Integration, Segregation, [De]Humanization
BY NOW MANY have read and been moved by the extraordinary mea culpa published in the Shreveport Times by a man named Marty Stroud III, who more than 30 years ago sent Glenn Ford to die for a crime he did not commit. “How wrong [...]
By: Tiffanie Drayton | Originally Published at The Frisky. | March 23, 2015 | Image Credit; IBN Live. When I read an article (via Facebook) about a 23-year-old man being charged with the rape of a 12-year-old girl, after being caught by the child’s mother engaging in [...]
Journalists, pundits and authors love to claim how "hard" it is for them to write certain stories. Sometimes this is just a cheap emotional trick to draw in the reader, other times it is a sincere way of acknowledging just how hard it is to [...]
By Rebecca Carroll | Originally Published at The Guardian and Observer.
By Deborah N. Archer | Originally Published Huffington Post. March 15, 2015 9:44 PM EDT On March 9, a 15-year old Brooklyn teenager was viciously attacked by a group of girls inside a local McDonald's. Video of the incident shows five or six girls repeatedly punching and [...]
White fragility' is a defensive response to real conversations about race. By Sam Adler-Bell | Originally Published at AlterNet. March 12, 2015 | Illustration Credit; AngertAesthetics Stop me if you’ve heard this one. Last year, a white male Princeton undergraduate was asked by a classmate [...]
Last July 4, my family and I went to Long Island to celebrate the holiday with a friend and her family. After eating some barbecue, a group of us decided to take a walk along the ocean. The mood on the beach that day was [...]
Don't imagine that being a racist is something that only happens to other people. By Kali Holloway | Originally Published at AlterNet. March 2, 2015 } Photographic Credit; Integration Crisis; Black and white children at a party to introduce mixed schools during the civil rights movement, Virginia, [...]
NEW HAVEN — THE recent reunion show for the 40th anniversary of “Saturday Night Live” re-aired a portion of Eddie Murphy’s 1984 classic “White Like Me” skit, in which he disguised himself to appear Caucasian and quickly learned that “when white people are alone, they [...]
