during the civil rights movement, Virginia, [...]
We’re Young, Passionate, and Bent on Justice: Why #BlackLivesMatter Is Irresistible
By Adrienne Maree Brown | Originally Published at Yes! Magazine. February 24, 2015 | Photographic credit; Millions March NYC, December 2014. By B.C. Lorio. The people dying are moms and dads, kids and teenagers, nerdy, quiet boys and girls. This movement is showing what wholeness looks like [...]