EXCLUSIVE: Heading towards a $20 billion showdown with Comcast at the U.S. Supreme Court this fall in his long running racial discrimination lawsuit against the media giant, Byron Allen today tore into the Brian Roberts-run behemoth and an 11th hour intervention by the Department of Justice. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] “This is historic,” the Entertainment Studios boss […]
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Making American White Again | The New Yorker
The choices made by white men, who are prepared to abandon their humanity out of fear of black men and women, suggest the true horror of lost status.
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The FBI Spends a Lot of Time Spying on Black Americans | The Intercept
THE FBI HAS come under intense criticism after a 2017 leak exposed that its counterterrorism division had invented a new, unfounded domestic terrorism category it called “black identity extremism.” Since then, legislators have pressured the bureau’s leadership to be more transparent about its investigation of black activists, and a number of civil rights groups have […]
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These Moving Photos Show Life in Apartheid-Era South Africa | Global Citizen
Celebrated South African photographer David Goldblatt took up photography in 1948, the same year the all-white National Party came into power and apartheid began in his country. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] Though Goldblatt, pictured above, was just 18 at the time, documenting the impact of apartheid — the government-implemented system of racial segregation in South Africa — […]
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Outrage Grows After Two White Men Physically Attack Black Student At The University Of Arizona | Essence
University of Arizona students are outraged that two White assailants were referred to social justice training after attacking a Black student on campus.
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Ibram X Kendi on why not being racist is not enough | The Guardian
The historian on how he confronted his own racism and the lessons he learned along the way, the far right’s abuse of free speech, and why the rise of the Squad gives him hope
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A white nationalist killed a black coach 20 years ago. The horror changed his friend forever. | Indy Star
INDIANAPOLIS – It’s been 20 years, and Shawn Parrish still doesn’t understand. How could someone kill Ricky Byrdsong? “He was a great man,” Parrish said. “You don’t really think about knowing someone who gets murdered.” It was 4:30 in the morning on July 2, 1999 when Parrish was awakened by a phone call. It was […]
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The Carrot and the Stick: On Colson Whitehead’s “The Nickel Boys” | LA Review of Books
By Art Edwards, LA Review of Books I USED TO THINK novels contained immensities, which came from reading the great works during my college years and the resulting expansion of my mind. I assumed the novels themselves contained huge portions of the world. It took decades for me to understand that novels did not contain the […]
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Ilhan Omar: It Is Not Enough to Condemn Trump’s Racism | The New York Times
The nation’s ideals are under attack, and it is up to all of us to defend them.
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I Wanted to Know What White Men Thought About Their Privilege. So I Asked. | The New York Times Magazine
My college class asks what it means to be white in America — but interrogating that question as a black woman in the real world is much harder to do.
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