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How Detroit’s Case Against Black Lives Matter Protesters Fell Apart | WKAR 90.5

April 9, 2021April 9, 2021Black Lives Matter, Race ...

— ELI NEWMAN | WDET A federal judge tossed out a city lawsuit filed against the protesters in March. The decision comes as hundreds of criminal charges against demonstrators were dismissed. While the trial of former police officer Derek Chauvin continues in Minneapolis, other legal proceedings have cropped up around the country in connection to the […]

When White People Give Other White People Credit For Not Being Racist | Data Driven Investor

January 7, 2021January 7, 2021Race, Race Relations ...

— WILLIAM SPIVEY, DATA DRIVEN INVESTOR Because I apparently have masochistic tendencies, I follow the blog of conservative lawyer Jonathan Turley. While he would no doubt claim to be even-handed, he is always ready to defend most everything Trump does and criticizes the actions of those on the left while ignoring most of what the […]

This is how we can tackle anti-blackness in the South Asian community | I-D Magazine

July 3, 2020July 3, 2020Race Relations

Activists and organisers weigh in on how to root out the deep-seated colourism and harmful anti-Black ideals that pervade the South Asian community today. By Tahmina Begum, I-D Magazine Whether it’s the present-day alienation of Sidi community, who were first brought to the Indian subcontinent as slaves, or the colourism that darker-skinned desis have had to deal […]

White Parents Protest Georgia High School Holding First Racially Integrated Prom | EJI, A History of Racial Injustice

April 21, 2020Race Relations, Racism

On April 21, 2007, Turner County High School students attended the school’s first racially integrated prom. Located in Ashburn, Georgia, a small, rural, peanut-farming town of 4,400 residents, the school’s racial demographics reflected those of the local community: 55% black and 45% white. The prom theme, “Breakaway,” was chosen to signify a break from the […]

When Minneapolis Segregated | City Lab

January 16, 2020January 16, 2020African American History, Race Relations

In the early 1900s, racial housing covenants in the Minnesota city blocked home sales to minorities, establishing patterns of inequality that persist today. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] Before it was torn apart by freeway construction in the middle of the 20th century, the Near North neighborhood in Minneapolis was home to the city’s largest concentration of African […]

The Privilege of White Victimhood | Dame Magazine

January 6, 2020January 6, 2020Race, Race Relations ...

We’re in the grips of a peak white-pity party moment. And it has the potential to incite a riot. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] Being an actual victim of anything sucks. This is a thing we are supposed to learn as we grow up. We’re supposed to grow out of the phase where we get jealous of the […]

White people assume niceness is the answer to racial inequality. It’s not | The Guardian

January 1, 2020January 1, 2020African American Commuities, Race ...

“While most of us see ourselves as ‘not racist’, we continue to reproduce racist outcomes and live segregated lives.” [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] I am white. As an academic, consultant and writer on white racial identity and race relations, I speak daily with other white people about the meaning of race in our lives. These conversations are […]

The Norfolk 17 face a hostile reception as schools reopen | The Virginian-Pilot

December 31, 2019African American History, Black History ...

Three weeks later than originally scheduled, Norfolk schools were finally ready to open. Well, most of them. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] On Sept. 29, 1958, 48 of Norfolk’s schools welcomed students – but the doors of six were padlocked and under police guard. Maury, Norview and Granby high schools and Northside, Norview and Blair junior highs remained […]

The FBI Spends a Lot of Time Spying on Black Americans | The Intercept

October 30, 2019October 30, 2019African American Commuities, American Racism ...

THE FBI HAS come under intense criticism after a 2017 leak exposed that its counterterrorism division had invented a new, unfounded domestic terrorism category it called “black identity extremism.” Since then, legislators have pressured the bureau’s leadership to be more transparent about its investigation of black activists, and a number of civil rights groups have […]

Outrage Grows After Two White Men Physically Attack Black Student At The University Of Arizona | Essence

September 17, 2019KINDR'D, KINDR'D Magazine ...

University of Arizona students are outraged that two White assailants were referred to social justice training after attacking a Black student on campus.