Category: KOLUMN Magazine

— EJI Staff , EJI, Equal Justice Initiative On September 24th, 1964, a decade after Brown v Board of Education ruled that schools must be racially integrated, a crowd of at least 7,500 demonstrators, almost all of whom were white, marched outside New York City Hall to protest a policy aimed at increasing racial integration in the city’s […]

— Clint Smith, The Atlantic Last week, at the White House Conference on American History, President Donald Trump denounced the way “the left has warped, distorted, and defiled the American story with deceptions, falsehoods, and lies,” attacking Howard Zinn, critical race theory, and The New York Times’ 1619 Project (to which I was a contributor). […]

— ALAN GREENBLATT, NPR People aren’t exempted from new regulations because they’re old and crotchety, even if that’s what it sounds like when we say they’re “grandfathered in.” The term “grandfathered” has become part of the language. It’s an easy way to describe individuals or companies who get to keep operating under an existing set […]

The show, called ‘Critter Fixers: Country Vets,’ was just given a better time slot on the network — Nancy Clanton, AJC.com “Critter Fixers: Country Vets” has a premiere date. The show, which will star Drs. Vernard Hodges and Terrence Ferguson, will air March 7 on Nat Geo Wild. The network originally announced “Critter Fixers” would premiere Feb. […]

— KATHERINE FUNG, Newsweek For 60 nights, Anthony Herron, also known as F.L.O.W., has watched over a stranger’s house in Long Island. Since he’s started camping out, Jennifer McLeggan, the homeowner, said he has become like family to her and her two-year-old daughter. “We kind of treat F.L.O.W. like he’s just a part of the […]

— KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press, Black News Channel ATLANTA (AP) — Twice delayed because of the coronavirus pandemic, Georgia’s primary election earlier this year was marred by dysfunction: Hourslong wait times at polling places. Absentee ballots that never arrived. Votes cast after midnight. The problems were most acute in Fulton County, which includes most of […]

He won the award for his work on Dave Chappelle’s 2019 stand up comedy show “Sticks & Stones. — Brooklyn White, Essence On September 20, actress Sanaa Lathan took to Twitter to congratulate her father, television and film director Stan Lathan, on his first Emmy. He won the award for his work on Dave Chappelle’s […]

“I can tell you that Puerto Rico’s recovery, if it can be called that, didn’t come thanks to the government,” said a community social worker on the island. — Nicole Acevedo, NBC News Angel Perez was on his way to visit his parents in his native Arecibo, a coastal town about an hour west of […]

— Seth Cohen, Forbes On Thursday, President Trump gave a provocative speech about the teaching of American history, slamming the prize-winning 1619 Project and promoting a new strategy of “patriot education.” Trump’s comments criticizing academic freedom and painting a white-washed version of American history beg the question: What’s really behind the Trump administration’s attacks on […]