Integration, Segregation, [De]Humanization
By Nell Bernstein | Originally Published at Open Society. August 8, 2014 | Photographic Credit; Rolando prays alone in his cell. The 15-year-old was given 24 hours of cell confinement as punishment for "failure to comply"—in this case for disobeying staff orders to make his bed in [...]
By Bree Ervin @thinkbanned | Originally Published at Think Banned Thoughts. August 7, 2014 · 1:09 PM | Photograph Source YWCA/ Just a quickie before I dash out the door - I’m on my way to an interview that has me thinking about violence – a [...]
Graphic; Respect Existence or Expect Resistance by AngertAesthetics By Paul L. Thomas, Ed.D. | Originally Published at The Becoming Radical. August 5, 2014 Teachers at every level of schooling have struggled against two powerful social claims: (i) education has always been labeled a failure by political leaders [...]
(Photograph Credit: Mark Wilson/Getty Images) By William A. Darity Jr., Alan A. Aja, , Darrick Hamilton | Originally Published at Huffington Post. July 28, 2014 5:04 PM Updated 5:59 PM EDT Earlier this month a divided Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the University of Texas' right [...]
By John Fitzgerald Gates, Ph.D. | Originally Published at Huffington Post Business. July 24, 2014 12:49 pm EDT It has been said, "diversity management is a racket." Regrettably, there is a great deal of truth in this statement. In fact, "diversity management" has become a thriving industry [...]
I received a call from my sons’ school in March telling me that my oldest needed to be picked up early. He had been given a one-day suspension because he had thrown a chair. He did not hit anyone, but he could have, the school [...]
By Black&Smart, AKAdemic | Originally Published at Black&Smart July 14, 2014 There have been those times when my White brothers and sisters have suggested that my perspective couldn’t possibly be right because some other Black people didn’t hold that same view. The idea that Black people have [...]
By Black&Smart, AKAdemic | Originally Published at Black&Smart July 10, 2014 I have been studying race, racism and its damaging effects for most of my adult life. And I have witnessed the “racial fatigue” of people who don’t have to consciously deal with race. They tell me [...]
Photograph; Ernest Owens | Ernest Media Empire, Incorporated. By Ernest Owens | Originally Published at Huffington Post. Black Voices. July 8, 2014 5:38 PM EDT As society "progress," we have become a bunch of cultural sycophants obsessed with creating false affirmations and pseudo-solidarities. I quite frankly cannot [...]
