Michael Kunzelman, The Baltimore Sun [dropcap]The[/dropcap] first black woman to serve as American University’s student government president is seeking more than $1.5 million in court-ordered damages against a neo-Nazi website operator who orchestrated an online harassment campaign against her. In a court filing Monday, Taylor Dumpson’s attorneys asked a federal judge in Washington for a […]
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The Racial Bias Built Into Photography | The New York Times
Sarah Lewis explores the relationship between racism and the camera.
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F.B.I. Was Told That Militia in New Mexico Planned to Kill Obama and Clinton | The New York Times
Simon Romero, The New York Times [dropcap]LAS[/dropcap] CRUCES, N.M. — Before the F.B.I. arrested Larry Hopkins, the leader of the right-wing militia that detained migrant families in the New Mexico desert, he’d had so many run-ins with the law that his police record stretched across much of the United States. Oregon police arrested him in […]
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These Harrowing Pictures Capture The Reality Of “Bloody Sunday” In 1965 | Buzzfeed
“There are no broad highways that lead us easily and inevitably to quick solutions. But we must keep going.” —Martin Luther King Jr.
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How a black man says he ‘outsmarted’ a neo-Nazi group and became their new leader | The Washington Post
Katie Mettler, The Washington Post One of the largest and oldest neo-Nazi groups in the United States appears to have an unlikely new leader: James Stern, a black activist who has vowed to dismantle it. (Rogelio V. Solis/AP), Featured Image [dropcap]Without[/dropcap] notifying his followers or even his inner circle, the longtime president of a legacy […]
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Searing New Documentary Reveals Lynching is “Always In Season” | Daily Kos
WB Reeves, Daily Kos Winokur Photography. Featured Image [dropcap]This[/dropcap] year’s Sundance Film Festival saw the premier of an important, emotionally wrenching documentary that exposes the raw and bleeding but unrecognized wound of lynching in the US past and present. Always In Season. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] It’s been one the supreme privileges of my life to have […]
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The War on Black Athletes | The Atlantic
Trump isn’t the first president to show such overt interest in sports, but he’s the only president in recent memory to attack athletes for their politics.
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Latent Prejudice Stirs When a Black Man Tries to Join a Charleston Club | The New York Times
Richard Fausset , The New York Times Dr. W. Melvin Brown III at his home in Charleston, S.C. At the encouragement of white friends in the Charleston Rifle Club, he applied for membership, but was rejected.CreditCreditHunter McRae for The New York Times. Featured Image [dropcap]CHARLESTON[/dropcap], S.C. — Though the Charleston Rifle Club was founded in […]
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Four Black Workers Met with Nooses, Swastikas, N-Words File Racial Discrimination Against San Francisco Construction Company | Atlanta Black Star
“All I want to do is go to work, do right by my family, and come home safe every day…”
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The Racist Trope That Won’t Die | The New York Times
The toxically racist ape characterization has been pushed to the margins of the public square.
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