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In NYC, how a new generation of Afro-Latinos celebrates their Blackness
The 2019 Afro-Latino festival was in full swing last week in NYC, drawing crowds from around the country to celebrate their culture.
House Democrats Call For Increased Security After ‘Send Her Back’ Chants At Trump Rally
Representative Al Green calls for increased security after an incident at a Trump Rally in North Carolina, where supporters are chanting ‘send her back’ in response to Ilhan Omar. This act was the consequence of prior issues concering three other women representatives of color.
Lawmakers Sponsor Bill to Give Federal Prisoners a Chance for “Second Look” at Their Sentences
Senator Cory Booker and Representative Karen Bass produced a bill as an effort to reform the prison system, titled the Matthew Charles and William Underwood Second Look Act. It provides this country a chance to change the prison system and focus on the rehabilitation of convicts rather than punishment.
DHS Officials Say Massive Deportation Raids Will Start This Weekend; More than 2,000 Undocumented Immigrants, Including Families, Targeted
Raids will occur in cities across the country, and undocumented immigrants will be deported, regardless of if they were the target of the raid or not.
For Black Women With Means, Money Isn’t The Only Barrier To Abortion Access
An interview with Linda Goler Blount, the chief executive of the Black Women’s Health Imperative, allows an insight to how abortion for women of color has changed in recent times.
Enslaved People Lived Here.These Museums Want You to Know
By Tariro Mzezewa, The New York Times A few years ago, people touring the Owens-Thomas House and Slave Quarters in Savannah, Ga., would have heard a lot about George Owens, the lawyer, farmer and Congressional representative who lived in the massive neoclassical home in 1833. And about banker and slave trader Richard Richardson, for whom…
California Lawmakers Pass Bill Aimed At Curbing Deadly Police Shooting
The California State Senate passed a bill to raise the standard for law enforcement’s use of deadly force, with the goal of reducing fatal police shootings. It replaces the “current vague standard” that officers can use deadly force “whenever reasonable” with a stricter standard allowing for deadly force “only when necessary.”
Kamala Harris and Classmates Were Bused Across Berkeley.
An in depth examination of the busing that occurred in Berkley California, recently referenced during the Democratic Party debates.
Black Couple Shocked When Contractor Shows Up For Work With Confederate Flag
By David Moye, Huffington Post A black couple’s encounter with a white man they hired to fix their golf cart is going viral for the polite way they handled an awkward situation. On Saturday, Atlanta couple Allison and Zeke Brown hired a contractor, identified as “Michael,” to fix the brakes of their golf cart. Things quickly…
Nike and Kaepernick Back in Culture Wars After ‘Betsy Ross Flag’ Sneaker Furor
By Tiffany Hsu, Kevin Draper, Sandra E. Garcia and Niraj Chokshi, The New York Times Nike planned to celebrate the Fourth of July with a new sneaker, a special edition of the Air Max 1 Quick Strike featuring that most patriotic of symbols: an American flag. But rather than including a flag with 50 stars…
GOP Lied About Using Racial Data To Gerrymander, Lawyers Say
North Carolina Republicans lied to a federal court in 2017 when they claimed that they didn’t use racial data about voters as they drew new electoral maps. The daughter of a GOP master of gerrymandering gave the files to a voting rights group, Common Cause. That group has now filed suit in court.
‘This Is About the Preservation of Our Humanity’: Vile Conditions, Racist Rhetoric at Border Facilities
Democrats visiting three detention facilities in Texas on Monday had to raise their voices—despite having microphones—to be heard over the shouts and heckling of pro-Donald Trump, anti-immigrant groups. They pointed to the conditions at the country’s detention centers—which have been compared to Nazi concentration camps—as evidence of a xenophobic and violently negligent environment.
Joe Biden and Democratic Rivals Exchange Attacks Over His Remarks on Segregationists.
As Joe Biden’s presidential campaign takes an unexpected turn he is forced to defend his record on civil rights. After acknowledging the work he had done with conservative representatives in the past such as James O. Eastland, people believe that he is out of touch with political change in America.
Parkland Teen Kyle Kashuv, Former Turning Point USA Member, Apologizes For Racist Slurs
Harvard rescinds the admission decision of Kyle Kashuv, a student who was affected by the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in 2018, due to racist remark he made just months before the incident. Some say that the Ivy-League school has gone too far but the majority agree with the university’s decision. An apology is not enough to repair the damage of his actions and the years of history he chose to ignore.
Exonerated ‘Central Park Five’ men receive joyful praise and standing ovation at BET Awards
The five black and Latino teenagers falsely convicted of killing a Central Park jogger in 1989 received high praise when they hit the stage on Sunday at the BET Awards. Now called the ‘Exonerated Five’ – Kevin Richardson, Yusef Salaam, Antron McCray, Raymond Santana, and Korey Wise – have become the face of injustice at the hands of the American legal system.
Americans Won’t Be Free Until We Face Our Racist History
“True Justice: Bryan Stevenson’s Fight for Equality,” a new HBO documentary coming out June 26, digs into Stevenson’s work with the Montgomery, Alabama-based Equal Justice Initiative, fighting racism in the criminal justice system for over 30 years, largely by defending poor, black people on death row.
How 2020 (Democratic) Contenders Are Approaching Police Brutality And Criminal Justice Reform
South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg has been criticized by the black community in his city for his handling of a recent fatal shooting by police of a black man. This article relates how Mayor Buttigieg and other Democratic presidential candidates with strong backgrounds in managing law enforcement have handled police.
It’s Juneteenth, and a White Nationalist Is President
With the South rising again on the watch of President Donald Trump, who plans to turn the Fourth of July this year from a celebration of America to a celebration of himself, it’s time for Americans who champion equality to begin celebrating Juneteenth.June 19, 1865 — “Juneteenth” being a combination of June and nineteenth — should remind all Americans of the long and complex fight required to end slavery here.
This police robot could make traffic stops safer
A California man has built a robot that he hopes will take some of the danger out of traffic stops — those anxiety-provoking and potentially deadly encounters between police officers and motorists that play out on American roads more than 50,000 times a day. Such encounters lead to many injuries and deaths each year — particularly among black motorists, who are more likely than their white counterparts to experience violence from police.
Donald Trump Insists People Are On ‘Both Sides’ Of Exonerated Central Park 5 Case
President Trump continues to refuse to apologize for his 1989 ad calling to execute five teenagers who were falsely accused of rape in the notorious Central Park Five case. All five were convicted based on coerced confessions and little evidence. They were exonerated in 2002 thanks to DNA evidence. A new Netflix series “When They See Us” by Ava DuVerney (director of “13th”) re-examines their story.
