By Tiffanie Drayton | Originally Published at The Frisky. October 15, 2014 In case you are unaware, there is something called “The Whiteness Project.” Per the website, the project, from documentary director Whitney Dow, is “a multiplatform investigation into how Americans who identify as ‘white’ experience their [...]
By Ron Lester Whyte | Originally Published at Black Girl Dangerous. October 14, 2014 anti racism by zzalde What do the deaths of Aiyana Jones, Trayvon Martin, Andy Lopez, and Michael Brown, the 2012 Wisconsin Sikh Temple shooting, and the continued exploitation and occupation of Native lands [...]
By Robert B. Reich | Originally Published at Robert B. Reich. October 13, 2014 | Photographic Credit; People are led on a tour group at the campus of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Reich argues that by way of tax deductible contributions from wealthy donors, the federal [...]
By Ryan Gabrielson, Ryann Grochowski Jones and Eric Sagara | Originally Published at ProPublica. October 10, 2014 11:07 AM | Hannah Birch and David Sleight ProPublica A ProPublica analysis of killings by police shows outsize risk for young black males. Young black males in recent years were [...]
The moments of protest and frenzied media coverage that followed the deaths of Michael Brown, Jordan Davis, Trayvon Martin, Oscar Grant and too many others always bring me to the same thought: We have a problem with how we talk about the lives of young [...]
By Heather Ann Thompson | Originally Published at Huffington Post. October 6, 2014 5:59 am EDT | Juvenile Life Without Parole Photographic Credit; American Civil Liberties Union If 11-year-old Jordan Brown had yet had the opportunity in school to learn about the United Nations, it probably wouldn't [...]
By Tiffanie Drayton | Originally Published at The Frisky. October 6, 2014 Politically and socially, the most powerful demographic, with the exception of White men, is White women. Though still underrepresented in key economic and power positions, White women enjoy numerous social benefits, maintain political power as [...]
By Chocolate, Pomp, And Circumstance | Originally Published at Medium. on October 2, 2014 An Ohio couple, Jennifer Cramblett and Amanda Zinkon, whose child, Payton, is “obviously biracial” because of a mix-up at a sperm bank, is suing that sperm bank. The Sperm Bank Fucked* Up [...]
What do we teach our children when we do not know our history?Here’s Some History... By Blair L.M. Kelley | Originally Published at TheRoot. September 25, 2014 | Viola Davis stars in ABC’s new series How to Get Away With Murder. COURTESY OF ABC The pernicious nature [...]
