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Remembering Civil Rights 'Rightly'
(The Root) — Fifty years ago tomorrow, the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala., was bombed. Four little girls — Addie Mae Collins, Cynthia Wesley, Carole Robertson and Denise McNair — died in the blast. Violence broke out on the streets in Birmingham, a city with a long history of resistance to Jim Crow…
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How Race Plays in the 2012 Election
Associated Press polls show that as the country’s first black president nears the end of his first term, anti-African-American sentiment is up across the nation. Effigies of the president and other targets were seen in North Carolina, and the stereotypes many blacks thought we’d outpaced, like the welfare queen, reappeared. Imani Perry parses these moments…
Black News and Black Views with a Whole Lotta Attitude
