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Back When Sears Made Black Customers a Priority
In this week’s New York Times Race/Related section, Lauretta Charlton gets Cornell University professor Louis Hyman’s take on the effect that the original Sears marketing strategy had on the lives of African-Americans across the country. Sears, Roebuck and Company distributed its catalog in hopes of granting access to new economic territory to Americans of all colors. With this access to a much more competitive market with far lower prices on items of all kinds, African-Americans far and wide took the chance to negate the power of Jim Crow laws that had hitherto denied them equitable access to such goods.
Read MoreBrian Kemp says he’s Georgia’s next governor and Democrats say prove it
With legal wrangles opening and Abrams showing no signs of conceding, the race to becoming Georgia’s next governor is a bitter contest with historical significance and national political repercussions. Abrams would become the first black woman elected governor of any American state. Kemp seeks to maintain Republican dominance in a growing, diversifying Deep South state positioned to become a presidential battleground.
Read MoreHow ‘Gardening While Black’ Almost Landed This Detroit Man in Jail
A black man started an urban farm in his old neighborhood. Three white women called the police repeatedly, accusing him of threatening them. The case went to court.
Read MoreIntel Withdraws Funding For White Supremacist GOP Congressman Steve King
Technology corporation Intel has dropped its support for Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa), an eight-term congressman who has been expressing racist beliefs in increasingly undisguised terms. King has long promoted white nationalist views without any consequence from the GOP.
Read More‘I thought it was very nice’: VA official showcased portrait of KKK’s first grand wizard
David J. Thomas Sr. removed painting from his office after learning that its subject, Nathan Bedford Forrest, was a Confederate general and slave trader who was later the Ku Klux Klan’s first grand wizard. Racial tensions have flared between Thomas and several of his employees, at least three of whom have pending claims of racial discrimination against him.
Read MoreMurphy’s Law City a Leader in White Nationalism
Neo-Nazi group founded by George Lincoln Rockwell, still has its headquarters in New Berlin, Wisconsin. Martin Kerr, the present leader, stated that “We’re not at the end of the Rockwell wave. We’re at the beginning.”
Read MoreWashington State Abolishes the Death Penalty, Finding the Punishment ‘Racially Biased’
Washington has joined nineteen other states in banishing the death penalty due to studies showing racially biased attitudes determining defendants fates. A recent study, for example, found black defendants were four and half times more likely to receive the death penalty than white defendants who had been convicted of similar crimes.
Read MoreMichelle Obama Has An Update For ‘When They Go Low, We Go High’
This article reviews the famous quote “When they go low, we go high” made by Michelle Obama in 2016. Obama expands on her quote with Blavity and there is a link to the full interview at the end of the article.
Read MoreIn Frenzied Georgia Canvassing, No Door Goes Un-Knocked
Voters say they have been deluged as never before as Georgia’s bitterly fought, closely contested governor’s race comes to a close. In the last days before Tuesday’s election, both parties dispatched an army of volunteers, both ordinary working people and celebrities like Oprah Winfrey and President Obama.
Read More49ers Cheerleader Takes A Knee During National Anthem
By Carla Herreria A cheerleader for the San Francisco 49ers kneeled during the national anthem on Thursday during a game against the Oakland Raiders at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, south of San Francisco. In 2016, Kaepernick began kneeling during the national anthems to draw attention to police brutality against minorities. Other players in the…
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