Black Soldiers Were the Real Heroes at San Juan Hill. And
They Got No Credit.
World must prepare for biological weapons that target ethnic
groups based on genetics, says Cambridge University
The Prisoners Forced To Sue for Soap and Toilet Paper:
Prisoners have filed suit against the Wisconsin Department of Corrections due
to unsafe living conditions and inadequate medical care.
Naming the Threat: The scourge of police violence
targeting Black women
Why Diversity Training Isn’t Enough: Addressing
inequality requires more than consciousness raising.
The U.S. health care system has codified racism since its
pre-Reconstruction beginnings, when treatment was used as a means of
controlling newly freed Black Americans. Today, Black citizens must navigate
institutions that still devalue their lives, pain, and needs -- and it's making
our country sicker.
Examining the Demographic Compositions of U.S. Circuit
and District Courts
We don’t need another racist president: Is Michael
Bloomberg, the man who saw potential suspects in every Black and brown face,
all that different from Donald Trump?
Tainted jailhouse informants must be reined in: Too many
wrongful convictions trace their roots to informants who lied their way out of
prison. Continue reading →
Why wealth equality remains out of reach for black
Americans
Former Mass. US attorneys toss the ol’ political football
around: “All of this posturing avoids a long-overdue debate about how to
decrease federal sentences across the board.”
MLK Talks 'New Phase' Of Civil Rights Struggle, 11 Months
Before His Assassination | NBC News
Louisiana Judge Who Fessed Up to Using Racial Slurs Against
Black Employees Resigns
An algorithm that grants freedom or takes it away
The Selected Letters of Ralph Ellison
Let’s not censor Dr. King’s life even as we glorify him:
He sought to transform America and that forced him to be a disrupter — and to
bear the wounds of being unpopular in a just cause.
Johnson: Nathaniel Woods is dead and now we confront who
we are
Black history in the spotlight at CHEER
100 Women of the Year
Michael Milken: Could it Happen Again?
Power to the People
As Dawn Butler discovered, you can't call out racism –
it's just too rude: When did stating facts become impolite?
The Ray Charles Foundation Donates One Million Dollars to
Help the Next Generation of Medical Doctors
Supreme Court Rules Black People Are Not Citizens
The Abortion Doctor and His Accuser: What does it mean to
take women’s claims of sexual assault seriously?
Jewish student’s lawsuit describes years of anti-Semitic
harassment at elite NJ school
The little-told story of the Tuskegee weathermen
James Thindwa, a Man Who Did What Needed to Be Done—And
Said What Needed to Be Said: In These Times lost a friend. But his words live
on.
Our View of Black History Has Radically Shifted in a Few
Short Years: The case for reparations and The 1619 Project have focused
attention on what makes African Americans distinct.
Bookerism and the Black Elite: Managing race relations
from above
Is It Too Late for Bernie Sanders to Win Over Black
Voters? Black voters and suburban women
are the base of the post-Trump Democratic Party that Sanders wants to lead. If
he doesn’t have a strategy for winning them, he’ll lose again.
Incarcerated Women and Girls, 1980-2016
DOJ Wants to Suspend Certain Constitutional Rights During
Coronavirus Emergency: The Department of Justice has secretly asked Congress
for the ability to detain arrested people “indefinitely” in addition to other
powers that one expert called “terrifying”
Alabama executes Nathaniel Woods despite outcry from
activists nationwide: Advocates including Martin Luther King III and Kim
Kardashian West sought to stop state from putting man to death
Bailing Out: Criminal justice reformers are rethinking
the crusade against cash bail.
Policing and the English Language: The poisonous
contradictions of coptalk
Race, Again, in North Carolina
Prejudential Black History
Coard: Philly DA, police chief curing, FOP sickening
Why Nationwide Voting by Mail Isn’t a Silver Bullet in a
Pandemic
Trump loves to tout red tape cuts, but $40 million for
Natives to fight COVID-19 stuck in Catch-22
BLAME IT ON THE WHITES
NY attorney general launches hotline for people to report
discrimination related to coronavirus: “No one should live in fear for their
life because of who they are, what they look like, or where they come
from," Letitia James said.
Feds to quarantine all new inmates for 14 days to try to
guard against COVID-19 in prisons
Courts consider compassionate prisoner release, but many
inmates have nowhere to go: A compelling case has been made for the immediate
release of elderly, infirm, and immune-suppressed inmates. But many of these
people have no families or homes to go to.
Court limits set by SJC safeguard our rights while
protecting our health: "The application of justice is not perfect, and in
rendering decisions involving competing constitutional rights, the courts must
sometimes balance these competing interests."
Suffolk DA Rollins stumbles in taking shot at prison
disciplinary process: "Most of these types of cases concern technical
security breaches, which might put staff — not inmates — at risk."
A Message From VFP
About Us: “Walking in a High Heel and a Moccasin” – An
Indigenous Voice Judith LeBlanc
H.R.748 - CARES Act - TEXT
H.R. 748: Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security
Act - Summary
Taking Back International Women’s Day: Women’s Day was
begun by U.S. socialists; it’s time we reclaimed it.
Watters: Blacks Will Spend Stimulus Money on Chicken,
Weed https://thebiznews.org/2020/03/22/watters-blacks-will-spend-stimulus-money-on-chicken-weed/?fbclid=IwAR1SfNF2uU_iyAD_5d8a4jVhNztBsaoHcZo3Ll19WJax79XZV_l-8qogIUk
Since Emancipation, the United States Has Refused to Make
Reparations for Slavery: But in 1862, the federal government doled out the 2020
equivalent of $23 million—not to the formerly enslaved but to their white
enslavers.
Inside a Murder Trial in Krasner-Era Philadelphia: Not
long ago, a poor black man charged with the murder of a wealthy white man
wouldn’t have a chance at justice. Times have changed.
The Roots of Organizing: The Young Lords’ revolution.
When a Virus and Virulent Racial Supremacy Collides
Marching against Oblivion: International Women’s Day in
Mexico City
On Diversity
On anniversary of MLK's death, his words are 'more
relevant' than ever, his son says: Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated on
April 4, 1968. Five decades later, his family says in a new video, he can help
"guide humanity in the right direction."
Texas racist says coronavirus fears made him stab an
Asian American family as they grocery shopped
Morning Digest: Mirroring Trump, Texas GOP candidate's ad
fans anti-Chinese racism over coronavirus
Early Data Shows African Americans Have Contracted and
Died of Coronavirus at an Alarming Rate: No, the coronavirus is not an
“equalizer.” Black people are being infected and dying at higher rates. Here’s
what Milwaukee is doing about it — and why governments need to start releasing
data on the race of COVID-19 patients.
Lightfoot On Chicago COVID-19 Deaths: More Than Half Were
African American
'It's a racial justice issue': Black Americans are dying
in greater numbers from Covid-19. The
coronavirus can infect anybody but African Americans are dying in
disproportionate numbers, especially in certain big cities
The One Sin White Evangelicals Couldn’t Forgive Barack
Obama For
Kentucky man faces federal charges for child pornography,
just months after Republican pardon
Two black men kicked out of Illinois Walmart, presumably
for wearing protective masks
Sadly, the Neo South Shall Rise Again
Two Locals Brewing Company aims to be one of the first
Black-owned breweries in Philly
Treachery: Murder, Cocaine, and the Lucifer Directive
Color of Covid: The racial justice paradox of our new
stay-at-home economy
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