— 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 […]
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When White People Give Other White People Credit For Not Being Racist | Data Driven Investor
— 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 […]
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Return to Charleston, South Carolina | The Polis
— William Spivey, The Polis Charleston, at its original site when it was Charles Town, was founded in 1670. The original site was abandoned and relocated to the present location in 1680, soon becoming the new nation’s fifth-largest city. The foundation for Charleston’s growth was its role in the international slave trade. What made Charleston […]
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Black people were denied vanilla ice cream in the Jim Crow south – except on Independence Day | The Guardian
One result of legalized racism in America was this strange limit, which helped teach kids the rules of a segregated society — Michael W Twitty, The Guardian By custom rather than by law, black folks were best off if they weren’t caught eating vanilla ice cream in public in the Jim Crow South, except – […]
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The Unsung Hero Who Protected a Complete Stranger From Her Racist Neighbor For 90 Days | LEVEL
Queens rapper turned community watchman Anthony Herron Jr. epitomized the phrase ‘Protect Black women’ — John Kennedy, LEVEL Jennifer McLeggan felt she was all out of options. The 39-year-old single mother and registered nurse had been racially harassed by her neighbor for the three years since she first moved into her Long Island house just […]
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A History of Mediocre White Men (and How They Get Ahead) | ZORA
Author Ijeoma Oluo dissects the issue in new book ‘Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America’ — Adrienne Samuels Gibbs, ZORA We all joke about having the confidence of a mediocre White man, but New York Times bestselling author Ijeoma Oluo breaks down what this really means in her new book, Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male […]
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Nothing Gets Racists Angry Like Black Santa | LEVEL
It’s an embarrassment of riches in our weekly roundup of the world’s most preventable disease! — LEVEL Editors, LEVEL “Kris Kringle” doesn’t have quite enough Ks for some folks, we guess Chris Kennedy’s father died on Thanksgiving 15 years ago, and every year when the holiday rolls around, Kennedy commemorates him by decorating his […]
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Black firefighters in NC allege racism amid larger reckoning | Black News Channel
— Tom Foreman, Jr., Associated Press, Black News Channel WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (AP) — They threw her new cellphone on the roof of the station house and placed nails under the wheels of her pickup truck. As she prepared to answer a call, someone poured tobacco juice in her boots. It was too much for […]
View MoreThe Curious Case of the Racist Science Professor Who Didn’t Believe in Covid | LEVEL
It’s an embarrassment of riches in our weekly roundup of the world’s most preventable disease! — LEVEL Editors, LEVEL Death and taxes used to be the only two certainties in life. But no matter how much progress it feels like we’re making sometimes, the sad fact is you can probably slide racism into that list. […]
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Teaching Racial Justice Isn’t Racial Justice | The New York Times
There is a place for education in the fight against racism, but we shouldn’t confuse it for the fight itself. — BENJAMIN Y. FONG, THE NEW YORK TIMES In the wake of the murder of George Floyd and the season of protests for equality and against police violence that followed, universities are seeking to affirm […]
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