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Your Take: Free Speech Works Both Ways
As an 8-year-old, I wanted to be a U.S. senator when I grew up. My parents were proud but warned me that it would be an uphill battle; there weren’t any black people in the Senate, and I would have to work extra hard to overcome prejudice. I remember thinking that my parents weren’t up…
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Your Take: Merger Fails, but Blacks Win
In the early ’60s, phone companies like Ma Bell used operators (all of whom were white in the South) to connect our calls. These operators, under the employment of the phone corporations, were reportedly often working with local police or the White Citizens’ Council and were known to block calls or report civil rights organizers’…
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White Supremacists Rally Around Pat Buchanan
Rashad Robinson, executive director of ColorOfChange, writes in a blog entry at the Huffington Post that after his organization launched a campaign last week calling on MSNBC to fire Pat Buchanan from his role as contributor and political analyst, white supremacists rallied around him. They want to make sure he maintains a position on a…
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Troy Davis Is Dead; the Movement Continues
Rashad Robinson is executive director of Color of Change, the nation’s largest online civil rights organization. Follow Color of Change on Twitter.
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Your Take: The Jobless Aren't Lazy
Unemployment is at 9.1 percent, unemployment among black and Latino Americans is even higher (at 16.7 percent and 11.3 percent respectively) and job creation has risen to the top of the government’s agenda. So what are many top Republicans saying about the struggles of millions of Americans who can’t find work? That it’s their own…
Black News and Black Views with a Whole Lotta Attitude
