The Whiteness Protection Program
Mike Adams | TownHall As a criminology professor, I spend a lot of time counseling students who are getting abused in the classroom. In fact, any white male …
The Rise of Green Spaces in Inner Cities
By C.N.E. Corbin | Black Perspectives An urban farm in Chicago that replaced public housing. The construction of mixed-income housing appears in …
A Discourse on Race and Inequality in the United States
By Kasturi “Rumu” DasGupta | Black Perspectives The U.S. Census Bureau reported in early September (2017) that the median household …
Are Black Churches a Key to Saving America?
By JOHN ZMIRAK | STREAM I just got back from a conference of African-American pastors. I have arrived. I’m now an “ally.” That’s a word …
The Black/White Sentencing Disparity Has Increased, New Study Shows
By Tanasia Kenney, Atlanta Black Star A recent study by the United States Sentencing Commission just confirmed what most in the Black community already knew. …
10 African Americans Win 2018 Rhodes Scholarships, Most Ever in Rhodes History
Cadet Simone Askew, of Fairfax, Va., is one of 32 Americans awarded Rhodes scholarships to study at Oxford University in England. (Richard Drew, …
American Petroleum Institute Dismisses Study Linking Oil, Gas Emissions to Disproportionate Health Risks for Black Americans
By Tanasia Kenney, Atlanta Black Star Officials with the American Petroleum Institute are refuting the findings of a recent report highlighting the …
Twenty-Five Percent of HBCU’s Student Body Is Non-Black: Is This the End of Majority Black Schools?
By Frederick Reese, Atlanta Black Star In 2014, the North Carolina Senate unanimously moved to remove a budget provision that would have given the state’s …
His act of defiance went viral. Now elected, Braxton Winston aims to fix the system from within
By Joanna Walters | The Guardian One of the newest faces of politics in Trump-era America is a man who became a prominent activist after a police shooting in …
How to Fight White Backlash
Harold Cruse, Stokely Carmichael, and Martin Luther King, Jr. all offered acute diagnoses of the backlash to civil rights legislation By Robert Greene | …
‘This is surreal’: descendants of slaves and slaveowners meet on US plantation
By Alan Huffman | The Guardian The gathering at Prospect Hill plantation that day could have been a casting call for a period drama set before the American …
Can Philadelphia’s Retaking of its Its Local School System Become a Model for Community Control
By David Love | Atlanta Black Star After 16 years, Philadelphia is retaking control of its public schools from the state government. For …
Black Catholic History Month called chance to learn, share rich history
Amy Wise Taylor | CRUX CHARLESTON, South Carolina – Sister Roberta Fulton, principal of St. Martin de Porres School in Columbia, gets excited every year …
The Tragic Story of Althea Garrison, the First Trans Person to Hold State Office in America
Molly Osberg | Splinter News When Danica Roem became one of the first openly transgender candidates to win a seat in a state legislature last night—besting …
She’s an African American rabbi with Southern Baptist roots
by Dan Geringer, The Inquirer Tiferet Berenbaum, 34, one of the few female African American rabbis in the United States, arrived in July at Temple Har Zion in …
No, Your Black Wealth Isn’t Enough to Protect You From Racism
By Tanasia Kenney | Atlanta Black Star Over 60 percent of Black Americans earning $75,000 a year or more say they’ve been the target of a racial slur …
How millions of white Americans bought into a racist myth
EBONY SLAUGHTER-JOHNSON, ALTERNET This article originally appeared on AlterNet. Days after President Donald Trump mocked professional athletes taking …
Hurricane Harvey debris dumped next to an African American community
By Julie Dermansky | National Observer Tami Thomas-Pinkney’s house in Port Arthur, Texas, was not damaged when Hurricane Harvey soaked the city with up to 28 …