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World War II veteran calls honorable discharge from Army to correct an ‘injustice’ nearly 75 years later ‘a miracle’ | Chicago Tribune
PHILADELPHIA World War II veteran Nelson Henry Jr. never thought he would see the day the Army would correct his discharge nearly 75 years after he was forced to leave the military because of the color of his skin. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] Henry, 95, of Philadelphia, received word Monday from the Army Correction of Military Records […]
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NBCBLK Oregon bill cracks down on racially motivated 911 calls | NBC News
Victims of those police calls would be able to sue the caller for up to $250, under a measure overwhelmingly approved by the state Senate.
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Black, Latino Two-Parent Families Have Half The Wealth Of White Single Parents | NPR
Adrian Florido, NPR A study by the think tank Demos finds that black and Latino families with two parents still own only half as much as wealth as white single parents. David McNew/Getty Images. Featured Image [dropcap]The[/dropcap] racial wealth gap has been measured and studied for decades. One fact has remained the same: White families […]
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Texas Executes White Supremacist for 1998 Dragging Death of James Byrd Jr. | The New York Times
Robert Channick, The New York Times Louvon Harris with a photo of her brother James Byrd Jr., who was murdered by white supremacists in 1998. Credit William Widmer for The New York Time, Featured Image [dropcap]John[/dropcap] William King, 44, convicted two decades ago for killing James Byrd Jr. in an act of unfathomable racist brutality […]
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F.B.I. Was Told That Militia in New Mexico Planned to Kill Obama and Clinton | The New York Times
Simon Romero, The New York Times [dropcap]LAS[/dropcap] CRUCES, N.M. — Before the F.B.I. arrested Larry Hopkins, the leader of the right-wing militia that detained migrant families in the New Mexico desert, he’d had so many run-ins with the law that his police record stretched across much of the United States. Oregon police arrested him in […]
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‘I’m either too black or not black enough’: One teenager’s experience | BBC News
Aries Brown, BBC News Illustration by Debie Loizou. [Reuters], Featured Image [dropcap]This[/dropcap] article was written by Aries Brown, an 18-year-old African-American student at an international school in eastern Europe. It was originally written for her school newspaper, and has been reprinted with her permission, and that of her school. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] Coming here for my […]
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These High School Murals Depict an Ugly History. Should They Go? | The New York Times
Carol Pogash, The New York Times One of the 13 murals that make up “The Life of Washington,” at George Washington High School in San Francisco. Credit Jim Wilson/The New York Times, Featured Image [dropcap]SAN[/dropcap] FRANCISCO — In one of the murals, George Washington points westward over the dead body of a Native American. Another […]
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When Hit Dogs Holler | Medium
Society is noisy right now, which to my ear sounds like the cacophonous wail of hit dogs. How do we deal with folks who don’t want to acknowledge or deal with systemic oppression?
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American Exceptionalism (White Exceptionalism by a nicer name) | Medium
William Spivey, Medium Illustration by Matthieu Bourel, photograph by Edu Bayer for The New York Times, Featured Image [dropcap]American[/dropcap] Exceptionalism has been described by historians since the mid-1800s. Definitions fall basically into three camps. 1. Because of its unique origins, born from revolution, America is unique from all other nations. Never having Kings and Queens […]
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