The lynching and torture of blacks in the Jim Crow South weren’t just acts of racism. They were religious rituals. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] The cliché is that Americans have a short memory, but since Saturday, a number of us have been arguing over medieval religious wars and whether they have any lessons for today’s violence in […]
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When White Supremacists Overthrew an Elected Government | The New York Times
Wilmington’s Lie The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy By David Zucchino Today we Americans find ourselves struggling with the ghosts of our past. Some among us reach for histories that affirm the established view of who we are as a nation. Many believe the United States is, and must always […]
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Regina King on fighting white supremacists in Watchmen: ‘My community is living this story’ | The Guardian
The Oscar-winner is playing a cape-swishing superhero in HBO’s revamp of the epic comic book. She talks wage gaps, wardrobe woes and her dreams of becoming a dentist. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] Regina King had a hard time convincing some of her friends about Watchmen, her new HBO series inspired by the DC comic book of the […]
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The Privilege of White Victimhood | Dame Magazine
We’re in the grips of a peak white-pity party moment. And it has the potential to incite a riot. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] Being an actual victim of anything sucks. This is a thing we are supposed to learn as we grow up. We’re supposed to grow out of the phase where we get jealous of the […]
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White people assume niceness is the answer to racial inequality. It’s not | The Guardian
“While most of us see ourselves as ‘not racist’, we continue to reproduce racist outcomes and live segregated lives.” [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] I am white. As an academic, consultant and writer on white racial identity and race relations, I speak daily with other white people about the meaning of race in our lives. These conversations are […]
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The Norfolk 17 face a hostile reception as schools reopen | The Virginian-Pilot
Three weeks later than originally scheduled, Norfolk schools were finally ready to open. Well, most of them. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] On Sept. 29, 1958, 48 of Norfolk’s schools welcomed students – but the doors of six were padlocked and under police guard. Maury, Norview and Granby high schools and Northside, Norview and Blair junior highs remained […]
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When Nat King Cole moved in | Curbed, Los Angeles
The entertainer found his dream home in picturesque Hancock Park—but the neighborhood had a dark side. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] In July 1948, singer Nat “King” Cole and his new wife, Maria, were just beginning their lives together. The legendary crooner of standards including “The Christmas Song,” “Nature Boy,” “Mona Lisa,” and “Unforgettable” had spent the last […]
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Facial recognition fails on race, government study says | BBC News
A US government study suggests facial recognition algorithms are far less accurate at identifying African-American and Asian faces compared to Caucasian faces. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] African-American females were even more likely to be misidentified, it indicated. It throws fresh doubt on whether such technology should be used by law enforcement agencies. One critic called the results […]
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College Football Doesn’t Give Black Coaches Many Chances | Five Thirty Eight
Where Willie Taggart goes, so goes history. The 43-year-old — whose parents worked in migrant fields — landed head-coaching gigs at Oregon and Florida State, two of the most coveted jobs in college football, at a relatively young age. At each of his four stops as a head coach,1 Taggart was the first African American […]
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The Myth Was $150,000 in Fraud. The Real Story Is More Interesting. | The New York Times
The woman behind a pernicious and racist myth didn’t represent anyone or anything but her own striking criminal enterprise.
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