By Henry A. Giroux | Originally Published at TruthOut July 19, 2015 00:00 | Illustration Credit; Sandra Bland. (Image: Jared Rodriguez / Truthout) (Image: Jared Rodriguez / Truthout On July 9, soon after Sandra Bland, a 28-year-old African-American woman, moved to Texas from Naperville, Illinois, [...]
By Michele Goodwin | Originally Published at Huffington Post. July 17, 2015 11:17 am EDT Updated: July 17, 2015 11:59 am EDT | Photographic Credit; Daniel Acker/Bloomberg. Getty Images Female incarceration is invisible in the U.S., veiled in the broader realities of mass incarceration, hidden and often [...]
I sat and I listened, all day long with great interest, and empathy, for what was said. But I too would point out, that when we begin to talk about 'Grace' we really need to evaluate what that really means. Grace is not something that [...]
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 [...]
By Judith Browne Dianis, John H. Jackson and Pedro Noguera |Originally Published The Hill. June 02, 2015, 01:00 PM In recent weeks, a few national civil rights organizations including the National Council of La Raza, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the League of [...]
By Willie M. Zanders, Sr. | Originally Published at New Orleans Public Schools Employees Justice. May 18, 2015 | Photographic Credit; Original Plaintiffs and Class Representatives / A Square Photo New Orleans Public School Employees Will Request a Congressional Hearing on the $750 Million Federal Fund to [...]
IT’S been 10 years since Florida enacted a beefed-up Stand Your Ground law. Since 2005, roughly half the states have passed this law, or one like it. The National Rifle Association led the charge, arguing that Stand Your Ground laws would improve public safety and [...]
The Faces and the Money Behind the Post-Katrina Education Reforms By Elizabeth K. Jeffers | Originally Published at The New Orleans Tribune. May/June 2015 Edition Unidentified workers cleaning the former site of John McDonogh High School as recently as mid-May. The Recovery School District recently announced [...]
In Baltimore in 1910, a black Yale law school graduate purchased a home in a previously all-white neighborhood. The Baltimore city government reacted by adopting a residential segregation ordinance, restricting African Americans to designated blocks. Explaining the policy, Baltimore’s mayor proclaimed, “Blacks should be quarantined in [...]
