Archive for October 2012
Students in blackface re-enact Chris Brown beating Rihanna
In an show of racism and ignorance of domestic abuse, high school students wore blackface to reenact abuse between Chris Brown and Rihanna.
Read MoreWhat’s wrong with affirmative action – and why we need it
Journalist L.Z. Granderson understands the need for affirmative action–and where these policies fall short.
Read MoreHow Many Slaves Landed in the US?
Henry Louis Gates Jr. examines how many people were kidnapped from Africa and forced into enslavement in the west.
Read MoreWho Will Mourn George Whitmore?
George Whitmore’s experience in the criminal justice system and court of public opinion, only to be forgotten, leaves us questioning.
Read MoreRace and College Admissions, Facing a New Test by Justices
A young white woman has become the face of the anti-affirmative action movement in the United States.
Read MoreHappy Birthday, Faith Ringgold, Boundary-Breaker, Black Artist and Arts Promoter!
Faith Ringgold is an activist who made sure that her art represented and reflected her African heritage.
Read MoreTexas Forces Voters to Prove They’re Alive
By theRoot.com After courts twice cited the Voting Rights Act in rulings that blocked Texas voter-ID laws on the grounds that they were discriminatory, proponents of such efforts have recently begun executing a new strategy: requiring voters to submit written verification that they are alive before arriving at the polls. The strategy is part of a 2011…
Read MoreABHM’s Brad Pruitt’s Latest Film Premieres Sunday/Monday at the Milwaukee Film Festival
Bending Toward the Light explores the challenges and triumphs of educational systems in the US through the lens of students, parents, teachers, reformers and activists in the country’s heartland – Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Less of an indictment of the education system and more of a dialogue on what can be done to fix its problems,…
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