Racism - KOLUMN Magazine

‘Still fighting’: Africatown, site of last US slave shipment, sues over pollution | The Guardian

January 29, 2018February 5, 2018African American Commuities, African American History ...

In 1860 the last, illegal, shipment of slaves to the US landed in this part of Alabama. Now hundreds of the largely African American residents are suing an industrial plant claiming it released toxic chemicals linked to cancer

Black Student Power in Boston | The Weekly Challenger

January 16, 2018January 26, 2018African American Education, African American History ...

The story of the “Boston busing crisis” of the 1970s dominates popular and academic accounts of Boston’s civil rights movement.

Ibram Kendi, one of the nation’s leading scholars of racism, says education and love are not the answer | The Undefeated

January 16, 2018January 26, 2018African American Education, Civil Rights ...

Founder of new anti-racism center at American University sees impact of policy, culture on black athletes.

Martin Luther King Jr.’s scorn for ‘white moderates’ in his Birmingham jail letter | The Washington Post

January 15, 2018January 17, 2022Affirmative Action, African American Activist ...

The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. began writing the “Letter From a Birmingham Jail” in the margins of newspapers, on scraps of paper, paper towels and slips of yellow legal paper smuggled into his cell, where he was kept in solitary confinement after being arrested April 12, 1963, on charges of violating Alabama’s law against mass public demonstrations.

Bessie Rogers and Taylor Rogers | StoryCorps

January 15, 2018January 26, 2018African American Activist, African American History ...

Retired Memphis, Tennessee sanitation worker Taylor Rodgers and his wife, Bessie, were at the Mason Temple on April 3, 1968 when Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his famous speech “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop”.

Does the White Working Class Really Vote Against Its Own Interests? | Politico

January 11, 2018African American Economics, African American Politics ...

Trump’s first year in office revived an age-old debate about why some people choose race over class—and how far they will go to protect the system.

Activist DeRay Mckesson sues Fox News, media personality Jeanine Pirro for defamation | The Baltimore Sun

December 26, 2017December 26, 2017African American Activist, Black Lives Matter ...

Civil rights activist DeRay Mckesson has sued Fox News and media personality Jeanine Pirro, alleging she defamed him while discussing a lawsuit brought against the Black Lives Matter movement.

Mississippi’s bold new Civil Rights Museum offers unflinching view of US history | The Guardian

November 27, 2017African American Families, African American History ...

Jackson’s new Civil Rights Museum and its neighbour, the Museum of Mississippi History, have a joint launch on 9 December, in advance of a year of events across the south marking 50 years since Martin Luther King Jr’s assassination.

The Thibodaux Massacre Left 60 African-Americans Dead and Spelled the End of Unionized Farm Labor in the South for Decades | Smithsonian

November 24, 2017African American History, Black History ...

In 1887, African-American cane workers in Louisiana attempted to organize—and many paid with their lives.

Zinzi Clemmons: ‘It’s Time For Women of Color…to Divest From Lena Dunham’ | Jezebel

November 21, 2017November 21, 2017African American Literature, African American Lives ...

Writer Zinzi Clemmons, author of What We Lose, has announced that she will no longer be writing for Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner’s online feminist weekly newsletter Lenny Letter because, she says, of Dunham and her friends’ racism which was “well-known” prior to their fame. “She cannot have our words if she cannot respect us,” she writes.