Dr. Horne holds the Moores Professorship of History and African American Studies. His research has addressed issues of racism in a variety of relations involving labor, politics, civil rights, international relations, & war. He has ...
Richard Rothstein is the author of The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America. Find out more about the New Movement to Redress Racial Segregation here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdNIs0hXRs1h2j03pNKvlu7QDpnyeNestA5llKSV1KpOgutFw/viewform
After neo-Nazis marched in Charlottesville, Virginia, and then President Donald Trump responded by saying there were “good people on both sides,” people who abhor white supremacism stood up, took notice, and condemned the marchers. Anti-racists ...
The cops and the district attorneys want people to see what we are going through — the conditions of our arrests, our experiences in jail, and our legal battle — and to think that this ...
On August 12, 2017, Heather Heyer was murdered in Charlottesville, Virginia by a white supremacist who drove a vehicle into a crowd of counter-protestors during the infamous Unite the Right rally. The Vice documentary Race and ...
The BBC unveiled the first trailer for Steve McQueen’s “Mangrove” — on the eve of the 50th anniversary of London’s Mangrove protest, when black people demonstrated against police harassment. On August 9, 1970, 150 protesters ...
“Reparations have been paid out to several groups in the United States in the past so it’s not something that’s unheard of and it’s definitely not something that’s a radical idea.” Many Americans are dismissive ...
A University of Southern California exhibit dedicated to John Wayne will be removed from their School of Cinematic Arts, following a student-led protest against the actor’s history of racism and homophobia. After the death of ...
Change seems to be coming from multiple directions, both outside and within the corridors of political and economic power, as our ignorance shatters and we wake up. Topple a few statues, remove some iconic names ...
How ECON 100 obscures the relationships among capitalism, racism and racial inequality. Racial inequality is a glaring, enduring and essential fact about the US economy. But remarkably, mainstream economics (that is, the ECON learned by most ...
The number of known cases in the facilities has doubled since mid-May to over 68,000. (By: Jessica Corbett, Common Dreams) After months of warnings that the coronavirus pandemic has turned U.S. detention facilities into “ticking ...
CNN partnered with “Sesame Street” for a special town hall about racism, giving both kids and parents an opportunity to explore the current debate on inequality and how it affects everyone in society. This is ...
“There’s children of all ages and older adults here. They are going to experience what we have experienced and we have to try to make that not happen.” (By: Jake Johnson, Common Dreams) After the ...
We need the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee to be better than Trump. But we also need him to be better than himself. Dear Mr. Vice President Joe Biden, You showed up in public on Memorial ...
“I thank God people are in the streets,” said the Harvard philosopher and activist. “Can you imagine this kind of lynching taking place and people are indifferent? People don’t care? People are callous?” (By: Jon ...
While serving as Minnesota’s chief prosecutor between 1999 and 2007, Klobuchar declined to bring charges against more than two dozen officers who had killed citizens while on duty – including against the cop that killed George ...
“The reason that there has not been an indictment, in my opinion, is because these men were white, these men have strong law enforcement ties,” said a lawyer for the victim’s family. (By: Julia Conley, ...
“95% of your murders…fit one M.O. You can just take the description, Xerox it and pass it out to all the cops. They are male, minorities, sixteen to twenty-five… that’s true in virtually every city,” ...
“We’re particularly focused on domestic terrorism, especially racially or ethnically motivated violent extremists. Not only is the terror threat diverse, it’s unrelenting.” The FBI has raised the threat level of white nationalism, Director Christopher Wray ...
“Those of you calling for Stephen Miller to be fired by the White House because he has been revealed (again) to be a white supremacist do not understand that’s the reason why he was hired.” ...
How much does your city make from traffic tickets and other fines? (By Akheil Singla, The Conversation) I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the last time I got a speeding ticket. It was nearly ...
In our hyperpartisan and polarized country, ‘Why We Hate’ is a must-watch for every American. A new documentary series titled “Why We Hate” premiered Sunday on the Discovery Channel and explores “one of humanity’s most ...
“This message is not about policy or political parties. It is about human decency and care. We are asking people to sign on to love – and it is working.” In support of the Latinx ...
Simmering racial and cultural tensions in the U.S. have played out in the debate over the legacy of Confederate monuments across the country, but have any statues been removed? According to the latest Southern Poverty ...
“Some of Reagan’s most divisive policies—like embracing the apartheid government of South Africa and inventing the trope of the ‘welfare queen’—may take on a different light now.” The National Archives released a previously withheld recording ...
