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“We are our ancestors’ wildest dreams”
“Just thinking about being a black doctor in America,” one of 14 African-American medical students said as they posed outside the former slave quarters of a Louisiana plantation. Read story here. (Click on image to enlarge) [...]
Ohso poor Julián and Kamala set a poor example!
IN TODAY’S EMAIL: Stephen, I’m putting the DNC on notice. I’m not interested in a handout for the debate stage. I’m not asking for anybody to change the rules of the game in the middle of it. But it’s time for our party to make some big changes. It’s time for the DNC to[...]
It’s happened again.
In Fort Worth, Texas, another white cop shot another black person dead inside her own home. This is a developing story. Read details here and here. Update: Fort Worth Interim Police Chief Ed Kraus announced Monday morning that the cop who shot Ms. Jefferson, who he identified as Aaron Dean, would ha[...]
October 10th, 2019 - 7:59 am § in Racism, The Ave Scene
Seattle’s Great Southern Chef
“When you think other careers like an engineer, no one says, ‘I’m a great black engineer.’ No. Just, ‘I’m a great engineer.’ My fear was that people would recognize me as a black chef instead of just a great chef.” – EDUARDO JORDAN (Huff Post by ByTamara Gane, G[...]
August 19th, 2019 - 10:02 am § in Racism
NYPD fires Eric Garner chokehold cop
The NYPD commissioner has fired the cop who used a prohibited chokehold on Eric Garner, who died 5 years ago in an encounter with police over selling cigarettes on a street corner. The commissioner followed the recommendation of a civil service judge. Previously, a grand jury had refused to i[...]
August 3rd, 2019 - 5:26 pm § in Racism
16 hours, 2 angry young white men, 2 assault rifles, 2 states: 31 dead, 51 wounded
In El Paso, Texas, a 21-year-old white male aggrieved by “race mixing” opened fire with an AK-47 at a Walmart popular with Mexican tourists Saturday morning, killing 20 people and injuring 26 more, 9 of whom reportedly were in critical condition at area hospitals (2 of whom subsequently [...]
June 11th, 2019 - 8:43 am § in Racism
Fox’s Answer to Racism
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June 8th, 2019 - 9:10 am § in Racism
Dead and Black
Veteran’s body came back from prison missing throat, heart, brain “This entire case smacks of a cover-up,” civil rights attorney Lee Merritt told CNN by phone. (6/8/19 CNN) Two days before he died, Everett Palmer Jr. called his brother, Dwayne, to tell him he was on his way from De[...]
Concentration Camps: an America First Phenomenon