Category: Race

By Tom Gjelten, NPR When a young Southern Baptist pastor named Alan Cross arrived in Montgomery, Ala., in January 2000, he knew it was where the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. had his first church and where Rosa Parks helped launched the famous bus boycott, but he didn’t know some other details of the city’s role […]

It took years of work behind the scenes, both with the Associated Press and despite seemingly sacred style rules. By Kristen Hare, Poynter Lori Tharps was at work in her basement home office in Philadelphia on June 19 when she got a text: The Associated Press Stylebook — the grammar bible for journalists — would start […]

By Scott McDonald, Newsweek The Washington Redskins have avoided changing the team’s nickname for more than 50 years of political pressure. Politicians and human rights advocacy groups could not find a way to make it happen. But in a span of a few hours on Thursday, two major corporate sponsors may have sacked the team’s ability to […]

From unjustified stops of Black teenagers to a device to torment people in custody, racist police brutality runs deep. By Laurence Ralph, The New York Times I made the film above to explain exactly what it means to be policed in America today. It moves from my own experiences with racial profiling as a teenager […]

Many white people have been moved by the current movement, but how will they respond when true equality threatens their privilege? By Charles M. Blow, The New York Times In 1964, during what was called Freedom Summer, over 700 mostly white young liberals descended on Mississippi to help register black voters. The attention that effort […]

By Lisa Ko, PBS Coerced sterilization is a shameful part of America’s history, and one doesn’t have to go too far back to find examples of it. Used as a means of controlling “undesirable” populations – immigrants, people of color, poor people, unmarried mothers, the disabled, the mentally ill – federally-funded sterilization programs took place in 32 states […]

By EJI Staff, EJI, Equal Justice Initiative On June 14, 1973, fourteen-year-old Minnie Lee Relf and her twelve-year-old mentally disabled sister, Mary Alice, were sterilized without their knowledge or consent after nurses with the Montgomery Family Planning Clinic — a federally-funded agency — deceived their illiterate mother into believing that she was agreeing to have the […]

By Kate Smith, CBS News The Mississippi state legislature voted on Sunday to replace its state flag, the last in the nation to display the Confederate battle emblem. The removal of the flag marks the latest Confederate symbol to topple in the weeks following George Floyd’s death as activists have called for a reexamination of the racism that exists in all […]

By Meera Jagannathan, MarketWatch ‘It’s really important for us to understand that we need to be always working for racial justice, whether there’s dramatic moments or not’ Maybe you posted a black square on Instagram FB, -7.51%, donated money to a racial-justice organization, reflected with friends about your own privilege, or purchased a title from one of the internet’s many […]

By Shaun King, Medium On this past Tuesday morning I received a very alarming text message from a friend. Inside of a private Facebook group for California Law Enforcement Officers, members of the group were openly plotting and planning my assassination. Sadly, I receive death threats daily. It’s been that for years, but they are mainly from […]