-
Black Girls Are Viewed as Less Innocent and More Adultlike Than White Girls: Study
A study released Tuesday reveals what many of us already know: Black girls in the age range of 5-14 are viewed as less innocent than their white counterparts, revealing that race is often a factor in how a child’s actions are perceived. “Girlhood Interrupted: The Erasure of Black Girls’ Childhood” (pdf) was released by the…
-
#Flint: City Council Approves Short-Term Water Contract After Heated Arguments at Meeting
Monday, June 26, was the deadline set by the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality for the Flint, Mich., City Council to either approve a 30-year contract with the Great Lakes Water Authority, provide an alternative long-term water solution or face legal action, and after a night of screaming matches between the public, council members and…
-
Emmett Till Historical Marker in Miss. Destroyed by Vandals
A historical marker created in Mississippi to memorialize and educate the public about the 1955 kidnapping and lynching death of 14-year-old Emmett Till was destroyed by vandals who obliterated all visible information about the death that helped galvanize the civil rights movement. Mamie Till Mobley had an open-casket funeral for her son to show how…
-
Black Lives Matter Demonstrators Briefly Halt 2017 Twin Cities Pride Festival in Minn.
Black Lives Matter demonstrators briefly halted the 2017 Twin Cities Pride Festival this past weekend in downtown Minneapolis, upset over the inclusion of police officers in the parade in the wake of the acquittal of a Minnesota police officer in the shooting death of Philando Castile. Thousands of people were gathered along the parade route…
-
Calif. Bans Travel to 4 More States That Discriminate Against LGBT Americans
California Attorney General Xavier Becerra announced Thursday that his state would prohibit state-funded and state-sponsored travel to Alabama, Kentucky, South Dakota and Texas because of discriminatory legislation enacted in those states that targets LGBT Americans. Becerra said, according to the California Department of Justice: Our country has made great strides in dismantling prejudicial laws that…
-
‘What Happened to Black Lives Matter?’ Movement for Black Lives Responds
An article was published Wednesday that questioned the organization, the leadership, the purpose, the plans and the goals of Black Lives Matter. It was an article that organizers in the Movement for Black Lives say included multiple inaccuracies, and as the group seeks corrections or a retraction, it responded with an op-ed of its own…
-
FBI Investigating Stabbing of Police Officer at Flint, Mich., Airport as Possible Act of Terrorism
A police officer was stabbed Wednesday at the Flint, Mich., international airport, and the FBI says it is investigating the incident as a possible act of terrorism because of statements the suspect reportedly made before attacking the officer. The assailant in the Wednesday-morning attack that prompted an evacuation and shutdown of Bishop International Airport has…
-
Is the Sacramento, Calif., Police Department Secretly Airing Its Grievances Through an Underground Facebook Page?
Tanya Faison, a self-described “abolitionist” with Black Lives Matter Sacramento in California’s state capital, has been the repeated target of attacks on a Facebook page purported to be the “unofficial voice to the hardworking men and women of the Sacramento Police Department.” “I’ve had to clean out the list of followers and block people because…
-
Barack Obama: Senate Health Care Bill Is a Massive Transfer of Wealth to the Richest People in America
Former President Barack Obama took to his official Facebook page Thursday to criticize the Senate health care bill released Thursday, calling it “a massive transfer of wealth” to “the richest people in America,” and asking the Senate to “take a step back and measure what’s really at stake.” “Our politics are divided,” Obama wrote. “They…
-
Congressional Black Caucus: Trump and His Administration Don’t Care About Black People
Rep. Cedric L. Richmond, Democrat from New Orleans and chair of the Congressional Black Caucus, wrote a three-page letter Wednesday to Donald Trump declining his invitation to the CBC to meet with him, and outlining the many reasons the group as a whole is saying no. In a letter dated June 21 (pdf), Richmond opened…
Black News and Black Views with a Whole Lotta Attitude
