Race

Over 40 Years Afro-Americans Make Progress

May 18, 2016 Jesse J. Holland, www.newsobserver.com Educate! Black People, Race

By Jesse J. Holland for Associated Press - African-Americans are doing about the same as they have in previous years as the nation rises out of the Great Recession, and much better than they did when its first "State of Black America" report came out 40 years ago, the National Urban League said Tuesday. The new report, "Locked Out: Education, Jobs & Justice," looks at how blacks and Hispanics have been doing in the United States over the last few years and how they were doing in 1976, the year the National Urban League began issuing its annual report.

Black Study, Black Struggle

March 25, 2016 Robin D. G. Kelley, www.bostonreview.net Organize! Education, Higher Education, History, Political Education, Race

By Robin D. G. Kelley for Boston Review - In the fall of 2015, college campuses were engulfed by fires ignited in the streets of Ferguson, Missouri. This is not to say that college students had until then been quiet in the face of police violence against black Americans. Throughout the previous year, it had often been college students who hit the streets, blocked traffic, occupied the halls of justice and malls of America, disrupted political campaign rallies, and risked arrest to protest the torture and suffocation of Eric Garner...

UN Panel Recommends Changes To U.S. School Discipline

February 3, 2016 Evie Blad, www.blogs.edweek.org Create! Education, Race, Racism, United States

By Evie Blad for Education Week - A panel of experts convened by the United Nations has recommended changes to U.S. school discipline, including the removal of police from schools, to equitable treatment of black youths. The U.N. working group of experts on people of African descent visited various cities around the United States in January, hearing testimony from experts and advocacy groups about equity concerns in areas like criminal justice, housing, and education. Those included student groups who've pushed for a reduction in zero-tolerance discipline policies in schools and a South Carolina student who was arrested for protesting her classmate's violent arrest...

How Economics And Race Drive America’s Great Divide

December 15, 2015 Lynn Parramore, www.ineteconomics.org Strategize! Education, Race, United States

By Lynn Parramore for Institute for New Economic Thinking - In the America of haves and have-nots, fewer folks are “movin’ on up” like George Jefferson of the classic sitcom. In a new paper for the Institute for New Economic Thinking, Peter Temin, MIT economist and economic historian, breaks down how it happened and where we’re headed with a powerful model first used by West Indian economist W. Arthur Lewis, the only person of African descent to win a Nobel Prize in economics. Dual economies are common in less developed countries, but Temin argues that America has now diverged into a top thirty percent, where children receive excellent educations and grow up to work in sectors like finance, technology and electronics industries (FTE)...

Does U.S. Farm Policy Have A Race Problem?

December 7, 2015 Steve Holt, www.truth-out.org Educate! Farming, Race

By Steve Holt for Occupy - When it comes to the disparities within the food system, the numbers are pretty stark. The 10 largest mega-corporations generate $450 million annually in food sales. These companies’ CEOs earn, on average, 12 times what their workers make. Of those food workers, women of color make less than half of the salaries of their male counterparts and are far more likely to need nutrition assistance than workers in other industries. Black farmers have lost 80 percent of their land since 1920, while large-scale and corporate farms make nearly half the agricultural sales—despite accounting for less than five percent of all farms.

On December 4th, Remember The Life Of Fred Hampton

December 4, 2015 Bill Simpich, www.readersupportednews.org Educate! Race, United States

By Bill Simpich for Reader Supported News - There is one thing that’s even worse than being attacked by the police on the street. That’s being attacked by the police – and the FBI – and the local prosecutor – in your bedroom while you’re asleep. There is one thing that’s even more inspiring than Martin Luther King breaking down segregation. That’s people – where they live – in motion – for liberation. That’s the story of Fred Hampton and the Black Panthers in Chicago. Panthers like Fred set up school breakfasts so poor kids wouldn’t suffer all morning because they were hungry.

Laquan McDonald Shows Black Lives Matter Is Right To Target Dems

December 2, 2015 Joy-Ann Reid, www.thedailybeast.com Strategize! #BlackLivesMatter, Black Lives Matter (BLM), police brutality, Race

By Joy-Ann Reid for The Daily Beast - When Black Lives Matter protesters disrupted Democratic presidential candidates, liberal Democrats hemmed and hawed. Why protest your political allies, many asked, rather than target your foes? Protest is, at its core, designed to move policy. And today, for the vast majority of African Americans, the politicians in the best position to move policy for people of color, particularly at the local level, are Democrats. Democrats run most of the big cities where black people live, and they often lead the county and state prosecutors’ offices covering smaller, Republican-run cities like Ferguson, Missouri.

‘All Lives Matter’ Is Racist – Weekend’s Trump Rally Proved It

December 1, 2015 Dave Bry, www.theguardian.com Educate! #BlackLivesMatter, Black Lives Matter (BLM), Donald Trump, Race

By Dave Bry for The Guardian - As disturbing as it is to watch that video of a black protester being beaten and dragged out of a Donald Trump speech in Alabama on Saturday, you should watch it. Everybody should, if only for the clarity that it brings to aphrase that’s been hampering public discourse about racism in America for the past two years : “all lives matter”. The important part starts around the one-minute mark of the original video, when the protester is pulled up off the floor and led away by members of the event security staff and some of the more aggressive volunteers from the crowd. The man is wearing a T-shirt bearing the slogan “Black Lives Matter”.

