Tag: race
The Kerner Report at 50: Still separate, more unequal
The injustices remain, and time is not on anyone’s side.
Our racial and ethnic roots in all their tangled diversity are...
Trumpian white supremacy has it all wrong.
Ex-felons could soon get their voting rights back in Florida
Many believe that if this amendment passes, it will reshape "electoral politics" in the swing state.
Would Dr. King take a knee? 6 ways his radical spirit...
Dr. King’s spirit lives on in the new Poor People’s Campaign, and in every place radicals gather to change the world.
Joe Arpaio tells CNN that Obama’s birth certificate was phony and...
CNN let AZ Senate candidate Arpaio have airtime to push false birther claims, but will they give time to Democratic primary candidates?
Martin Luther King Jr.’s Poor People’s Campaign born again
Now, 50 years later, a coalition has formed anew to organize poor people in the U.S. into what King called "a new and unsettling force" to fight poverty and forge meaningful change.
Fox News report on Colorado gunman ignores his white supremacist connections
Gunman who killed a sheriff’s deputy reportedly had social media “filled with the icons of the white supremacist ‘alt-right.’"
Facebook’s secret censorship rules protect white men from hate speech but...
A trove of internal documents sheds light on the algorithms that Facebook’s censors use to differentiate between hate speech and legitimate political expression.
Facebook Lets Advertisers Exclude Users by Race
Facebook’s system allows advertisers to exclude black, Hispanic, and other “ethnic affinities” from seeing ads.
'Another Yale is Possible:' Students Confront Racism at Ivy League School
At Yale University in Connecticut, the "March of Resilience" comes just days after protests at Missouri University caused the system president to step down. Thousands of students held a march over racism on Ivy League school's campus.