Posts Tagged ‘anti-Black violence’
8 Suspected Lynchings Have Taken Place in Mississippi Since 2000
There is no more blatant form of racial intimidation against a Black person that one can use than that of a noose. The practice of lynching was used against enslaved Black people, but it was an especially popular form of violence against Black Americans after slavery ended. It is considered a more dated form of violence today, but a story in the Washington Post reports that the practice of lynching never truly stopped.
Jill Collen Jefferson, a lawyer and founder of Julian, a civil rights organization named after the late civil rights leader Julian Bond, has been conducting her own research into lynching in Mississippi and found that at least eight Black people have been lynched in the state since 2000.
The panic over critical race theory is an attempt to whitewash U.S. history
In the same week when Juneteenth became a national holiday, schoolteachers in Texas, where the commemoration originally marked the end of slavery in that state, could teach about these events only at their peril. An author of the original Critical Race Theory explains the consequences of “erasing” the truth about our country’s history.
Read MoreTennessee man charged with murder for burning black man to death, then using Bible to justify act
Man writes a letter to a white supremacist group and uses the bible to justify the murder of a Black man.
Read MoreColin Kaepernick’s Jersey Hangs in the Same Museum as ‘Starry Night’
by Priscilla Frank, HuffPost Black Voices One of the most recent additions to the halls of New York’s Museum of Modern Art is a red San Francisco 49ers jersey. The same jersey worn by Colin Kaepernick between 2011 and 2016. Kaepernick’s sports jersey hangs with four others featured in the ongoing MoMA exhibition “Items: Is Fashion Modern?”, which…
Read MoreBoy’s Near-Hanging Compels Town to Open Discussion on Racism
By Michael Casey, The Grio/Associated Press CLAREMONT, N.H. (AP) — In this struggling mill town in western New Hampshire, racism was never something people talked all that much about. There were people who drove around Claremont with Confederate flag bumper stickers in the mostly white town of 14,000 and some instances of high schoolers using…
Read MoreWhen Cops Kill Black People: America’s Two Realities and Why Jurors Can’t Believe Their Lying Eyes
Imagine living in a “Tale of Two Cities,” where perceptions continue to support the rule of the day as it plays out on the World Stage of life for people of color? Places where slaughter and injustice against, and done unto black and brown bodies are authorized and condoned, even and especially by the laws that supposedly govern all equally. All in the name of protecting and preserving white fragility, white perceived way of life and the egregious greed that is ultimately stolen as rights of another.
Read MoreSacrificing Black Lives for the American Lie
Why are police officers rarely charged for taking black lives, and when they are, why do juries rarely convict?
Many Americans asked this question when a Minnesota jury decided that Philando Castile was responsible for his own death and that the officer who shot him, did nothing wrong.
Read MoreGoogle Launches ‘Lynching In America’ Project Exploring Country’s Violent Racial History
Google does the unthinkable and creates a project dedicated to the history of lynchings in America. Read all about it here.
Read More‘Genocide Project’–Study Shows Shocking Stats of Blacks Murdered In Brazil
The high rate of killings of African descendents in Brazil, likenes itself to what has now been termed “genocide project” of Black people.
Read MoreWatch: My Black History: Michael Eric Dyson on How MLK’s Assassination Opened His Eyes
From: The Root Video Created by: P.J. Rickards To commemorate the month of February and its celebration of Black History, Michael Eric Dyson (author, professor, and ordained minister) reflects on how the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. changed Dyson’s perspective on racial injustice. Dyson’s lesson learned from MLK’s assassination is best summarized as…
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