It’s time we have a serious conversation about what it means when white people offer disingenuous apologies to Black people they have harmed while expecting absolution and exoneration from those very same people. Last week, news broke that a 79-year-old Trump supporter named John Franklin McGraw, who was seen on video elbowing a young Black anti-Trump […]
A Howard County, Md. high school English teacher came back to the classroom on Tuesday after being on administrative leave following a clearly misguided moment. The unnamed teacher reportedly instructed students to write a “fun” slave song as they learned about Frederick Douglass.
This article was originally posted at Water Cooler Convos and has been reposted with permisson. White people’s shock bores me. It’s that kind of bored that makes me just want to change the channel on whiteness and look for better programming. I’m tired of the stressed out, anxious, hypertensive, frenetic whiteness that has been bubbling […]
This article was originally published on Water Cooler Convos and has been reposted with permission. Last week, I painstakingly sat through an entire interview on The Daily Show between the show’s host Trevor Noah and conservative media darling and Glenn Beck acolyte Tomi Lahren. I wish I hadn’t. Then, a few days later, I watched […]
Proposals are meant to be memorable, joyous occasions. Most people think moonlit dinner, walks in the park or something really sentimental. But, to all of our surprise, there’s apparently someone out there that thinks police and guns drawn instead.Â
Cadillac came under fire after they became the latest company who looked to normalize the “alt-right” [read: Neo-Nazi] movement. The car company primarily saw criticism on social media after a casting call was shared that requested “any and all real alt-right thinkers/believers.”
There’s a common belief that academia is absent of the same racism that can be found in the rest of the world. That comes with the assumption that education is the antithesis of ignorance. But that’s still yet to be proven as the number of hate crimes in the United States has spiked in recent […]
By: Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Among the youngest white adult Americans, feelings of racial and economic vulnerability appear to be closely connected to their support for Donald Trump in last month’s election. That’s according to an analysis of a new GenForward poll of Americans between the ages of 18 and 30. Other surveys of […]
Being “woke” is the modern day version of saying someone’s in tune with the world around them, has their third eye open, or whatever phrase you’d like to use to declare them as someone who “gets it.” Calling someone “woke” is meant to be a compliment, except for when it’s being used ironically – which […]
There’s still no clear chain of responsibility in regards to one of the deadliest fires in Oakland, Ca. As of now, the death toll has reached 36 after a fire broke out at a warehouse this past Friday.Â
Aml Elsokary has been a member of the NYPD for 11 years. But when she was out of uniform with her son in Brooklyn, that didn’t matter as she was threatened on the street. Elsokary had just dropped her son off in Brooklyn on Saturday night when he got into a confrontation with Christopher Nelson, […]
The United Negro Improvement Association. The Congress of Racial Equity. The Southern Christian Leadership Conference. The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. The National Association of Colored Women. The National Association For the Advancement of Colored People. The Black Panther Party. The list of civic organizations that helped shape the course of racial justice in the 20th […]
