Posts by Mary Ali-Masai
Too Many of Them Have Been Wrong’: Black Ex-Prosecutor Exposes Misdeeds of Los Angeles Legal System In Volume of Online Stories
A former LA proscecutor’s online memoir details his “good fight” against an “assembly-line of incarceration.”
Read MoreJason Reynolds: ‘Snoop Dogg once told white folks: ‘I know you hate me. But your kids don’t.’ That’s how I feel
America’s ambassador for young people’s literature talks about touring Trump country, facing down racism and why there’s no such thing as a bad kid.
Read MoreWhitewashing the Great Depression
Although the photographers who worked for the FSA took many pictures of people of color—in the streets, in the fields, out of work—the Great Depression’s main victims, as Americans came to visualize them, were white.
Read MorePublic Pressure And Lawsuits Kept USPS From Handing Trump The Election. Here’s How.
The USPS motto, “Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds,” can now be updated to include Covid-19 and Postmaster General DeJoy.
Read MoreThey Can’t Kill Us and We Won’t Die
President-elect Biden acknowledged this debt to Black voters in his acceptance speech. Will he begin the job of dismantling systemic racism and increasing Black wealth? Only time will tell.
Read MoreJoe McCarthy wanted history to forget the inimitable Hazel Scott—and almost succeeded
Joe McCarthy blacklisted Hazel Scott and branded her a “communist.” He did his best to erase her from musical history. He failed.
Read MoreMeet Kristen Welker, the 1st Black Woman to Moderate a Presidential Debate Solo in Almost 30 Years
The first woman to moderate a presidential debate in almost 30 years is nonwhite.
Read MoreGlendale Leads California in Publicly Apologizing for Its ‘Sundown Town’ Past
Glendale, California is the third US city to apologize for its history of racial discrimination as a “sundown town.”
Read MoreWhat’s the Right Term: POC, BIPOC, or Neither?
What are the correct terms to use when referring to non-white people in the United States? POC, BIPOC? It depends upon who you ask.
Read MoreProud Boys: who are the far-right group that backs Donald Trump?
President Trump refused to call the “Proud Boys” a white supremacist group during his presidential debate. Instead he told them to “stand down” and “stand by.”
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