By Chauncey DeVega | Originally Published at We are respectable negroes. October 31, 2014 | Illustration Vivian James Video Games #GamerGate I have not written about the internet troll debacle that has come to be known as "GamerGate". I have made that choice for a number of [...]
By Tiffanie Drayton | Originally Published at The Frisky. October 31, 2014 Dear Hollaback & Rob Bliss Creative, I have watched your collaborative video depicting the menacing street harassment of a young, white woman as she casually walked through the streets of New York. You captured dozens [...]
My (Often Painful) Online Education By Paul L. Thomas, Ed.D. | Originally Published at The Becoming Radical. October 30, 2014 No, I have not been taking part in a MOOC or signed up for an online degree because an NFL player has been hired to [...]
The white people of Ferguson are scared of Halloween. So scared that they cancelled it, and then rescheduled it, and then confined its alternative to a certain part of town. They say they’re worried “about opening their doors…as well as for [their] children’s safety.” “We [...]
This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. Dr. Eric Cooper is a firm believer in a phrase that many don't take very seriously anymore: "No child left behind." In this heart wrenching and invigorating talk, Dr. Cooper [...]
By Robert B. Reich | Originally Published at Robert Reich. October 27, 2014 | Image from Flickr user Marian Dörk. Commenting on a recent student suicide at an Alaska high school, Alaska’s Republican Congressman Don Young said suicide didn’t exist in Alaska before “government largesse” gave residents [...]
In 1900, W. E. B. Du Bois declared that “the problem of the 20th century” would be “the problem of the color line.” His prediction is just as true for our 21st century. Black men and women in contemporary America are judged not by the [...]
By Bruce Fuller, University of California, Berkeley | Originally Published at The Conversation. October 24, 2014 5:49 AM | Photograph; Better hurry up if you want a place. Reuters/Adrees Latif Rookie New York mayor Bill de Blasio – poster child for America’s insurgent progressives – has promised [...]
By Paul Thomas, Furman University | Originally Published at the The Conversation. October 24, 2014 | Adrian Peterson has been indicted for injury to a child. Arvee5.0, CC BY US sports continue to struggle with the controversies surrounding Ray Rice’s domestic violence case, and the arrest of [...]
