Michael Dunn got away with murder. Oh, he’ll likely spend the rest of his life in prison on the three counts of attempted second-degree murder. Those are the charges of which a Jacksonville, Fla., jury took four days to find him guilty, for the 10 bullets he fired at 17-year-old Jordan Davis and his three…

The slaying of 17-year-old Jordan Davis by a white man who didn’t appreciate his taste in music had some black people scrambling to give black boys “the talk” about how not to scare white people into shooting them. The Rev. John Guns, pastor of St. Paul Missionary Baptist Church in Jacksonville, Fla., was one of…

I’m worried that Marissa Alexander might end up becoming another Claudette Colvin. Colvin was the teenager who in March of 1955—nine months before Rosa Parks sparked the civil rights movement by famously refusing to give up her bus seat to a white man—was hauled off a bus, handcuffed and jailed for doing the same thing.…

Since Barack Obama made history as the nation’s first black president in 2008, efforts to whitewash all the other history that the nation had to overcome to get to that moment have been leaking into lesson plans. Two years after his election, Texas made massive changes to its textbook curriculum that, among other things, watered…

In “a society dominated by forces bent on breaking” black boys “instead of nurturing them,” it’s important for families to show that they believe in their children, especially when it comes to education, Tonyaa Weathersbee writes at BlackAmericaWeb. Raising black boys to be successful in a society dominated by forces that are bent on breaking…

BlackAmericaWeb blogger Tonyaa Weathersbee writes that with an unemployment rate of 13.8 percent, blacks in America face a bleak economic landscape. And jobs that once paved the way to the middle class are being replaced by technology. … Black unemployment is at 13.8 percent — nearly double that of whites. According to The Washington Post,…

In a post at BlackAmericaWeb, Tonyaa Weathersbee dismantles a plan by Arizona’s controversial Sheriff Joe Arpaio to have armed posses patrol elementary schools, saying the idea can easily go awry. Arpaio is known for his anti-immigration stance and for touting Obama Birther conspiracies. This doesn’t smell right. In fact, it has the downright stench of…

Writing at BlackAmericaWeb, Tonyaa Weathersbee explains the importance of the civil rights issue currently before the Supreme Court. If nothing else, the election of the nation’s first black president has ushered in its share of contradictions.

President Obama’s 2008 victory, for example, was initially billed as a post-racial beginning for this country. Unfortunately, it wound up…