When a wrestler’s haircut is really about a race
Peace, goodwill, and good tidings this holiday season were interrupted by the outrageous violation and public humiliation of a Black ...
Tag: racism
Wrestler’s shorn locs expose more than outdated rules
Black communities across the country watched in disbelief as a Black New Jersey high school wrestler was forced to either ...
Trump’s Republican party continues to fuel White nationalism
In 2018, all Americans would like to believe that racism is over and that society is moving toward equality and ...
Let’s talk Whiteness: ‘Minnesota Nice’ and prejudice explored at race forum
When it comes to the history of White people and America, we should all be doing some heavy lifting
New Fourth Precinct tree represents Northsiders’ vision of community
On Friday, Dec. 7, community leaders sipped on hot cocoa and hot cider as they decorated a new donated tree ...
Change in leadership follows Fourth Precinct Christmas tree uproar
On Friday, two officers from the North Minneapolis station, in a predominately African American neighborhood, were put on leave after ...
Mpls YWCA: It’s time to discuss ‘White fragility’
As of 2017, Minnesota’s unenviable track record made it the nation’s second-most unequal state (just after Wisconsin). An inRead study ...
Sexism, racism drive Black women to run for office in both Brazil and U.S.
The U.S. is not the only place where the advance of racism and misogyny in politics has spurred Black women ...
Minority job applicants often face invisible barriers
When analyzing these problems, researchers and others tend to focus on how the experiences of racial minorities compare with those ...
Through his art, former prisoner diagnoses systemic sickness of Florida’s prisons
Dimanche hopes that his art will open some eyes, and eventually end the American tradition of locking up, neglecting, exploiting ...
United Nations report puts U.S. to shame among developed countries
Now, in contrast to America’s “founding commitment to human rights,” all of us will recognize that the United States and ...
Roseanne Barr ape slur far from harmless, it has a profoundly racist history
The history of Blacks as apes or monkeys owes its start not to poor, unlettered, backwoods rednecks, but rather refined, ...
Graduation is just the first hurdle
Julianne Malveaux Marvel’s Black Panther, Chadwick Boseman, graduated from Howard University with a Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) degree in ...
Why can’t Black men get paid, too?
Why are only the Black men seen as “gimme-gimme” if they filed a lawsuit, or seen as opportunistic if they ...
Minnesotans join fight against racism, raise funds for youth soccer team
Sports and politics are always intertwined. So are sports and racism, even at the youth level. The Boise Idaho Juniors ...
Boston racism belies claims of a post-racial America
What happened last week in Boston sadly shows that no matter how far baseball seems to have progressed since Jackie ...
Puppet show about racism makes history’s lessons come alive
Students holding puppets “When students are involved with real people, and read documents, that story becomes real and transforms the ...
‘Trump effect’ has liberated closet racists, says historian
Professor John Hoberman Under President Donald Trump, the U.S. may now have moved into a time of not having to ...
Escaping the athletic fortress
Natasha Moore plans to graduate from the University of Minnesota this December with her African American Studies degree. She is ...
Offensive comments drive athlete from U of M track team
Last year, an independent review found that University of Minnesota athletics did not have a “sexual harassment climate.” But is ...
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