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How white entitlement marred my trip to a Ferguson teach-in
The following piece is from Salon. It was written by Brittney Cooper. By: Brittney Cooper On Friday, I was on the train to New York to do a teach-in on Ferguson at NYU. Beats headphones on, lost in thought, peering out the window, I suddenly saw a white hand shoving my work carry-on […]
Alia Atkinson becomes first black woman to win world title in swimming
Alia Atkinson made history last weekend by becoming the first black woman to win a world swimming title. Atkinson took home the trophy for the women’s 100 breasstroke at the world short-course championships in Doha, Qatar on Saturday.
Eric Garner Said ‘I Can’t Breathe’ 11 Times — Now Activists Are Making 11 Demands In His Name
The following piece is from Huffington Post. It was written by Christopher Mathias. By: Christopher Mathias It’s been more than a week since a Staten Island grand jury decided not to indict a New York City police officer in the death of Eric Garner, and protesters have taken to the streets each night since then, […]
Bill Cosby Drugged Me. This Is My Story.
The following piece is from Vanity Fair. It was written by Beverly Johnson. By: Beverly Johnson Like most Americans, I spent the 60s, 70s, and part of the 80s in awe of Bill Cosby and his total domination of popular culture. He was the first African American to star in a dramatic television series, I Spy, […]
Georgetown’s Men’s basketball team dons ‘I Can’t Breathe’ t-shirts
Georgetown University’s Men’s basketball team became the latest set of athletes to outwardly condemn a grand jury’s decision not to indict an NYPD officer who fatally choked a 43-year-old man. Few words had to be said by team members, because the words on their warm-up shirts spoke volumes.
Medical school students hold ‘die-in’ to shed light on biases in health care
Medical students from more than 70 U.S. schools organized a die-in Wednesday in support of the nationwide protests condemning a grand jury’s decision not to indict a white police officer who killed an unarmed black teen in Ferguson, Missouri. Participants say the same structural racial that is present in police brutality against blacks manifests itself in […]
Ferguson protesters named as runner-up for TIME’s ‘Person of the Year’ award
The following piece is from TIME. It was written by Alex Altman. By: Alex Altman At the beginning, they just wanted to pay tribute. Neighbors stood on cracked sidewalks behind yellow police tape, watching the dead teen’s body bake for hours in the summer heat. They tried to scrub his blood from the […]
Unarmed People of Color Killed by Police, 1999-2014
The following piece is from Gawker. It was written by Rich Juzwiak and Aleksander Chan. By: Rich Juzwiak and Aleksander Chan On Wednesday, after the announcement that NYPD Officer Daniel Pantaleo would not be indicted for killing Eric Garner, the NAACP’s Legal Defense Fund Twitter posted a series of tweets naming 76 men and women who […]
(Video) SNL’s Ferguson sketch: did they go too far?
An edgy sketch about Ferguson and race relations in the country that didn’t make the cut for this past weekend’s episode of Saturday Night Live was posted online Sunday. And folks are wondering if the crew went too far.
White America’s scary delusion: Why its sense of black humanity is so skewed
The following piece is from Salon. It was written by Brittney Cooper. By: Brittney Cooper The failure of a St. Louis county grand jury to indict Darren Wilson, the former police officer who killed Michael Brown, created a maelstrom of protests last week.
Attorney General Eric Holder to Cleveland Police Department: ‘You’re reckless and poorly trained’
The U.S. Justice Department and Cleveland reached an agreement to overhaul the city’s police department after federal investigators concluded that officers use excessive and unnecessary force far too often. The Justice Department said the police department have endangered the public and their fellow officers with their recklessness.
Let’s talk about ‘black on black’ crime
The following piece is from The Courier-Journal. It was written by Leonard Pitts. By: Leonard Pitts OK, fine. Let’s talk about “black on black” crime. That, after all, is where the conversation seems to inevitably turn whenever one seeks to engage a conservative on the American habit of shooting unarmed African-American boys and […]