Posts Tagged ‘Racism’
Kroger Manager Accused of Racial Profiling After Calling Cops On Black Teens Buying Snacks
A Kroger manager has been accused of racial profiling after calling cops on black teens after they purchases snacks from his store. The four teens all provided receipts for the items that they had purchased but still were issued trespassing warnings by request of the manager.
Read MoreAmerica Is Racist. So What Do We Do Now? Activist Lawyer Bryan Stevenson Has Some Answers
Bryan Stevenson has some answers for those who are not sure what to do to change racism in America.
Read MoreThe Quiet Crisis Killing Black Women
Black women are more vulnerable to domestic violence due to a constellation of factors, including high rates of poverty, lack of access to resources and systemic racism within systems designed to help victims of abuse
Read MoreFacebook Removed A Former Employee’s Post Accusing It Of ‘Failing’ Black People
In a recent article published in the Huffington Post’s Black Voices section, journalist David Barden describes incredibly unfortunate allegations brought against the world’s premier social media platform by one of its former employees. Facebook’s former strategic partner manager for global influencers, Mark Luckie, contends that the social media giant is a common violator of African Americans’ posts, reportedly removing them even when Facebook’s terms of service have not been violated. In a culture that is straining more than ever towards removing even the faintest hint of racial inequity, it is greatly troubling that a platform that is supposed to connect people together is so effectively tearing them apart. It is the solemn obligation for each and every American – regardless of color – to preach the message that such actions as those allegedly committed by Facebook will never stand before the justice of the American people.
Read MoreGOP Senator Who Made ‘Hanging’ Remark Attended ‘Segregated’ Academy
Cindy Hyde-Smith, the Republican Mississippi senator who made comments condoning “public hangings,” attended a “segregated” school when she was younger
Read More‘Make racists afraid again’: Proud Boys had hard time finding rides after Philadelphia rally
A rally staged by the alt right group, the Three Percenters, was disrupted by the combined efforts of Philadelphia city drivers. Uber and Taxi drivers staged a counter protest to the Three Percenters’ rally by not providing transportation to members of the racist alt-right group after they had staged their event.
Read MoreBack 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 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 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.
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