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Rep. Bobby Rush endorses Mike Bloomberg
Rush was backing Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., for president before she dropped out
MLK Jr. and the Black Panthers Were More Alike Than You Were Taught
"The demands of the Panthers were not so distinct from the demands of Dr. King by the end of his life."
Two more Mississippi inmates killed in prison: 9 inmates dead in less than a month
The most recent deaths appear to be "an isolated incident," the Mississippi Department of Corrections said in a tweet.
Congressional Black Caucus
The Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) has been committed to using the full Constitutional power, statutory authority, and financial resources of the federal government to ensure that African Americans and other marginalized communities in the United...
Mick Mulvaney admits quid pro quo with Ukraine
The White House acting chief of staff said President Trump ordered him to withhold military aid in part to pressure Ukraine to investigate Democrats.
The Long War Against Slavery
A new book argues that many seemingly isolated rebellions are better understood as a single protracted struggle.
Ida B. Wells' Battle to Uncover the Truth
Born to enslaved parents on a Mississippi plantation during the Civil War, Ida B. Wells emerged as a powerful investigative journalist. She overcame death threats and published widely in her quest to document the domestic terrorism against African...
Why a DOJ probe, the latest in a string of actions against Mississippi prisons, could take years
The Justice Department, through its Civil Rights Division, is more than familiar with problems plaguing correctional institutions in Mississippi and across the Deep South. However, their investigations and the settlements that normally follow don't...
How to Convince a White Realtor You’re Middle Class
Black people expend daily energy to counteract racial stereotypes and get fair treatment.
Self-identified race, socially assigned skin tone, and adult physiological dysregulation: Assessing multiple dimensions of “race” in health disparities research
Despite a general acceptance of “race” as a social, rather than biological construct in the social sciences, racial health disparities research has gi…
Levels of racism: a theoretic framework and a gardener's tale.
The author presents a theoretic framework for understanding racism on 3 levels: institutionalized, personally mediated, and internalized. This framework is useful for raising new hypotheses about the basis of race-associated differences in health...
Virginia Senate votes to eliminate Lee-Jackson Day, make Election Day state holiday
The Virginia Senate passed a bill that would eliminate Lee-Jackson Day as a state holiday in favor of making Election Day a state holiday.
Author Events - UNC Press
Calendar of upcoming book-related events for authors published by the University of North Carolina Press.
Guns Are No Mere Symbol
Protesters gathered at the Virginia state capitol on Monday to exercise their First Amendment rights, but they did so in a way that took away the First Amendment rights of others.
‘A Society Gone Mad on War’: The Enduring Importance of Martin Luther King’s Riverside Speech
Fifty years ago today, the civil-rights leader described the nightmare to come: “A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.”
Earl Butz - Wikipedia
Sandy Darity, Retweets do not mean e
@tressiemcphd wow! Reminds me of a notorious comment by Gerald Ford's bigoted Secretary of Agriculture, Earl Butz
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