The first step to being a white anti-racist ally is doing the work of learning on your own. By Kali Holloway | Originally Published at AlterNet. April 8, 2015 [People of color] are expected to educate white people as to our humanity. Women are expected to educate [...]
By Brianna | Originally Published at Chocolate, Pomp, and Circumstances . February 21, 2015 I read way too many internet comments, so I see that many people believe that if we just stop “race baiting” and talking about race, it will disappear. In case you were confused, [...]
3 Arrested at Die-In at Rahm Emanuel’s Office By Yana Kunichoff | Originally Published at In These Times. March 24, 2015 Protesters demand reforms to alleged abuses in Chicago’s criminal justice system, including a discriminatory “stop-and-frisk” program and secret interrogation site. A chaotic scene played out on [...]
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 [...]
I am a college professor. It is an essential part of my identity. Yes, I research, publish (not as much as I should), and consult but nothing gives me greater joy than my interactions with my students. Teaching, particularly the motley crew of pre-adults known [...]
SELMA, Ala. — The memory is as powerful as if it were yesterday. On March 25, 1965, tens of thousands of us gathered before the Alabama State Capitol, the endpoint of a five-day, 54-mile march from Selma to Montgomery. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. called out, [...]
