Adofo-Mensah had at least 11 qualified Black candidates to choose from in hiring the new Vikings coach.
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Posted inSports, Vikings/NFL
Lawsuit exposes NFL’s longstanding racism
‘The process for Black coaches revolves around two outcomes: one and done or never.’
Posted inNational, News, Sports
Ex-Miami Dolphins head coach sues NFL, three teams for racist hiring practices
Former Miami Dolphins Coach Brian Flores filed a lawsuit against the NFL and three teams alleging racism.
Posted inFeatured, National, News
Critical race theory and the banning of Black authors in schools, libraries, and prison
Since September 2021, at least 230 challenges have been made against Black-authored books.
Posted inNational, News
World dignitaries react to death of Bishop Desmond Tutu
‘Archbishop Tutu was grounded in the struggle for liberation and justice in his own country, but also concerned with injustice everywhere.’
Posted inOpinion
Stop normalizing Islamophobia
For Muslim Americans like myself, it’s another painful reminder of prevailing hatred in the country we call home.
Posted inOpinion
Critical Race Theory controversy is about denial of truth
Money-saturated right-wingers have seized the term strategically as a convenient rallying cry for their agenda.
Posted inLocal & State, News
Prior Lake High investigates student’s racist social media post (updated)
Prior Lake High School administrators are investigating a racist video posted on social media by one of the students.
Posted inHealth + Wellness
Black women who experience racism show trauma-like effects in brain scans
Brain scans of Black women who experience racism show trauma-like effects, putting them at higher risk for future health problems
Posted inFeatured, National, News
Pandemic reveals growing suicide crises in Black and POC communities
‘It’s not just a problem within the person, but societal issues that need to be addressed.’
Posted inOpinion
Right-wing efforts to erase history do not change the facts
Blotting out history to protect reputations or to prevent perceived criticism of races may be a feel-good exercise for some but it blurs reality and leads to ignorance.
Posted inFeatured, National, News
Racism, patriarchy taint Japan Olympics
Several Black female athletes have experienced issues ahead of the 2021 Olympics that has raised concerns of racism and patriarchy.
Posted inOpinion
The qualified immunity of Whiteness
The lack of justice in the policy of qualified immunity is glaringly obvious when a police officer of color is called to account for injuring or killing a White person.
Posted inNational, News
Bans on critical race theory could have a chilling effect on how educators teach about racism
‘How can a teacher in Iowa or Tennessee explain that the U.S. was not ‘fundamentally racist,’ yet at the time of its founding, race-based slavery was legal and stayed that way until after the Civil War?’
Posted inOpinion
Critical Race Theory and the debate over U.S. history
What is needed at this time is recognizing what has occurred in the past and how it has shaped our present reality.
Posted inLocal & State, News
NFL agrees to end ‘race-norming’
Race-norming is the practice of adjusting test scores to account for the race or ethnicity of the test-taker.
Posted inLocal & State
Observations from a long, consequential trial
The Derek Chauvin verdict is significant because it represents a rare instance of accountability in the criminal legal system for White officers who kill Black men.
Posted inOpinion
Minneapolis police speak with forked tongue
All of the press conferences in the world cannot cover up the history and reality of the Minneapolis police.
Posted inBlack History Month
How Black cartographers put racism on the map of America
The work of the Black Panther Party, a 1960s- and 1970s-era Black political group featured in a new movie and a documentary, helps illustrate how cartography—the practice of making and using maps—can illuminate injustice.
Posted inOpinion
United we fail
No amount of conflict resolution can turn these Trumpites into consensus-seeking adults.