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 [...]
By Jenée Desmond-Harris | Originally Published at Vox. March 4, 2015, 8:40 a.m. ET You've probably heard it before: too many black students don't do well in school because they think being smart means "acting white." It's a popular thing to say, but it's not true. At [...]
Today’s New York Times tries its hand at explaining why on earth something as silly as neighborhood public schools could bedevil Rahm Emanuel right out of his incumbent throne as Mayor of Chicago. My home is on Chicago’s South Side, on a street full of cops [...]
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, [...]
By Courtney Robinson and Jennifer Keys Adair | Originally Published at Chicago Reporter. February 27, 2015 | Photographic Credit; Courtesy of The Library of Congress Childhood lessons about black history often overlook important but less well-known figures including (from left) Bayard Rustin, Andrew Young, (second from right) [...]
By Adrienne Maree Brown | Originally Published at Yes! Magazine. February 24, 2015 | Photographic credit; Millions March NYC, December 2014. By B.C. Lorio. The people dying are moms and dads, kids and teenagers, nerdy, quiet boys and girls. This movement is showing what wholeness looks like [...]
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 [...]
By Tiffanie Drayton | Originally Published at The Frisky. February 24, 2015 Patricia Arquette’s Oscar acceptance speech imploring for wage equality was met with applause by her peers, including Meryl Streep. However, as The Frisky told you yesterday, her backstage interview — which was reasonably referred to [...]
By Jim Hightower | Originally Published at AlterNet. February 19, 2015 |Photographic Credit; Chicago Buildings Skyscrapers Sunset (Generic Image) "Reclaim Chicago" has a bold progressive plan to reclaim the Windy City from the one percent. Chicago! City of broad shoulders. Plutocratic hog butcher. Toolmaker for progressive [...]
