A mysterious thing happened on the way to the widely projected meltdown of American cities in the last quarter of the 20th century. Instead of collapsing, many of our largest and hardest-hit cities have rebounded and flourished, confounding critics and social scientists alike. Why did these [...]
By Tiffanie Drayton | Originally Published at The Frisky. July 7, 2015 | Photographic Credit; Abigail Fisher speaks to Supreme Court Decision (AP) As a Black woman, I sincerely want to see feminism present a united front in the fight against sexism and racism. However, with so [...]
and my body shook with joy. It had been announced that the U.S. Supreme Court ruled, in a 5–4 decision, that same-sex marriage is a Constitutional right. Finally, I thought, something that appears such a basic, reasonable, and most importantly, humane assessment now has to [...]
History is the polemics of the victor, William F. Buckley allegedly said. Not so in the United States, at least not regarding the Civil War. As soon as Confederates laid down their arms, some picked up their pens and began to distort [...]
By Tiffanie Drayton | Originally Published at The Frisky. June 30, 2015 | Painting Credit; "Murder in Mississippi" - Norman Rockwell. Oil on canvas. 1964. Intended as the illustration for the Look magazine article titled, "Southern Justice," by Charles Morgan, Jr. Norman Rockwell Family Agency ©. All [...]
Yesterday the Washington State Supreme Court threw out an obstruction conviction against a juvenile who had insulted police and refused to go away when they were detaining his younger sister. The juvenile, with the initials E.J.J., directed the word “motherfucker” at Seattle police officers, according [...]
“These white folks, they think the world belongs to them,” Grandma told me 12 hours after Susie Jackson, Ethel Lance, Clementa Pinckney, Tywanza Sanders, Cynthia Hurd, Sharonda Coleman-Singleton, Depyane Middleton Doctor, Daniel Simmons and Myra Thompson were murdered in a black Charleston church by a cowardly [...]
White people, where you at? I’m not kidding, white people. We have work to do. People of Color have been telling us what the problem is for decades. Their voices are not new, but it seems we are finally hearing them talk. So we have two [...]
Dylann Roof, the 21-year-old white supremacist accused of murdering nine black churchgoers at an historic church in Charleston, South Carolina, was captured Thursday morning, ending an extensive 14-hour search by federal and local law enforcement. Roof’s arrest brings some relief to a city and [...]
