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NBA All-Stars Take Stage At ESPYs To Ask For Racial Equality
LeBron James, Dwyane Wade, Chris Paul and Carmelo Anthony are each all-star NBA players and the faces of their respective franchises. – James, for the entire sport. With the knowledge of how much influence they have, the four good friends came together to open the ESPY Awards with a speech about racial injustice and gun violence.
Oakland firefighter says he was racially profiled by police officer
A black Oakland firefighter has filed a complaint with the Oakland Police Department after he and his young sons were detained by a white police officer outside of his job. Veteran firefighter Keith Jones and his sons who are 9 and 12, were walking back to their SUV at Station 29. A fire crew […]
BYP100 Chicago Chapter leads march and demonstration in protest of racially unjust marijuana arrests
Members of BYP100’s Chicago Chapter led a march and demonstration at the Chicago Police Department headquarters on Tuesday. The young Black activists called for an end to racially unjust marijuana arrests.
It’s time to stop profiling LGBT people of color
The following post originally appeared on The Root, and was written by Benjamin Todd Jealous and Andrea Ritchie. The piece’s original title is “It’s Time to End Profiling of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender People of Color.” By: Benjamin Todd Jealous and Andrea Ritchie A few years ago in New York City, a 17-year-old black […]
Black Youth Answer The Question, “Are We Racially Profiled?”
httpv://youtu.be/VI8f5DA1MDo Recently at our 1Hood Media Academy we discussed racial profiling. Not surprisingly, all of our students had experienced it in one way or another. We also talked about why we’re racially profiled, and what Black youth should do about it. Ironically we had this conversation before the high profile incidents of “Shop and Frisk” […]
Famous actors racially profiled, harassed by police
Actors Cherie Johnson and Dennis White say they were improperly stopped by police in Marion County, South Carolina. The former “Family Matters” star and White who was in the film ‘Notorious,’ were vacationing last week when they were harassed by an officer.
Allen West Attacks Obama’s Speech; Says He’s Never Been Racially Profiled
Allen West says he’s never experienced racial profiling because he was a “respectful young man, and maybe that’s something that was missing out of President Obama and Trayvon Martin’s life.”
Trayvon, White Racial Apathy, Subconscious Racism, and the Myth of “Fact”
“I know what the world has done to my brother and how narrowly he has survived it and I know, which is much worse, and this is the crime of which I accuse my country and my countrymen and for which neither I nor time nor history will ever forgive them, that they have destroyed […]
Eating TV Dinners During Racial Zoo-Keeping
On top of America’s legacy of racism there’s nothing more upsetting than the absence of guilt, from the racists of course. Not even the first sentence describes the severity of our situation, especially when there are tv shows, Bait Car for instance, that broadcast the hatred of Black youth. Every time I’ve watched Bait Car, […]
The Profiling of a Prolific Pedagogue
a “prominent black scholar with reams of scholarship on bookshelves” couldn’t be distinguished from “Cousin Pookie.”
Video: Black cyclist “packing” cupcake attacked by police
D’Paris Williams is 21-years-old. He’s employed, attends classes at City Colleges of San Francisco and is interested in photography. On Friday, he became the latest victim of physical assault and racial profiling by police.
Report shows that just 1.5% of NYPD “stop-and-frisks” leads to arrest
Despite several claims of unjust behavior and racial profiling, the NYPD totes their stop-and-frisk program as a necessary and effective way to combat crime in the city. But according to recent report, just 1.5 percent of stop-and-frisks end up resulting in the perpetrator being arrested.