Integration, Segregation, [De]Humanization
By Ryan Gabrielson, Ryann Grochowski Jones and Eric Sagara | Originally Published at ProPublica. October 10, 2014 11:07 AM | Hannah Birch and David Sleight ProPublica A ProPublica analysis of killings by police shows outsize risk for young black males. Young black males in recent years were [...]
The moments of protest and frenzied media coverage that followed the deaths of Michael Brown, Jordan Davis, Trayvon Martin, Oscar Grant and too many others always bring me to the same thought: We have a problem with how we talk about the lives of young [...]
When We Ignore or Excuse Street Harassment, Could That Be a Crime?Complicity? Duplicity? What Do We See? We see people defend their own kind. It happens all the time – out on the streets, in classrooms, in cyberspace, in facebook posts, blogs, and tweets. Our locker rooms [...]
By Chocolate, Pomp, And Circumstance | Originally Published at Medium. on October 2, 2014 An Ohio couple, Jennifer Cramblett and Amanda Zinkon, whose child, Payton, is “obviously biracial” because of a mix-up at a sperm bank, is suing that sperm bank. The Sperm Bank Fucked* Up [...]
What do we teach our children when we do not know our history?Here’s Some History... By Blair L.M. Kelley | Originally Published at TheRoot. September 25, 2014 | Viola Davis stars in ABC’s new series How to Get Away With Murder. COURTESY OF ABC The pernicious nature [...]
By chaunceydevega | Originally Published at Chauncey DeVega. September 24, 2014 Several weeks ago, Levar Jones, a black motorist, was shot by a white South Carolina state trooper named Sean M. Groubert while complying with the latter's request that he present his drivers license for inspection. This [...]
By Tiffanie Drayton | Originally Published at The Frisky. September 22, 2014 12:43 PM EDT I think I may have had a small mental break down last week. I knew it was coming, I was all tight with emotion after some of the responses I received on [...]
By Janee Woods | Originally Published at AlterNet. September 12, 2014 | Image Racial Microaggressions by Kiyun, Fordham UniversityThere's a difference between feeling uncomfortable and being unsafe in black spaces. One month ago, the nation’s consciousness around race relations was awoken abruptly following the [...]
By Michelle Denise Jackson | Originally Published at For Harriet. September 11, 2014 | Photographic Credit; Shutterstock I have always been good at making people feel uncomfortable by being extremely vocal about my views on political and social issues. This has also led to quite a few [...]
