Race and Racism

African-American Racist Attack

Reality Check (Free subscription) | 11/26/2009

3 African-Americans attacked a Caucasian. The victim "suffered severe head trauma, a fractured jaw and broken teeth ."

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God's Politics (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009

Afghanistan. President Barack Obama met Monday evening with his national security team to finalize a plan to dispatch some 34,000 additional U.S. troops over the next year to what he's called "a war of necessity" in Afghanistan, U.S. officials told McClatchy. Obama is expected to announce his long-awaited decision on Dec. 1. Philippines. The Government of the Philippines declared a state...

Mississippi Fights to Remain Number One in Institutional Racism [Black People]

Valleywag (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009

Governor Haley Barbour hit the Mississippi politician superfecta: he's proposed something that is at once racist, sexist, classist, and bad for education. Barbour's proposed budget would merge the...

• MS Gov. proposes to merge state's three HBCUs - The HBCU Blog

Duane Reasoner Jr., Fort Hood and African-American Muslims

Jack and Jill Politics (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009

On Good Morning America this am, I watched as they aired a short segment probing an 18 year old friend named Duane Reasoner of Nidal Hasan, the alleged shooter at Fort Hood. There’s a sensational, almost exploitative quality to the coverage of this young man. He apparently was hanging out with Hasan and his Imam [...]

If I see another "Black People on..." post on Tumblr today I'm going to call the Rev. Al Sharpton on you motherfuckers and I don't even like that guy.

Hi My Name is Kia (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009

Yes, there tends to be a cultural difference in how certain groups use the internet. How is this newsworthy? Is this not true of pretty much everything that exists in the world? Get out of my life. This pseudo well-meaning “white fascination” with “how black people use” Facebook or Twitter is akin to people being fascinated by a rare species in its natural habitat. Maybe I...

Claire Detels' performance of samples of music of some of the Great African American composers Friday night brought support to OMNI Center for Peace, Justice and Ecology

Carbon Caps Task Force (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009

Please click on image to move to Flickr site and ENLARGE view of Claire Detels on October 20, 2009

C. Brian Smith: Hello, Mormons and Black People! (Q&A w/a California Homosexual)

The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009

www.HomosexualsAreALotLikeNormalPeople.com...

CD/DOWNLOAD/ALBUM: "Fire in My Bones: Raw, Rare and Otherworldly African American Gospel, 1944-2007" (Tompkins Square) out Today!

All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009

Fire in My Bones: Raw, Rare and Otherworldly African American Gospel, 1944-2007 (Tompkins Square) Almost 4 hours of super-compelling, undiluted, stripped-down gospel on 3 discs! The majority of this music has never been reissued on CD, or in any other form (most tracks were originally released on regional independent labels). Most post-WWII compilations of African-American gospel music naturally concentrate...

Video: The Advertising Council, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and AdoptUsKids Launch Campaign to Encourage the Adoption of African American Children in Foster Care

PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009

NEW YORK, Oct. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- The Advertising Council, in partnership with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' (HHS) Children's Bureau and AdoptUsKids, announced today the launch of a campaign designed to encourage the adoption of African American children from foster care.

Effect of Housing Crisis on Latino and African American Communities

ImmigrationProf Blog (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009

BRIEFING TO DISCUSS THE CURRENT HOUSING CRISIS ON LATINO AND AFRICAN AMERICAN FAMILIES IN SAN FRANCISCO AND NATIONWIDE Hosted by: Honorable Supervisors Avalos, Campos and Maxwell, the Mayor’s Office of Housing, CARECEN, Dolores Street Community Services, Bernal Heights Neighborhood Center,...

Barbie as The Princess and The Pauper: Ken as King Dominick and Tutor Julian Doll (African American)

Top Model Barbie Toys (Free subscription) | 10/25/2009

He's African American? Really? We didn't notice. Huh. Well, his jacket was a pain to get on and off. He wasn't much of a dancer either. Maybe he was shy. We'll never know if he would have come out of his shell though, because unfortunately, the dog ate him. Such is the life of the Ken doll. I'm sure he died defending the castle. Cheap Barbie as The Princess and The Pauper: Ken as King Dominick and...

Do Vitter and Melancon Let Black People Use Their Bathrooms?

Michael Homan (Free subscription) | 10/20/2009

Louisiana politicians, for good reason, have been rushing to call for the ousting of Louisiana justice of the peace Keith Bardwell in Tangipahoa Parish. Bardwell made national headlines by refusing to marry a white woman to a black man earlier this month because he believes that most interracial marriages end in divorce. The best part is when he stated "I'm not a racist. I just don't believe in...

Louisiana Justice of the Peace: "I'm not racist...As evidence, consider that I let black people use my bathroom."

Crushed by Inertia (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009

A Louisiana justice of the peace said he refused to issue a marriage license to an interracial couple out of concern for any children the couple might have. Keith Bardwell, justice of the peace in Tangipahoa Parish, says it is his experience that most interracial marriages do not last long. "I'm not a racist. I just don't believe in mixing the races that way," Bardwell told the Associated...

Mayoral candidates speak at Dr. Carter G. Woodson African American Museum

Bay Buzz (Free subscription) | 10/13/2009

Mayoral forum at Woodson Museum

Wells Fargo and the National Black MBA Association Honor Distinguished African American Entrepreneurs

Business Wire (Free subscription) | 10/08/2009

NEW ORLEANS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--For the third consecutive year, Wells Fargo & Company (NYSE:WFC) and the National Black MBA Association (NBMBAA) honored African American entrepreneurs with the NBMBAA/Wells Fargo Entrepreneur Excellence Award. This year’s winners are Willie Davis Jr., owner of Just Bucket Excavating, Inc., general excavation contractors that perform commercial, institutional,...