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 […]
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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 went on talk shows? Why must only the Black men be expected to settle for a dollar?
Posted inSports
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 Football Club, a grade school soccer team of nine and 10-year-olds from 10 countries, in January, received a threatening note that used racial epithets against its players. During soccer matches, the team players and their […]
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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 Robinson’s major league debut in 1947, it still resembles America’s non-post-racial ways. 2017 racism is virtually no different from 1947 racism. Robinson in ’47 was called the N-word and oft-taunted, simply because of his skin […]
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Puppet show about racism makes history’s lessons come alive
“When students are involved with real people, and read [historical] documents, that story becomes real and transforms the students. It’s something you will never…get out of a book,” said Greg Poferl explaining the idea behind an upcoming multi-media puppet show tackling the issue of racism and housing discrimination. The show, “Racism in our Hometown: The Story […]
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‘Trump effect’ has liberated closet racists, says historian
Under President Donald Trump, the U.S. may now have moved into a time of not having to apologize for racism according to a longtime social and cultural historian. Professor John Hoberman of the University of Texas at Austin, who was the scheduled Humphrey Forum speaker January 30 at the U of M’s Humphrey School of […]
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Escaping the athletic fortress
Natasha Moore plans to graduate from the University of Minnesota this December with her African American Studies degree. She is considering attending graduate school, possibly somewhere down South, her years at the U of M not what she’d hoped for when she was recruited.
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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 there a racist climate in U of M athletics? A former Black female track athlete believes so, and she says that school officials aren’t taking it very seriously.