Fact check: Police gave Kyle Rittenhouse water and thanked him before shooting Eric Litke USA TODAY Aug. 29, 2020 Kyle Rittenhouse, a 17-year-old from Illinois (above left) who considers himself a militia member, has been charged as an adult with one count each of intentional homicide and reckless homicide for the Aug. 25 shooting. He’s also charged with…
Read More Kyle RittenhousePull Out of the Kentucky Derby? Pressure on a Black Owner Mounts Greg Harbut, the rare Black owner of a horse in America’s biggest race, says the predominantly white sport must change. But at a moment of social unrest, others question why he is racing at all. By Joe Drape Sept. 3, 2020 In any other year,…
Read More Kentucky DerbyNASA’s Jeanette Epps set to be first Black woman to join long-term ISS crew Jeanette Epps had to wait a little longer than expected for her ISS assignment. Photo: NASA There is a history of African-American astronauts on space shuttle missions, including Mae Jemison, who became the first Black woman in space in 1992. Notably,…
Read More Jeanette EppsThe Biden-Harris ticket is ‘DNC approved.’ Yesterday (8/20/20), Joe Biden officially accepted the Democratic party’s nomination for president – more than 30 years after his first run for it. He said the US was facing “four historic crises” – the coronavirus pandemic, the economic crisis, racial injustice, and climate change. But that the country can “overcome this season of…
Read More Convention UpdatesHow does the history of racial slavery shape our world today? Racial slavery was at the center of the Atlantic World’s economy for centuries. One of its primary legacies is that white supremacy and anti-black racism became so deeply ingrained in the Atlantic World that they became part of the structures of society that remain…
Read More Racial Slavery in the AmericasRoger Goodell wishes the NFL ‘had listened earlier’ to Colin Kaepernick By Cindy Boren August 24, 2020 at 11:25 a.m. EDT NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell directly addressed Colin Kaepernick in an interview released Sunday, saying “I wish we had listened earlier” to the former quarterback who in 2016 began kneeling during the pregame playing of the national…
Read More Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black ManDaughter of Haitian Immigrants to Be 1st Black Woman on N.J. High Court Fabiana Pierre-Louis, 39, will also be the only Black judge currently seated on the state’s Supreme Court. By Tracey Tully Aug. 24, 2020, 12:15 p.m. ET A former assistant U.S. attorney in New Jersey, Ms. Pierre-Louis was nominated by Gov. Philip D. Murphy, a Democrat,…
Read More 1st Black Woman on NJ Supreme CourtMichelle Obama Urged Everyone to Vote. Her Necklace Spelled It Out. By Vanessa Friedman Aug. 18, 2020 The necklace had been custom-ordered through ByChari, an independent, Black-owned, female-led jewelry business founded by Chari Cuthbert, born in Jamaica and now based in Los Angeles, who also created Mrs. Obama’s large hoop earrings. Beneath them she wore a simple bronze…
Read More Michelle Obama Urged Everyone to VoteCelebrating 100 years of Negro (Baseball) Leagues African-Americans began to play baseball in the late 1800s on military teams, college teams, and company teams. They eventually found their way to professional teams with white players. Moses Fleetwood Walker and Bud Fowler were among the first to participate. However, racism and “Jim Crow” laws would force…
Read More Negro Baseball LeaguesTHE LEFT BEHIND: WHY ARE WHITE AMERICAN CHRISTIANS SO RACIST? BY DANIEL SCHULTZ AUGUST 5, 2020 [W]e white Christians have not just been complacent or complicit; rather, as the nation’s dominant cultural power, we have constructed and sustained a project of perpetuating white supremacy that has framed the entire American story. The legacy of this unholy union…
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