Bigots and racists use our system of laws and law enforcement to police Black and Brown bodies, making it clear to people of color that we are neither welcome nor expected to exist in White spaces.
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Posted inLocal & State, National, News
Why Blackface?
Blackface is part of American culture’s DNA. But America has forgotten that. Although use of Blackface is now politically and culturally radioactive, there was a time when it wasn’t.
Posted inArts + Culture, Movies
Film links Minneapolis’ Jim Crow past to present-day disparities
A new TPT documentary, ‘Jim Crow of the North,’ is set to further the discussion of Minneapolis’ color-coded housing bigotry.
Posted inNews
YWCA forum calls for more ‘White humility’
Dr. Robin DiAngelo noted that culture is specifically structured so that White people have the choice to remain stuck in their ignorance.
Posted inOpinion
There must be a price for the ‘softcore lynching’ of Blacks
There must be a substantial price paid by these racists who choose to call the police when there is absolutely no evidence of a crime, intended or otherwise.
Posted inSports
Racist/sexist imagery a ‘tough reality’ for Black female athletes
‘Black female athletes must navigate a treacherous terrain in combating both racism and sexism.’
Posted inMLK Legacy Section, National, News, Special Editions
The whitewashing of King’s message and legacy
A large deterrent to continued progress is propaganda painting King as a sweet guy with a catchy speech device (dreams are nice) instead of as a skilled and calculating social philosopher torquing deep-rooted gears of American governance and culture to rapidly bring attention to the urgent matters of poverty, racism and war.
Posted inOpinion
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 New Jersey high school wrestler.
Posted inLocal & State, News
Wrestler’s shorn locs expose more than outdated rules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 cut his dreadlocks or forfeit a regional match.
Posted inOpinion
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 certain inalienable rights for everyone.
Posted inLocal & State, News
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
Posted inPhoto Galleries
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 outside of the station filled with ornaments
Posted inLocal & State, News
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 adorning the Christmas tree with cans of malt liquor, Newport cigarettes, and Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen paraphernalia, along with other racist items.
Posted inNews
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 measured disparity gaps between Black and White residents in, amongst other areas, unemployment, income, education and homeownership.
Posted inNational, News
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 to run for office at unprecedented levels. In Brazil, a record 1,237 Black women will be on the ballot this Sunday in the country’s Oct. 7 general election.
Posted inNational, News
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 of Whites. Often missing is whether there are differences among individuals of the same racial group in terms of how they experience bias.
Posted inArts + Culture
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 and abusing millions in prisons across the country.
Posted inOpinion
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 “its immense wealth” were built largely on the forced removal of Native peoples from their land, the free labor of African slaves, and myriad other human rights violations.
Posted inOpinion
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, wealthy and highly educated White people who invented so-called scientific racism in which Europeans sought to prove the inferiority of Blacks, ostensibly to justify their enslavement of Africans.
Posted inOpinion
Graduation is just the first hurdle
Marvel’s Black Panther, Chadwick Boseman, graduated from Howard University with a Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) degree in 2000. On May 12, Boseman returned to his alma mater to address the Class of 2018 while receiving an honorary degree. The Howard University graduation was one of more than 100 Historically Black College and University graduations […]