A city in Illinois has announced it will create a reparations fund for its African American community through a new tax on marijuana sales. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] Recreational use of the drug will become legal in the state from January and officials in Evanston, which is 12 miles north of Chicago, have voted to approve a […]
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The strange world of Black Voices for Trump | The Guardian
The president only won a paltry 8% of the black vote in 2016, but the organisation has powerful friends – so who are the people on its advisory board?
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The Racism Right Before Our Eyes | The New York Times
There is implicit bias — and then there is behavior like this.
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Stephen Miller is no outlier. White supremacy rules the Republican party | The Guardian
Republican voters made Trump the white-supremacist-in-chief. That’s why a resignation from Miller wouldn’t change much
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Hue Jackson to lead Colin Kaepernick workout; 13 NFL teams have committed to attend | ESPN
Former NFL head coach Hue Jackson will lead the drills during quarterback Colin Kaepernick‘s scheduled workout in Atlanta on Saturday, and former NFL head coach Joe Philbin will be in attendance to assist, the league announced Thursday. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] The NFL said 11 teams have committed to attend: the Arizona Cardinals, Atlanta Falcons, Cleveland Browns, […]
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The Ghosts of Elaine, Arkansas, 1919 | NY Books
In America’s bloody history of racial violence, the little-known Elaine Massacre in Phillips County, Arkansas, which took place in October 1919, a century ago this week, may rank as the deadliest. The reasons why the event has remained shrouded and obscure, despite a shocking toll of bloodshed inflicted on the African-American inhabitants of Phillips County, […]
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It took 10 minutes to convict 14-year-old George Stinney Jr. It took 70 years after his execution to exonerate him. | The Washington Post
By Lindsey Bever, The Washington Post In March 1944, deep in the Jim Crow South, police came for 14-year-old George Stinney Jr. His parents weren’t at home. His little sister was hiding in the family’s chicken coop behind the house in Alcolu, a segregated mill town in South Carolina, while officers handcuffed George and his […]
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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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The Woman Who Beat The Klan | The New York Times
By Jesse Kornbluth, The New York Times About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996. To preserve these articles as they originally appeared, The Times does not alter, edit or update them. Occasionally the digitization process introduces transcription errors or […]
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Trump Fuels Racial Disharmony. Will It Motivate or Discourage Black Voters? | The New York Times
Reid J. Epstein, Jonathan Martin, The New York Times President Trump’s re-election campaign is spending money on social media to push his message to black voters like Mark Greer, a Detroit native. Credit Erin Kirkland for The New York Times. Featured Image [dropcap]DETROIT[/dropcap] — Mark Greer is a black Detroiter so outraged by President Trump’s […]
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