Category: Racism

The Covid-19 infodemic taught social media giants like YouTube and Reddit an important lesson: They can—and must—take action to control the content on their sites. By Joan Donovan, Wired FOR THOSE WHO follow the politics of platforms, Monday’s great expulsion of malicious content creators was better late than never. For far too long, a very small contingent of […]

By EJI Staff, Equal Justice Initiative Early on the morning of Sunday, June 29, 1958, a bomb exploded outside Bethel Street Baptist Church on the north side of Birmingham, Alabama, in one of the segregated city’s African American neighborhoods. The church’s pastor, Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth, was a civil rights activist working to eliminate segregation in Birmingham. Bethel […]

By Victoria Moorwood , Revolt The four assailants also called Althea Bernstein a racial slur. On Wednesday (June 24), a Black woman in Madison, Wisconsin reportedly suffered third-degree burns after four white men threw lighter fluid and a lighter at her face while she was in her car. Speaking with Madison 365, 18-year-old EMT Althea Bernstein said the assailants yelled a […]

A second faculty member at the University of Louisiana Monroe has been accused this week of making racist statements online.  The News-Star confirmed Sunday that ULM administrators are aware of and investigating a screen capture that began circulating over the weekend. ULM does not verify the subject of personnel investigations. Assistant professor posts derogatory comment on […]

Award-winning director Ava DuVernay is turning her powerful productions into a resource for classrooms and independent study. On Thursday, she is launching a new initiative called ARRAY 101. It will offer free learning guides for students to accompany TV and film productions. The first one is for her mini-series, “When They See Us,” a four-part drama about the […]

Mascots from the Jim Crow era are alive and well Dairy brand Land O’Lakes is hardly alone in using a cultural stereotype as a mascot for generations—and it’s also not alone in its reluctance to speak publicly about it. Take, for example, Miss Chiquita, which became the face of the banana brand in 1944 and was transformed into a […]

On May 3, 1913, California enacted the Alien Land Law, barring Asian immigrants from owning land. California tightened the law further in 1920 and 1923, barring the leasing of land and land ownership by American-born children of Asian immigrant parents or by corporations controlled by Asian immigrants. These laws were supported by the California press, […]