A Black Woman’s Response To Marginalization At Princeton

December 1, 2015 Ebony Slaughter, www.equalvoiceforfamilies.org Resist! #BlackLivesMatter, Black Lives Matter (BLM), Higher Education, Race, Student Protests

By Ebony Slaughter for Equal Voice - Professing themselves to be “sick and tired of being sick and tired,” student activists at my alma mater, Princeton University, passionately and powerfully challenged the university in recent days to make certain changes to improve the experience of Black students. They demanded, in the same vein as students at other colleges and universities, that Princeton offer mandatory sensitivity training for faculty, create a safe space for Black students and change the name of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. In the process, in my opinion, they exposed the quiet, latent racism of Princeton.

Lewis & Clark Students Sit-In Over Campus Racial Violence

November 26, 2015 Betsy Hammond, www.oregonlive.com Resist! Higher Education, Race, Student Protests

By Betsy Hammond for The Oregonian - Dozens of Lewis & Clark College students began peacefully and silently occupying rooms outside the college president's office at about 9:30 a.m. Tuesday to send him the message they want more done to create safety and inclusion on campus. They were still there at nightfall, and planned to remain overnight. Their protest comes after several race-related incidents on campus, including a Saturday morning attack on a black student from Rwanda who said three white men beat him while making racist remarks.

Brandeis Students Say Campus Lacks Racial Diversity

November 25, 2015 Jan Ransom, www.bostonglobe.com Resist! #BlackLivesMatter, Black Lives Matter (BLM), Race, Student Protests

By Jan Ransom for The Boston Globe - WALTHAM — Hundreds of students at Brandeis University have occupied the administration building that includes the president’s office since Friday, and they vow not to leave until the interim president, Lisa M. Lynch, promises to address their demands pertaining to diversity, including the hiring of additional black faculty and counselors. #ConcernedStudents2015, as the group calls itself, started its round-the-clock occupation of the Bernstein-Marcus Administrative Center after Lynch failed to address 13 concerns listed in a letter sent to her on Thursday.

The Man Beaten And Choked At A Donald Trump Rally Tells His Story

November 23, 2015 Alice Ollstein, www.thinkprogress.org Educate! #BlackLivesMatter, Black Lives Matter (BLM), Donald Trump, Race

By Alice Ollstein for Think Progress - When activist Mercutio Southall Jr. was curled up on the ground getting kicked, punched, and choked by Donald Trump supporters at a campaign rally in Birmingham, Alabama, he thought, “I can’t die today. I’ve got shit to do. I have little kids. Fuck these people.” The single father of three, who was raised in the civil rights cradle of Selma, Alabama, told ThinkProgress that he had gone to Trump’s event with two friends in order to speak out against the frontrunner candidate’s “racist” rhetoric. “The things that he’s been saying about black people, Latino people, immigrants, refugees — we felt it was very disrespectful,” he said.

Hundreds Of Thousands Call For Prosecution Of Tamir Rice Killer

November 21, 2015 Staff, www.climategames.net Resist! #BlackLivesMatter, Black Lives Matter (BLM), police brutality, Race, Tamir Rice

By Staff of Color of Change - New York, NY -- On Monday, Tamir Rice’s family and a number of racial justice organizations will deliver more than 200,000 petitions to Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Tim McGinty’s office demanding a special prosecutor. The delivery is part of a weekend of action in honor of 1 year since Tamir was brutally killed and in protest of Prosecutor McGinty’s inability to oversee the case. For more information on the #YearWithoutTamir action weekend please see: www.JusticeForTamir.com. WHEN/WHERE: Monday, November 23. Press should arrive at Willard Park, Cleveland, Ohio 41144 at 12:00 for pre-march interviews.

Occidental Students Occupy For Resignation Of President And More

November 20, 2015 Tyler Kingkade, www.huffingtonpost.com Resist! Higher Education, Occupation, Race, Student Protests

By Tyler Kingkade for The Huffington Post - A group of more than 400 students have taken part in an ongoing occupation of an administrative building at Occidental College in Los Angeles to demand, among other things, the resignation of the school president, Jonathan Veitch. The student activists issued a list of demands at a rally Thursday in response to the treatment of minority student groups on campus. Other demands include the demilitarization of the campus police, the creation of a black studies major, and the immediate removal of the Los Angeles Police Department from campus. Activists have given the administration a Friday deadline to meet these demands.

GU Students Sit-In To Erase Names Of Slaveholders On Buildings

November 20, 2015 Elizabeth Teitz, www.georgetownvoice.com Resist! Higher Education, Race, Student Protests

By Elizabeth Teitz for The Georgetown Voice - Student organizers of the sit-in at University President John DeGioia’s office, who are calling their movement #BuiltOn272, have released a statement further explaining the impetus for fighting for the name change and their goals for the protest. “Black individuals have historically been an integral part of the foundation and advancement of Georgetown’s academic Institution with little to no recognition. We are imploring that the University recognize and acknowledge the role that Black people have had and continue to have on this campus,” the group wrote in its statement.

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