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Colin Kaepernick’s Jersey Hangs in the Same Museum as ‘Starry Night’
by Priscilla Frank, HuffPost Black Voices One of the most recent additions to the halls of New York’s Museum of Modern Art is a red San Francisco 49ers jersey. The same jersey worn by Colin Kaepernick between 2011 and 2016. Kaepernick’s sports jersey hangs with four others featured in the ongoing MoMA exhibition “Items: Is Fashion Modern?”, which…
Boy’s Near-Hanging Compels Town to Open Discussion on Racism
By Michael Casey, The Grio/Associated Press CLAREMONT, N.H. (AP) — In this struggling mill town in western New Hampshire, racism was never something people talked all that much about. There were people who drove around Claremont with Confederate flag bumper stickers in the mostly white town of 14,000 and some instances of high schoolers using…
Racial Slur Scrawled on Black Military Cadets’ Doors–Academy Response Weak
By Jason Johnson, The Root This week five African-American students at Air Force Academy Prep School in Colorado found the words “Niggers Go Home” scrawled on the dry erase boards outside their dorm rooms. Once the school became aware of the racial graffiti the school superintendent Lt. General Jay Silveria rattled off a statement to the…
What Are Black Journalists Allowed To Say About Race?
Julia Craven, HuffPost Black Voices Jemele Hill said what she said. In a series of tweets stemming from an odd conversation about Kid Rock, the co-host of ESPN’s “SC6” called President Donald Trump a “white supremacist who has largely surrounded himself w/ other white supremacists.” “Trump is the most ignorant, offensive president of my lifetime,” she wrote. “His…
Mich. Teacher Drags Student From Seat After Not Standing For Pledge
Breanna Edwards, The Root Everybody is all about freedom of speech and expression until a black person (hey, Colin Kaepernick; hey, Jemele Hill) decides to exercise his or her right to do so. And in this particular case, a black sixth-grader out of Michigan says he was assaulted by his homeroom teacher all because he…
L’Oréal Fires Its First Trans Model After She Called Out White America’s Racism
By Lilly Workneh, HuffPost Black Voices L’Oréal Paris has fired its first transgender model to join the brand just days after announcing the partnership. L’Oréal released a statement on Twitter Friday morning saying the company “champions diversity” but decided to cut ties with Monroe Bergdorf, saying her comments calling out white America’s racism in a recent Facebook…
Philando Castile’s Legacy Of Helping His Students Pay For Lunch Lives On
Monique Judge, The Root Philando Castile was known as a caring man at the St. Paul, Minn., school where he worked as a cafeteria supervisor. He cared so much for the children he served that he often paid for their lunches out of his own pocket when they were unable to, and now, thanks to…
Under Trump, Justice Department Resumes Fight for White Privilege
Affirmative Action, which benefits the disenfranchised, is again the subject of debate about discrimination against whites.
Blacks underrepresented at top colleges despite affirmative action
Affirmative Action laws haven’t been able to combat enrollment disparities between Black and white college students.
Why Black Women Are — And Should Be — Leading The Fight For $15
Black women have a high stake in the fight for fair wages; they make up a large portion of those working “unskilled” jobs for low wages.
When Jack Daniel’s Failed to Honor a Slave, an Author Rewrote History
The annals of history are never dead and gone, only hidden effectively from the masses. Jack Daniel’s Whiskey Disterilly and its birth, is but one of those hidden facts uncovered for the World to learn of, to see of with one’s own eyes. Finally, the inclusion of the co- owner of the namesake “whiskey,” a man whom was a slave called Nearest Green, has his due in the revision of the history around the brew to include Green whom may also be the actual creator of the innocuous concoction called whiskey.
Help Me Find the Lie: DNC Leader Keith Ellison Calls GOP ‘The Party of Racism’
DNC Leader Kieth Ellison stands by his words. Boldly stating that the Repuplican party is the modern day racist party espousing and supporting racism, subjugation of people’s, lives, poverty, segregation, separation and more. DNC leader voiced these words of truth at the Netroots Nation Cinferance and begs to be contradicted, by asking people to please point out where he has misspoke.
BLM: Charlottesville Is A Confirmation Of The Violence Black People Endure
White supremacists, neo-nazis, and members of the Ku Klux Klan rally together to display their unwavering hate for blacks in Charlottesville, VA and Black Lives Matter responds. Read the article to see how.
Black Unemployment Hits Historic Low. Should Trump Get Credit or Are We Getting Played?
In an economy that currently has the lowest African American unemployment rate since 2000, people are wondering who’s to blame. Most likely, not Trump read the article to find out why.
Woman Who Is Disabled Shocked To Find No Prostheses In Her Skin Tone
By Elyse Wanshel, HuffPost Black Voices A woman in Canada who recently had her left leg amputated is having a difficult time accepting her new body. Rahab Wanjau, 30, was born with a deformity on her left tibia (or shinbone). She told HuffPost that after five painful surgeries, which left her relying on crutches most…
‘Little Miss Flint’ Helps 1,000 Local Students Get New School Supplies
Amariyanna Copeney, also known as “Little Miss Flint”, has started a school supply drive, Pack Your Back, in order to help out kids and families in Michigan struggling to get back on their feet since the city’s lead-in-the-water crisis.
Hey, Jeff Sessions: Remember When 6,000 White Americans Went on Strike to Keep 8 Black People From Getting Promoted?
An American history moment must include the disenfranchisement of African-Americans in terms of securing and sustaining in gainful employment. One such struggle was the 1944 Philadelphia Transit strike, where a mere eight promotions of black employees prompted the white male employees to stage a violent transit strike that resulted in the loss of thousands of soldiers’ lives during WWII. This all in protest against working alongside a few black men.
Don’t Go to Mo.,… NAACP Issues Travel Advisory
African-Americans historically have subjectively lived in a world of racially based insecurities, malignment, threats, and even death throughout the United States. It seems to be “just a way of life,” for African-American peoples, still?Well, in the State of Missouri, there continues to be more of the same racially biased behaviors and attitudes bringing forth renewed restrictions in mobility brought about by new or renewed laws in the state of Missouri. According to the NAACP, Laws remenicent of days of Jim Crow, that dictated where, when, and how African-Americans can travel without threat of harm or death. Therefore, this law now has brought forth an urgency making it necessary to introduce travel codes and awareness methods and measures for the safety of African-Americans traveling within and throughout the State of Missouri.
Amazon Is Developing An Alt-History Show Called ‘Black America’
By Zeba Blay, HuffPost Black Voices Will Packer, the man behind the hit comedy “Girls Trip,” is bringing a new show to Amazon that might give HBO a run for its money. According to the Hollywood Reporter, Packer is teaming up “Boondocks” creator Aaron McGruder on “Black America,” a drama set in an alternate history in…
These Profound Photos Masterfully Turn Racial Stereotypes On Their Head
Photos, taken for “O, The Oprah Winfrey Magazine”, made an attempt to defeat racial stereotypes by reversing them. Take a look at them and the article here.
Inside the New Partnership Between Airbnb and the NAACP
NAACP and Airbnb launch a new collaboration of partnership to bring forth and create an atmosphere of inclusion with the African-American community throughout the United States. This partnership will include greater participation in all aspects from vending and supply services, to increasing the volume of African-American hosts. The efforts also endeavor to rid the Airbnb platform of those hosts that desire to be discriminatory against African-American patronage. Additionally, to assist with aiding African-Americans with keep their homes by educating homeowners how to become an Airbnb host. Enabling many to earn money renting their homes and rooms, helping them to maintain their mortgages.