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Black Women and Girls May Run the World, but They’re Not Safe in It
In black America during the 1970s, the portraits of MLK, JFK and Jesus hung on every family’s wall. Today, the new trinity of Oprah, Beyoncé and Michelle Obama could almost replace them. But the increasing power and cultural influence of black women don’t equal protection. Black women’s accomplishments, despite their continuing struggle, illuminate how sexist…
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Should Black Folks Trust the FBI’s Russia Investigation, Given Its History of Targeting Our Communities?
Why trust the FBI or any intelligence agency on Russia? They targeted civil rights activists for years. We really don’t have proof of the Russians doing anything. Why trust these agencies now? These are completely legitimate questions that I hear from black folks from time to time on social media and in person. I get…
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Officials in Lexington, Ky., Approve Plan to Move Confederate Monuments From Outside Former Courthouse
Officials in Lexington, Ky., have cast their vote on the push to relocate two Confederate statues from outside a former courthouse that is being converted into a visitors center. According to CBS News, the proposal to move the two statues that were erected to honor Confederate officers John Hunt Morgan and John C. Breckinridge was…
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White Power Is About White Victimhood, and It’s Everywhere
It’s been less than a week since the much-discussed Unite the Right white nationalist demonstration erupted in Charlottesville, Va., resulting in the tragic death of counterprotester Heather Heyer and the injuries of 35 people. We’ve since been inundated with commentary, reactions and subsequent statements from celebs, pundits, elected officials and, unfortunately, Donald Trump. For now,…
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2 KKK Members Who Were Correctional Officers in Fla. Convicted in Plot to Kill Black Inmate
Two Ku Klux Klan members who also somehow managed to serve as correctional officers for the Florida Department of Corrections were both convicted in a plot to kill a black inmate upon the man’s release, Attorney General Pam Bondi announced Tuesday. As News4Jax reports, David Elliot Moran, 49, and Charles Thomas Newcomb, 45, were each…
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Trump Campaign Video Attacks April Ryan
‘Sad day I am singled out as an enemy of the White House’ Trump Shamed Into Calling Out Racists ‘Haven’t You Spread A Lot of Fake News Yourself, Sir?’ ‘The Hardest Part of My Job. . .’ Kaepernick Dilemma Deserves Black Cultural View NABJ, NAHJ Announce Joint Convention in 2020 Maynard Institute Plans Education, Pipeline…
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Lexington, Ky., Mayor Says Confederate Statues Are Coming Down After Charlottesville, Va., Tragedy
It usually takes a tragedy for there to be any substantive change around race in this country, and perhaps the death of Heather Heyer is the latest in that vein. On Saturday the mayor of Lexington, Ky., said that he is going to remove two Confederate monuments from his city’s former courthouse in light of…
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7 Journalists of Color Leaving Houston Chronicle
Paper’s Staffing Out of Step With Diverse Region ‘Diversity’ Said to Miss Point of Affirmative Action Media See Threat to Freedoms in Leak Crackdown Immigration Plan: ‘Make America White Again’ Overlooked: Trump Appointments to Federal Courts Alternative-Media Group to Take Diversity Census After 9 Years, U.S. Refuses Mexican Ex-Journalist Maria Elena Salinas to Leave Univision…
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‘Give Me Your Tired English Speakers Only’: Surreal Exchange at the White House
‘Give Me Your Tired English-Speakers Only’ Justice Department to Seek Out Bias Against Whites K.C. Editorial: We Don’t Want to Be the New Miss. Alternative Press Tackles Deportation, Black Arrests Adams Simmons Joins National Geographic Short Takes “How strange was Wednesday’s White House press briefing?” Callum Borchers asked Wednesday for the Washington Post. “Put it…
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Procter & Gamble Release an Ad About ‘the Talk,’ and White People Respond With the Wettest, Saltiest, Stupidest White Tears Ever
The talk is literally a talk many black parents have with their children to inform them of the dangers of “existing while black” and the myriad things out there actively trying to kill us. Well, those. And racism. And the police. And America. And Darth Beckys, Darth Susans and Darth Chads. And mysterious casseroles left…