One recent Wednesday, I sat across from my counselor at the University Health Center and cried. In her hands, she held a small Post-It note on which I had written a list of points I’d hoped we could discuss during our session. She had laughed [...]
By F. Amanda Tugade | Originally Published at In These Times. December 17, 2014 | On Tuesday, Dec. 16, members of We Charge Genocide, Chicago Torture Justice Memorial, Project NIA and Amnesty International led a five-mile march from Chicago Police Headquarters to City Hall to show support [...]
Why are white cops shooting unarmed black men? On one level the story is simple: racism. Too many police officers fear people of color in the neighborhoods they patrol, and are likely to over-react with force during encounters. The local courts also engage in discrimination [...]
By The Daily Take Team, The Thom Hartmann Program | Originally Published at TruthOut. December 11, 2014 3:43 PM | (Photo Source and Credit; Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools. The Koch brothers are trying to rewrite history. Caitlin MacNeal over at TPM is reporting that the North Carolina [...]
“How should we talk about Ferguson with our students?” was the scheduled topic for the “Teachers Teaching Teachers” (TTT) discussion on Wednesday, December 3. By the time of the Google hangout at 9 pm ET, the event’s panel of educators was still processing what had [...]
A White co-worker walks up to me as I arrive at my office and asks me accusingly, “Did you know that Antoine Walker’s broke?!” Antoine Walker played in the NBA for twelve years. He was selected to three All-Star teams, won one World Championship, and [...]
By Cera Byer | Originally Published at Salon. December 8, 2014 7:01 AM | This post originally appeared on Cera Byer's Facebook page. | Photographic Credit: Ollyy via Shutterstock) A plea to the good guys in my world to stop being so defensive and listen to other [...]
I am among the millions who have experienced the shock, grief, and fury of losing someone to racial violence. When I was 15, two close friends were killed in the Birmingham Sunday School bombing carried out by white supremacists trying to terrorize the rising civil [...]
"Hands Up, Don't Shoot" is not just about Mike Brown, or Ferguson, or police shooting unarmed black people. "Hands Up, Don't Shoot" is about a fundamental question that gets to the core of what this country stands for. It's a question that's been open to [...]
