“Terrorism is terrorism,” Lee said Saturday afternoon just prior to screening his 1997 documentary, “4 Little Girls,” for a standing-room-only audience at the Paramount Theater.
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The Disturbing Story Of The Mokomokai Heads Of The Maori Tribesmen | ATI
Through trading with the tribesmen, General Horatio Gordon Robley collected 35 to 40 mokomokai heads for his collection.
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The History of Russian Involvement in America’s Race Wars | The Atlantic
From propaganda posters to Facebook ads, 80-plus years of Russian meddling.
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Five Arrested in Georgia in ‘Heinous’ 1983 Killing of Black Man | The New York Times
“If the crime happened today, it would be prosecuted as a hate crime…”
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To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee taken off Mississippi school reading list | The Guardian
To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee’s classic novel about racism and the American south, has been removed from a junior-high reading list in a Mississippi school district because the language in the book “makes people uncomfortable”.
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Angela Davis: An Interview on the Futures of Black Radicalism | Verso
“The concept associated with Black Marxism that I find most productive and most potentially transformative is the concept of racial capitalism…. Global capitalism cannot be adequately comprehended if the racial dimension of capitalism is ignored.”
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Fannie Lou Hamer at 100: The Speeches That Made Her a Civil-Rights Icon | Time
As many NFL players across the United States make the decision to kneel or face away from the flag as the National Anthem plays before their games, as part of a protest movement that began as a statement about the belief that the U.S. does not live up to its ideals for African-Americans, many have found new meaning in the words of an icon of an earlier wave of protest.
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I was devastated about Las Vegas — but quietly relieved that the shooter was white | The Washington Post
Minorities in America know that there will be fallout if a killer is black, Hispanic or Muslim.
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Black and Latino representation in Silicon Valley has declined, study shows | The Guardian
New study exposes persistent racial prejudice in tech, suggesting people of color are widely marginalized and denied career opportunities.
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Lorraine and Eugene Williams: A civil rights power couple | The Daily Progress
Lorraine and Eugene Williams, the Charlottesville couple whose civil rights work helped desegregate city schools and whose business focused on fair and affordable housing, are the recipients of the Charlottesville Regional Chamber of Commerce’s 2017 award for diversity.
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