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‘Because You’re Black’
By Nathan Place and Erin Durkin, NYDailyNews.com At the Framboise Patisserie in Middle Village, Queens, the pastries are elegant, the cakes are custom-made — and city officials say the hiring is discriminatory.“I can’t hire you because you’re black,” Jamilah DaCosta, 25, said she heard when she applied for a job working the counter at the…
Read MoreHate Crime Punished With Excecution
By Julie Carr Smyth, TheBigStory.ap.org A white gunman who spewed racial slurs before fatally shooting a black man and a police officer in a 1994 rampage that prosecutors called one of Ohio’s worst crimes was put to death Wednesday with the state’s last dose of its execution drug. (…) Mitts was convicted of aggravated murder…
Read MoreAct Like a Slave?
By Jamil Smith, Tv.Msnbc.com When James Baker heard the words “Nature’s Classroom” in reference to the Massachusetts location of his 12-year-old daughter’s forthcoming four-day field trip, he thought she and her fellow students would “just be going to learn what side of the tree moss grows on.” Instead, as he and his wife Sandra described…
Read MoreNew Mandela Film Well Received in South Africa
By Ron Allen, NBCnews.com, TheGrio.com I think he would be pleased.” The words of Ahmed Kathrada, one of Nelson Mandela’s closest confidants, giving what he thinks would be Mandela’s assessment of the new film based on his autobiography Long Walk to Freedom. “This will be the first fairly complete resume of his life from childhood onward,” Kathrada…
Read MoreWhat is a “Black Name”?
By Jamelle Bouie, TheDailyBeast.com Reddit isn’t just a clearinghouse for interviews, animal pictures, and crazy stories. It’s also a place where people ask questions and have discussions. (…) One user wondered about “black” names, posing a question to the “Black American parents of Reddit,” as he put it. “Before racism is called out, I have plenty…
Read MoreTiana Parker Hair Controversy
By Rebecca Klein, HuffingtonPost.com Controversy continues to brew over an Oklahoma charter school’s dress code banning “hairstyles such as dreadlocks, afros, mohawks and other faddish styles.” The policy rose to national prominence last week when 7-year-old Tiana Parker spoke out about being reprimanded by Deborah Brown Community School officials for wearing dreadlocks. State legislators are…
Read MoreTeenage Waitress Receives Racist Tip
An image of a receipt left by a customer with a racist remark toward a Black waitress has gone viral after she shared it on social media.
Read MoreFreedom House Church Not So Free
By Carrie Healey, TheGrio.com The lead pastor of Freedom House Church in North Carolina sent an e-mail to her congregation requesting that “only white people” serve as greeters. Carmen Thomas, an African-American member of the church, reached out to WBTV upon receiving the e-mail. “I was floored,” Thomas said during an interview with the local station.…
Read More‘The Butler’: Lifting the Veil on Black Life
By Henry Louis Gates Jr., TheRoot.com I watched Lee Daniels’ The Butler in a standing-room-only theater on Martha’s Vineyard, with a thoroughly integrated audience of well-educated black and white people, whose ages ranged from teenagers and college students to midcareer professionals and retirees. The audience sat riveted over the entire course of the film, alternatively moved to laugh…
Read MoreNAACP: Stop-and-frisk Ruling a ‘Groundbreaking Victory’
By Lily Workneh, TheGrio.com Judge Shira Scheindlin ruled Mondy morning that New York City’s Police Department’s stop-and-frisk practice violated constitutional rights – and the NAACP is pleased with her decision. (…) “This is a groundbreaking victory,” said NAACP President Ben Jealous. “Judge Scheindlin recognized what the NAACP has been saying for years: the racial profiling tactic…
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