By Michelle Asha Cooper | Originally Published at InsideHigherEd June 22, 2015 Racism exists in American society. This fact may be an inconvenient truth for some, but for millions of Americans it is an ever-present, inescapable aspect of their reality. And while racism -- or its persistent [...]
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 [...]
Blaming 'mental illness' is a cop-out -- and one that lets us avoid talking about race, guns, hatred and terrorism By Arthur Chu | Originally Published at ,Salon. June 18, 2015 7:00 PM EDT | Photographic Credit; Adam Lanza, Dylann Roof, Elliot Rodger (Credit: AP/Reuters)] I get [...]
By Tiffanie Drayton | Originally Published at The Frisky. June 18, 2015 | Photographic Credit; Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama and the historic Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, Charleston, South Carolina, now forever forged together throughout time. A White man named Dylann Storm Roof walked [...]
By Tiffanie Drayton | Originally Published at Clutch Magazine. | Photographic Credit; Worshippers embrace following a group prayer across the street from the scene of a shooting at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church on Wednesday night. (Photograph By David Goldman/AP) For the Black community, yesterday was [...]
I remember Justine Black from elementary school. She was smart. She was brown, but not brown like me. I was black like most of the other kids in our class. I remember Justine because she was a good friend of mine. I knew that she was [...]
Kalief Browder was murdered, in the first degree. The papers will say that on Saturday, Browder, 22, walked into a room in his home, took the air conditioner out of a wall and hanged himself. But this was a premeditated murder of spirit, innocence, youth and [...]
More than 400,000 people are murdered each year globally and more than 50,000 are killed in armed conflict. Some 80 per cent of those killed are men. And more than 97 per cent of those who carry out homicides are men. As we watch the latest [...]