“We have experimented educationally on children who are poor, who are of color, who go to underfunded schools. We come up with ways of teaching them that are experiments and have absolutely no kind of ...
This is the third part, in a three-part series on the Roma people in Europe. Roma, who are commonly referred to as “gypsies” though the term is often considered derogatory, face widespread and often state-sanctioned ...
“You don’t get to knock my child down and silence that voice without 500 more raising up. Knowing that he won’t be out again to cause more harm to more people helps.” On Friday, a ...
This is the second part, in a three-part series on the Roma people in Europe. Roma, who are commonly referred to as “gypsies” though the term is often considered derogatory, face widespread and often state-sanctioned ...
Novelist Nicholas Sparks is accused of “routinely attributing” the absence of any African American students at a school he founded to the fact that “black students are too poor and can’t do the academic work.” ...
Policing in southern slave-holding states had roots in slave patrols, squadrons made up of white volunteers empowered to use vigilante tactics to enforce laws related to slavery. (By Connie Hassett-Walker, The Conversation) Outrage over racial ...
The recent college admissions scandal shines a light on the dark underside of the U.S.’ education system and the many widespread educational advantages affluent Americans benefit from —all while the less-advantaged struggle for a decent ...
“We were not chosen for this act of violence because we condone racism, because we are enclave for extremism. We were chosen for the fact that we are none of these things. It was because ...
In today’s world, we can’t pretend racism doesn’t exist anymore. There has been a lot of racism in the news recently and it got me looking internally about my perspective on it. It is important ...
A white man was convicted on the rare charge of murder as terrorism for killing an elderly black man in hopes of inciting a race war. A white supremacist and former Army veteran from Baltimore ...
Stan Lee’s words about racism 50 years ago still reverberate today and have gone viral in the wake of his death as fans honor him. After Marvel Comics founder Stan Lee’s death Nov. 12, a column ...
Niecy Nash teams up with the New York Times to battle racism in their new infomercial directed to individuals who unjustifiably call the cops on innocent black bystanders. Comedian Niecy Nash is using humor to ...
Charlie Kirk claimed Turning Point is “funded by the grassroots of this country” but is that accurate? Charlie Kirk founder of the controversial Turning Point USA got a little-heated yesterday during his debate with Hasan ...
Is doxxing a new viable way to combat “hate” or is it the internet weaponized in a new dangerous form? Recently the Philadelphia Antifa chapter began a doxxing campaign attempting to expose fascists and skinheads ...
It is no longer only Confederate monuments and names of schools that are considering name changes in order to be more racially sensitive and appease the calls that they are an homage to racism. Now ...
(MPN.com, by Whitney Webb) MEMPHIS – Several African-American farmers from Memphis, Tennessee are suing a seed company they claim intentionally sold them defective soybean seeds in a bid to put them out of business. According ...
Better ingredients, better pizza, more racism? Outrage erupted on Twitter, Facebook and around the nation as it was discovered that John Schnatter, the founder of Papa John’s, one of America’s top pizza chains, had used ...
Many Americans support stricter regulations with regard to gun ownership, but what if the issue is not as simple as some may think? What if guns were thought of as a tool for empowerment ...
CHECK OUT THIS RESISTANCE PODCAST! Listen⇒KVoice of Resistance In this episode of KVoice of Resistance, we cover a boatload of news you are not hearing beneath the noise and chaos of the White House. We ...
“Kanye West On Red-Pill Rampage,” read the first half of ZeroHedge’s Monday headline on Kanye’s recent twitterstorm endorsing Candace Owens and referencing Scott Adams. The Left is melting down over this pop culture icon becoming, ...
Quincy Jones interview: “We’re the worst we’ve ever been, but that’s why we’re seeing people try and fix it.” Music industry legend Quincy Jones recently sat for an interview with Vulture, the culture and entertainment ...
CHECK OUT THIS RESISTANCE PODCAST Listen⇒KVoice of Resistance A brand new episode of your Resistance podcast is available for download! On this episode, we are barreling toward yet another government shutdown! Will the Democrats hold ...
Given South Africa’s history of problematic racial relations, detractors of H&M South Africa believe the ad displayed insensitivity, disrespect for black Africans and even blatant racism. Popular Swedish clothing retail store H &M came under ...
“Why are we having all these people from shithole countries come here?” These are words allegedly uttered by Donald Trump, president of the United States and arguably the world’s most powerful man. And the world ...
An increasingly organized Antifa movement is on the rise. (Reveal News, By Will Carless) The Signal messages appear in staccato bursts: “We all in blac bloc bout to join.” “We in the streets.” Looking up ...