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Rachel Dolezal is still up to her old tricks—chiefly, identifying as black and saying little beyond that when questioned about virtually anything—per her appearance on today’s episode of The Real, the View-style roundtable talk show whose panel is made up entirely of women of color. God knows why Dolezal appeared on the show—her internet-breaking notoriety…
On last night’s episode of The Nightly Show, Larry Wilmore weighed in on Ben Carson‘s new outreach strategy with a rap ad directed towards African-American voters. All things considered, Wilmore thinks Carson’s got a loooooong way to go before he can be the Tupac Shakur of politics. Deciding that he “had to hear this,” Wilmore…
The hip-hop radio ads coming out of Ben Carson’s presidential campaign this week, to much laughter and derision, represent what Republican outreach to African Americans often looks like these days. But there was a time when Republicans took diversifying their base much more seriously. In the early 1970s, even President Richard Nixon’s administration, with its…
Ta-Nehisi Coates is appearing this Thursday, October 29, at Town Hall Seattle, as part of Seattle Arts & Lectures. From the opening sentence of Ta-Nehisi Coates’s acclaimed memoir, Between the World and Me, we know his chief concern is the destruction of the black body. Citing a television news interview he was called to do, he…
Begin: WordPress Article Content Twitter Engineering Manager Leslie Miley, the only black engineer in a leadership position at Twitter, just publicly announced that he has left the company. In his post, he says his reasons for leaving have everything to do with the way Twitter is addressing diversity and inclusion. Though Miley was laid off as…
Earlier this week, Angela Benton, Founder and CEO of NewMe, published a piece on Inc.com called “Why Facebook’s Latest Shot at Diversity Misses Its Mark.” It analyzes how the tech giant’s new diversity initiative, TechPrep, seems to be a temporary effort and funded by McKinsey & Company, not Facebook itself. The goal of their new…
Monday afternoon, video emerged of a white man approaching a small, black girl sitting in a classroom, noosing a thick arm around her neck, slamming her to the ground while she was still entangled in her desk, picking her up again, throwing her some distance across the room, and then again pinning her down. “Put…
Erika Escalante, 20, is apologizing after tweeting the above image and caption. Fox 10 Screenshot /sl-art-illo-cap /sl-art-illo-cntr Black Twitter has claimed another victim: A 20-year-old intern has been fired for posting a photo of herself and a friend in a cotton field with the caption, “Our inner [n–ger] came out today.” Shortly after the…
UCLA Civil Rights Project The reliance on student suspensions to maintain discipline in public schools varies dramatically across the 50 states, according to a new statistical analysis by UCLA researchers. Their report identified the individual districts with the highest suspension rates, while finding American children are losing almost 18 million days of instruction due to…
A Louisville police officer is facing assault and misconduct charges after his alleged use of force at a middle school. Screenshot from school surveillance footage Over the past year, video footage from around the country of law enforcement officers killing citizens, many of them black, has brought scrutiny on policing in the streets. Yet,…