Category: Race

— Kim Chandler Associated Press, Black News Channel More than a dozen sticks of dynamite planted by Ku Klux Klansmen exploded at a Birmingham church in 1963, killing four Black girls. The “fifth little girl,” Sarah Collins Rudolph, survived but still has shards of glass in her body from the blast that took her sister, […]

— JAMES DOUBEK, Texas Public Radio In February 1965, two of America’s most towering public intellectuals faced off at the University of Cambridge in England. They were there to debate the proposition: “The American Dream is at the expense of the American Negro.” Novelist and essayist James Baldwin argued in favor. He did so by […]

— EJI Staff, EJI, Equal Justice Initiative On the morning of Sunday, September 15, 1963, a white man was seen placing a box under the steps of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama. Shortly afterward, the explosives inside detonated, devastating the church building and the 400 congregants inside. Parents rushed to the Sunday […]

The black people I come from were owned and raped by the white people I come from. Who dares to tell me to celebrate them? — Caroline Randall Williams, The New York Times NASHVILLE — I have rape-colored skin. My light-brown-blackness is a living testament to the rules, the practices, the causes of the Old […]

“We can thank ‘Hawk’ for maintaining the photographs, the costumes, the films, the memorabilia, and the artifacts of New Orleans street culture,” Mayor LaToya Cantrell said in a statement — Janice Gassam Asare, Forbes President Trump just made a major announcement that will surely have a huge impact on the diversity, equity and inclusion industry. Trump is […]

The Texas Rangers were vicious enforcers of white power. J.T. Canales was the only Mexican American in the legislature. He lost the fight, but the reckoning he sought is finally underway. By Tim Murphy, Mother Jones When the wave of protests swept the United States this spring in the aftermath of the killing of George Floyd, […]

By Brea Baker, Parade Essayist. Activist. Visionary. Playwright. Queer, Black Man. Revolutionary. James Baldwin is all of this and more. Some fall in love with his characters and others find solace in his righteous anger but the one thing we all have in common is a reverence for the way he uses prose to shift consciousness. Best […]

By Katie Shepherd, The Washington Post As protests gripped Oakland on May 29, a white van pulled up outside a federal courthouse. A door slid open, and a man peppered the two security officers outside with bullets, killing one and wounding the other. For a little over a week, the crime was a mystery. Was […]

An armed individual was filmed shooting multiple protesters in Kenosha in videos posted on social media. By Manthan Chheda, International Business Times An man armed with an assault rifle has been linked to at least two shootings in Kenosha, Wisconsin, on Tuesday night as protests over the shooting of Jacob Blake took a violent turn. […]