Category Archives: Racism

Texas Teacher Fired after Posting Facebook Comments Suggesting a Return to Segregation of the Races Might Be a Good Idea

Posted on June 11, 2015 by Elaine Magliaro

By Elaine Magliaro From Jia Tolentino of Jezebel: A fourth-grade teacher at Bennett Elementary School in Frenship ISD, which serves Lubbock, TX, has written, deleted, and faced widespread public shame for a Facebook post in which she details her anger … Continue reading →

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A Black Ex-Cop Writes about Race and Policing in the United States (VIDEO)

Posted on June 10, 2015 by Elaine Magliaro

By Elaine Magliaro Redditt Hudson has an interesting article titled I’m a black ex-cop, and this is the real truth about race and policing over at Vox. Hudson was a St. Louis police officer for five years. He currently serves as the board … Continue reading →

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Injustice in America: Regarding Texas’s Restrictive and Racist Voter ID Law and the Innocent Citizens It Disenfranchises (VIDEOS)

Posted on June 4, 2015 by Elaine Magliaro

By Elaine Magliaro Patrick Svitek of The Texas Tribune reported yesterday that presidential hopeful and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton would use her speech today in Houston “to call for expanded early voting across the country and criticize states … Continue reading →

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Norman Solomon Writes about Jeffrey Sterling and the CIA: “An Untold Story of Race and Retribution”

Posted on May 31, 2015 by Elaine Magliaro

By Elaine Magliaro Norman Solomon has an article titled Jeffrey Sterling vs. the CIA: An Untold Story of Race and Retribution over at ExposeFacts. Sterling is the former CIA officer and whistleblower who was convicted of leaking classified information to New York … Continue reading →

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Court Releases Photograph of Two Chicago Cops Posing As Hunters with Black Suspect Wearing Antlers

Posted on May 28, 2015 by Elaine Magliaro

By Elaine Magliaro Here’s a photograph of Chicago Police Department officers Jerome Finnigan (left) and Timothy McDermott (right) posing with an unidentified suspect. (Note: The photo was obtained by The Chicago Sun-Times from a court filing.) The Chicago Police Department … Continue reading →

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Stateside California: Pregnant Black Woman Who Refused to Provide Identification Slammed to Ground and Arrested by Barstow Police

Posted on May 28, 2015 by Elaine Magliaro

By Elaine Magliaro The American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Southern California (ACLU SoCal) obtained a video taken in January outside a school building by a police body camera of an officer “responding to an apparent traffic dispute.” The dispute  … Continue reading →

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Picture of the Day for May 9, 2015: Chris Rock on Racism

Posted on May 9, 2015 by Elaine Magliaro

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Tim Wise on What White Americans Do Not Know…and Do Not Want to Know

Posted on May 9, 2015 by Elaine Magliaro

By Elaine Magliaro In January of 2014, I posted a video of Tim White talking about the “concept of whiteness.” (The title on his YouTube video clip reads “Tim White: On White Privilege.”) Yesterday, I came across an article that … Continue reading →

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From the Annals of Driving While Black: ACLU of Colorado Claims Two African-American Men Were Victims of Racial Profiling

Posted on May 7, 2015 by Elaine Magliaro

By Elaine Magliaro The ACLU of Colorado claims that two African-American men who were pulled over by police in Colorado Springs and taken into custody were victims of racial profiling. The group is representing Ryan and Benjamin Brown, the two … Continue reading →

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Activists Voice Concern That the Enforcement of Baltimore Curfew Has Been Targeting Poor Black Communities Unevenly

Posted on May 3, 2015 by Elaine Magliaro

By Elaine Magliaro Late last night, Kevin Rector of The Baltimore Sun reported that a group of “about 50 mostly white protesters stood on a corner in Hampden on Saturday just as the citywide 10 p.m. curfew went into effect.” The … Continue reading →

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