From NPR.org: The W.K. Kellogg Foundation has announced that it will lead a $75 million initiative aimed at righting some of the disparities that can lead to racism. On May 11 youth organizations from 29 states and the District of Columbia will receive grants through the “Racial Healing Initiative.” Host Michel Martin speaks with Gail […]
From the Washington Post: As several states with active “tea party” groups prepare to hold important primary elections this month, the movement is struggling to overcome accusations of racism that are tinting perceptions of this loose network of conservatives. “We don’t want the worst elements to take this over,” said Brendan Steinhauser, campaign director for […]
From ThinkProgress.com: Arizona, Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik, who has been a cop for 52 years, says the controversial immigration law will definitely lead to racial profiling. He told local TV station KGUN9 that the law is “racist,” “digusting,” and “unnecessary,” and he won’t enforce it. While the law may not explicitly mandate profiling, Dupnik […]
VIA: MSNBC Wal-Mart officials are looking at security tapes after an announcement was made for “all black people” to leave a store in South Jersey. A man used the public-address system at the Route 42 store in Washington Township Sunday night and calmly announced: “Attention Wal-Mart customers: All black people leave the store now.” Patricia […]
VIA: Alternet.com The opening night speaker at the Tea Party convention suggested a return to a “literacy test” to protect America from presidents like Obama — a segregation-era method employed by southern US states to keep blacks from voting. In his speech Thursday to attendees, former Republican congressman Tom Tancredo invoked the loaded pre-civil rights […]
Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh and televangelist Pat Robertson are no strangers to insensitive, racially charged comments, but the two crossed a line recently with comments regarding the earthquake tragedy in Haiti. Watch this video of MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann giving an inspired response to the hateful comments made by Limbaugh and Pat Robertson about the […]
VIA: CNN.com This much isn’t in dispute: Heather Ellis cut in line at a Wal-Mart nearly three years ago. But the accounts of what happened next vary, depending on whom you ask — and has divided this economically struggling Missouri town of 11,000 along racial lines. Ellis, then a college student with no criminal history, […]
VIA: AJC.com A judge granted bond for a South Georgia man charged with attacking an Army reservist outside a Morrow Cracker Barrel. Troy Dale West Jr., 47, is now being held in the Clayton County jail on a $320,500 bond, Clayton District Attorney Tracy Graham Lawson said Tuesday. uperior Court Judge Geronda V. Carter spent […]
VIA: AJC.com A judge said she needs time to decide if a south Georgia man charged with attacking an Army reservist outside a Cracker Barrel should be released from jail. Prosecutors asked a judge this morning to deny bond for a south Georgia man charged with attacking an Army reservist outside a Cracker Barrel restaurant […]
VIA: CNN.com Students from Washington University say they have complained to state and federal agencies that a Chicago, Illinois, nightclub barred six African-American members from their senior class trip celebration while admitting nearly 200 white classmates. Bar personnel cited dress code violations — specifically baggy jeans — when barring the African-American students, according to Washington […]
VIA: CNN.com A justice of the peace in Louisiana who has drawn widespread criticism for refusing to issue a marriage license to an interracial couple says he has no regrets about his decision. “It’s kind of hard to apologize for something that you really and truly feel down in your heart you haven’t done wrong,” […]
