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Driving while black in California can be expensive, especially if you are poor. According to a report by Back On the Road California, a consortium of social justice and legal groups, black drivers in the state are more likely to have their licenses suspended for failure to appear in court or failing to pay a…
Recently, functional programming conference LambdaConf announced Curtis Yarvin would be speaking at the event. Yarvin, who writes online as “Mencius Moldbug,” is a prolific blogger whose devotees describe themselves as Neo-reactionary, or part of the “Dark Enlightenment.” A White supremacist movement, Neoreactionaries re-cast eugenics and scientific racism as “human biodiversity,” believe democratic government should be…
WASHINGTON — Racial justice and Black Lives Matter activists based in New York say they question the sincerity of Bill Clinton’s statement at the NAACP last summer that the longer sentences in the 1994 crime bill were “overdone” after he clashed with BLM protesters earlier this week. On Thursday, after protesters interrupted Bill Clinton’s remarks…
Bill Clinton was supposed to be stumping for Hillary Clinton in Philly today. Instead, he spent a considerable amount of time explaining to Black Lives Matter protestors why they need to stop being so loud. The clip above was perhaps the most egregious of Clinton’s condescending, tone deaf remarks, as he clashed with protestors in…
So when whites choose a traditionally black hairstyle such as dreadlocks, it adds another layer of complexity to the issue. Take the latest case in point: a viral video showing a black woman calling out a white male student at San Francisco State University for his dreadlocks. The video touched off debate over whether dreadlocks…
This article originally appeared on AlterNet. The following is the latest in a new series of articles on AlterNet called Fear in America that launched this March. Read the introduction to the series. When black people wake up and begin the day, we have a wide range of issues we have to think about before leaving our homes. Will a police…
Big City By GINIA BELLAFANTE Late in the afternoon on St. Patrick’s Day, Glen Grays, a 27-year-old African-American mail carrier, was making his rounds in Crown Heights, in Brooklyn, about to leave a package at 999 President Street. Mr. Grays prides himself on getting to know the community he serves, he told me on Wednesday….
Not long ago I sat with my husband and previewed several episodes of “Underground,” a new drama that premiered last week on WGN America. As the end credits rolled on Episode 2, which airs tonight at 10 p.m. on the cable channel, I asked him whether this is a series he’d willingly watch. He considered the…
Dan Baum, writing in support of drug legalization at Harper’s, has unleashed a frank 1994 quote from former Nixon policy advisor John Ehrlichman, and as inadvertently salient an argument for legalizing drugs as any I’ve ever seen: At the time, I was writing a book about the politics of drug prohibition. I started to ask…
Welcome back. Now, there’s beenan odd phenomena happening in the Trump campaign, and I’m not talking aboutthe Trump campaign. Uh, it’s aboutsome of his followers. And you have a lot ofblack people supporting Trump. Um, black peoplesupporting Trump? (exclaiming) So, where arethese black people? Well, I had some of themin my studio the other day,…