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Saraneka Martin, The Pregnant Woman Who Was Shot In The Stomach While Peacefully Protesting Shares What Happened And Shows The Wounds She Received Terrorist Cops | Black Sports Online

June 11, 2020June 11, 2020KOLUMN Magazine

By Daniel Bell, Black Sports Online The murder of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor have seemed to be the tipping point for many people and it’s completely understandable after police keep murdering black people. Not only have their deaths caused protest all around America, but also all around the world. However, for some reason, when […]

Recalling an Era When the Color of Your Skin Meant You Paid to Vote | Smithsonian Magazine (2016)

June 11, 2020June 11, 2020KOLUMN Magazine

Celebrating the 50th anniversary of a ruling that made the poll tax unconstitutional By Allison Keyes, Smithsonian Magazine In January 1955 in Hardin County, Texas, Leo Carr had to pay $1.50 to vote. That receipt for Carr’s “poll tax” now resides in the collections of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture. In today’s dollars, […]

People Keep Driving Into Protesters During The George Floyd Demonstrations Across The United States | BuzzFeed

June 9, 2020June 9, 2020KOLUMN Magazine

With the nation’s streets becoming contested political spaces, cars have been turned into weapons — something the far right has joked about for years. The video is shocking. As the driver of an SUV swerves through an empty pocket of protesters on the streets of San Jose on Friday night, the passenger gestures out of […]

Who people believe rules in heaven influences their beliefs about who rules on Earth, Stanford scholars find | Stanford, News

February 9, 2020February 9, 2020African American Faith, Racism ...

How people visualize God can have real consequences to life on Earth, Stanford research has found. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] The researchers, led by Stanford psychologist Steven O. Roberts, conducted a series of studies with U.S. Christians and found that when people conceptualize God as a white man, they are more likely to perceive white male job […]

Rush Limbaugh Seizes a Chance to Violate the N-Word Taboo (2013) | The Atlantic

February 5, 2020February 5, 2020Racism

The talk-radio host exploits the racial anxieties of Americans to be provocative, and reaps the rewards even when criticized. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] Over the years, Rush Limbaugh has raised his profile by deliberately violating various taboos. This excites his fans, who process transgressiveness as bravery, especially if it angers the left. It garners attention from Limbaugh’s […]

African American Miniature Museum Founder and Artist Karen Collins Has”Greensboro Four” Piece Highlighted by Google to Kick off Black History Month | Good Black News

February 2, 2020February 2, 2020African American Art

Sixty years ago, four African American college students sat down quietly at a whites-only Woolworth’s lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] They received no service, only requests to leave, but they kept waiting for hours. And the next day, they returned and waited again. Within three days of their protest, more than 300 […]

A look at the Casual Killing Act of 1669 that made it legal to kill a slave at will | Face2Face Africa

February 2, 2020February 2, 2020Slavery

What escapes many people is that the whimsical killing of enslaved Blacks in the U.S. during slavery, and even after by white folks without punitive consequence is based on laws passed by white politicians, who happened to be plantation owners as well. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] One such devious law is the Casual Killing Act of 1669 […]

Color of Hockey: Canada Post stamp celebrates Black History Month | NHL.com

January 30, 2020January 30, 2020KOLUMN Magazine

Pays tribute to nearly forgotten early 20th-century players, league in Maritimes [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] William Douglas has been writing The Color of Hockey blog for the past eight years. Douglas joined NHL.com in March 2019 and writes about people of color in the game. Today, he writes about Canada Post’s 2020 Black History Month stamp that […]

Did Dershowitz Say He Was ‘Not Happy Seeing Nixon’s Gang Being Tried by Blacks and Liberals’? | Snopes

January 30, 2020January 30, 2020Racism

Searching the long quote trails of public figures often turns up interesting statements from days past. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] In mid-January 2020, U.S. President Donald Trump announced that Harvard Law professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz would be part of his legal defense team for his upcoming Senate impeachment trial. Shortly afterwards, a quote meme made the rounds […]

Remembering the 1968 Orangeburg Massacre When Police Shot Dead Three Unarmed Black Students | Democracy Now

January 21, 2020January 21, 2020African American History, Racism

The 1968 Orangeburg massacre is one of the most violent and least remembered events of the civil rights movement. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] A crowd of students gathered on the campus of South Carolina State University to protest segregation at Orangeburg’s only bowling alley. After days of escalating tensions, students started a bonfire and held a vigil […]