This powerful video takes a candid look at being a young black man in America. The New York Times asked young black men to share their experiences growing up in America.
Baltimore Killed Freddie Gray - Emily Lieb. The past isn’t past.
William Faulkner said it, and Freddie Gray’s death proves it. For the past 100 years, the people who had the power in Baltimore built a city in which white property was more important than black citizenship—they created a city, you might say, that killed Freddie Gray. “The coming of violence to Baltimore’s ghetto,” began the American Friends Service Committee’s report on the Baltimore uprising in April 1968, “was no surprise.”
Those 1968 riots, sparked by the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., were fueled by the abuses and indignities that had set-off riots in other American cities: in Baltimore, just as in Watts and Harlem and Newark and Louisville and Detroit, white children went to better schools than black children, played in cleaner parks and community centers and rarely had to watch as police officers harassed their parents for no good reason. One still tends to wonder. Building the Slums Their first target was the schools. Map of Most Common Race. It's been a challenge for me to fully understand what's been going on lately, so I find myself looking at a lot of data and maps.
It kind of feels like grasping at straws, but at least it's something. The map above shows the most prevalent race in each county, based on data from the 2013 American Community Survey 5-year estimates. Select and deselect to make various comparisons. Or, select just one race to see distribution. Low, medium, and high saturation indicates whether the prevalent race percentage is below or about the same, higher (greater than the national average plus-minus interval), or much higher than the national average (at least 50% higher), respectively. For reference, the national estimates from the 5-year 2013 estimates where 63.3% white, 16.6% percent Hispanic, 12.2% black, 4.8% Asian, 0.7% Native American or Alaskan, and 0.2% Pacific Islander.
Click, drag, and zoom for details. The Problem With Natural Hair On TV. By Taylor Bryant If you tuned in to "How to Get Away with Murder" recently, you know that Viola Davis has spent some screen time without her wig on.
It proved not only to be a raw and emotional episode, but it displayed a rare moment: a Black woman with natural hair on a mainstream TV network. Millennials Are More Racist Than They Think - Sean McElwee - POLITICO Magazine. Research Projects. Achievement Gap. Resegregation in the American South. Racial Profiling A Lifelong Reality For Ta-Nehisi Coates. Each week, Weekend Edition Sunday host Rachel Martin brings listeners an unexpected side of the news by talking with someone personally affected by the stories making headlines.
Red Lobster Waitress Gets $10K Tip After Racist Receipt. The Racial Dot Map: One Dot Per Person for the Entire U.S. Terms of Use Add Map Labels Remove Color-Coding Hide Overlays What am I looking at...?
Tweet Share. Class reunion letter lists 'white graduates only' party. Graduates from the St.
Alabama pastor holds ‘whites only’ conference. A controversial pastor's conference welcoming only "white Christians" is underway in Lamar County, Ala., upsetting residents of the nearby town of Winfield in the western part of the state.
Christian Identity Ministries is holding a three-day conference for so-called "white Christians" who contend they have been treated unfairly, the Rev. Mel Lewis told local TV station WSFA. Letter from freed slave to former master draws attention. Tender Photos Unearthed from a Turbulent Time. Know Anyone Who Thinks Racial Profiling Is Exaggerated? Watch This, And Tell Me When Your Jaw Drops. Prospects_for_Equity_in%20_Boston_Schools. What We Mean When We Say 'Race Is a Social Construct' - Ta-Nehisi Coates. Walter White.
Chairman of the NAACP. Black dude. (The Walter White Project) Brute Caricature. The brute caricature portrays black men as innately savage, animalistic, destructive, and criminal -- deserving punishment, maybe death.
This brute is a fiend, a sociopath, an anti-social menace. Black brutes are depicted as hideous, terrifying predators who target helpless victims, especially white women. Charles H. The Race Card Project: Six-Word Essays. Ex-Republicans claim Fla. GOP suppressed Democratic vote. Former Republican Party of Florida Chairman Jim Greer has been claiming for months that state party members engineered a new law to suppress voter turnout, falsely touting voter fraud concerns to advance their mission. Now, other former Republicans and consultants are backing Greer up, The Palm Beach Post reports. Greer, who is under indictment and accused of funneling campaign funds from the Republican Party, has been claiming that state Republicans supported a law (HB 1355)—which, in part, curtailed early voting—simply as a means to stymie the Democratic vote.
Staff and consultants "never came in to see me and tell me we had a (voter) fraud issue," Greer told the newspaper. "It's all a marketing ploy. " Former Republican Gov. Eric Holder on voter ID laws: ‘We call those poll taxes’ Click image to view more photos. (Chris Graythen/Getty Images) Speaking before the NAACP, Attorney General Eric Holder departed from his prepared speech on Tuesday, decrying voter ID laws that have been proposed in 10 states so far. Talking Points Memo reports:
Racism Dead; Hub Woman Rejoices - The Hyphenated Life. As a 41-year-old black woman living in America, you can imagine my visceral reaction. Kentucky church bans interracial marriage.