Posts Tagged ‘Racism’
Racist emails show Chicago official joked about “safari tour” to see violence in black neighborhoods
The prevalence of racism as an imbedded culture in the workplace, continues to rear its ugly head in Chicago’s Water Department. Using company computers for personal expenditures and defamatory, derogatory, and insensitive emails is now a subject of investigation of staff of the Chicago water department.
Read MoreWhen Cops Kill Black People: America’s Two Realities and Why Jurors Can’t Believe Their Lying Eyes
Imagine living in a “Tale of Two Cities,” where perceptions continue to support the rule of the day as it plays out on the World Stage of life for people of color? Places where slaughter and injustice against, and done unto black and brown bodies are authorized and condoned, even and especially by the laws that supposedly govern all equally. All in the name of protecting and preserving white fragility, white perceived way of life and the egregious greed that is ultimately stolen as rights of another.
Read MoreWhat Being Black In America Feels Like For Jay-Z, Kendrick Lamar, Mahershala Ali And Others
4:44, Jay-Z’s most recent album explored the idea of race and success and he got some other hip-hop artists to speak their mind on the topic as well.
Read MoreFighting for Black Lives in Colombia: At War’s End, the Search for a Seat at the Table
Racism in America has been the forefront of many conversations and social media outlets, but that is not the case in Colombia although blacks there experience it everyday. Well, they are taking a stance and letting the world know that black lives in Colombia matter too.
Read MoreTeens Plaster Vandalized Emmett Till Marker With Words Of Hope
By Elyse Wanshel, HuffPost Black Voices A civil rights landmark in Mississippi that commemorates the death of Emmett Till has been vandalized, The Associated Press reported Monday. The sign, which has been defaced before, was scraped so badly that information and photos about Till’s brutal death have been obliterated. Students from Cultural Leadership, a St. Louis-based nonprofit that…
Read MoreSacrificing Black Lives for the American Lie
Why are police officers rarely charged for taking black lives, and when they are, why do juries rarely convict?
Many Americans asked this question when a Minnesota jury decided that Philando Castile was responsible for his own death and that the officer who shot him, did nothing wrong.
Read MoreWhere Are the Police? Another Noose Found on National Mall
By: Angela Helm, theroot.com Surely, with all of the camera surveillance as well as several branches of police (federal, local, military, etc.) patrolling one of the most tourist-laden places in these United States, one would think that there would be an arrest or some movement in this noose-hanging frenzy going on all over the National Mall….…
Read MoreBlack hair restrictions in schools are a return to the Black Codes
A reflection on all of the Black children who, over the course of the past semester, have been punished, disciplined or otherwise called out and singled out for wearing braids, locks, natural hair or any other culturally expressive hairstyle.
Read MoreAfro-Feminist Festival Calls Out Mayor For Accusing Them Of Racism
By: Zahara Hill, HuffPost Black Voices Zahara Hill reports backlash of a black feminist event— the Nyansapo Festival— scheduled to commence July 28 in Paris by the city’s mayor, Anne Hidalgo. Organized by the Mwasi Collective, the festival was “to be a safe space for black feminists to curate sociopolitical strategies to overcome marginalization and…
Read MoreMississippi Cops Engage In ‘Systematic Targeting Of Black Residents,’ Lawsuit Alleges
The American Civil Liberties Union has filed a federal lawsuit against Madison County, MS citing brutal treatments and unconstitutional searches on black residents.
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