Posts Tagged ‘Racism’
Special News Series: Rising Up For Justice! – Africa Declares Black Lives Matter
The global uprising against racist police brutality that ignited in the United States has spread to the Blackest continent of all, showing that the aftershocks of class struggle in imperialist countries are often felt in the regions they historically exploit and oppress.
Read MoreWhy I don’t feel safe wearing a face mask
Black men are feeling conflicted about wearing masks in the time of COVID-19. Wear a mask and risk being mistaken for a thief and possibly killed. Not wearing a mask and risk contracting and dying from the virus.
Read MoreWhy black athletes run from black identity
Black athletes who speak out about racial inequities are often viewed as trouble makers and risk losing their careers and livelihoods.
Read MoreEarly Novel Written By Free Black Woman Called Out Racism Among Abolitionists
My Nig tells another side of the enslaved story. The book relates the same torture and inhumane conditions as in the south but added the silence of the Abolitionists in Milford, New Hampshire.
Read MoreWhat’s Lost When Black Children Are Socialized Into a White World
Black student disciplinary actions and suspensions for age appropriate behavior can be a problem in schools where “obedience and hierarchy” are valued and enforced.
Read MoreBlack No More?
Are descendants of slaves in America allowed to “construct our their identity” or at the fate of white supremacy? Can we unlearn “Race?” Thomas Chatterston Williams says we should be about doing just that! Unlearning race.
Read MoreBiological Weathering and Its Deadly Effect on Black Mothers
Racism is found to be a major factor in the high death rates and instances of chronic diseases in the Black community. This racism, in the form of Biological Weathering, can also have “deadly” effects on mothers before, during and after childbirth.
Read MoreMy father was IBM’s first black software engineer. The racism he fought persists in the high-tech world today
Stanley W Ford was hired in 1946 as a software engineer at IBM. When his son Clyde followed in his footsteps more than twenty years later, the same mentality that had supported “eugenics, Nazism and apartheid”was
and still is prevalent in the high field today.
Fighting Racism…Especially Where We Don’t Realize It Exists
In his new book, award-winning author Ibram X. Kendi “pushes those of us who believe we are not racists to become something else: antiracists, who support ideas and policies affirming that “the racial groups are equals in all their apparent differences — that there is nothing right or wrong with any racial group.” A book review by historian Jeffrey C, Stewart.
Read MoreDesigning Their Own Black Future
Black students in White town are not waiting for the adults to lead them into a new future. They are designing their own.
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