Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
How do young black men see themselves in America today? This is the formidable question buried under the high-top fades and Cross-Colour jeans of Rick Famiyuwa’s natty new film Dope. It’s the story of Malcolm, a retro-obsessed hip-hop geek with Harvard aspirations navigating senior year in a rough section of Inglewood, California. He and fellow…
.entry-header After watching Jon Stewart’s on-point and poignant words regarding the tragic shooting at the AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina, (watch it here before you continue reading!) I was curious about his statement that “the roads [in South Carolina] are named for Confederate generals.” I wanted to see the prevalence of Confederate Generals’ names…
Larry Wilmore was horrified by conservative reactions to the killing of nine people in Charleston, S.C., Wednesday. And while the “Nightly Show” host said that he was initially reluctant to address the massacre on his comedy program because it didn’t seem like the proper forum for a tragedy of this volume, Wilmore couldn’t sit idly…
A former friend who had reconnected with the man accused of a shooting massacre inside a historic black church in Charleston, South Carolina, said Dylann Storm Roof had become an avowed racist. Joey Meek reconnected with Roof a few weeks ago and said that while they got drunk together on vodka, Roof began complaining that…
Bravo Jon for keeping it real. @Kwam_E ▶ Jon Stewart on Charleston South Carolina Shooting. Daily Show 6/18/2015 – YouTube.
In Fairfield, Ohio, police officers were caught on camera roughing up pre-teens and a pregnant woman in bathing suits and macing them on June 9 at a pool. The incident began when Krystal Dixon says she dropped off her kids and nieces at Fairfield Aquatic Center pool but one child didn’t have a bathing suit….
Photo Charleston police released a photograph taken from surveillance footage of the man who is believed to be the gunman. Credit Charleston Police Department, via Reuters CHARLESTON, S.C. — An intense manhunt was underway on Thursday for a white gunman who opened fire on Wednesday night at a historic black church in this city’s downtown,…
Rachel Dolezal may have resigned from the NAACP but she is not stepping down from her role as a self-identified black woman. In an interview with the Today show’s Matt Lauer this morning, Dolezal confirmed that she still believes herself to be black. She later denied to MSNBC’s Melissa Harris-Perry that she is a “con…
Over the weekend, MSNBC’s Melissa Harris-Perry appeared to be giving Rachel Dolezal the benefit of the doubt when she asked her panel, “Is it possible that she might actually be black?” and brought up the “transracial” issue as a possible explanation. But on Tuesday, when Harris-Perry got a chance to interview the former NAACP chapter…
Rachel Dolezal, former president of the NAACP chapter in Spokane, Washington, resigned Monday amid allegations of lying about her race. The real news story was the social-media firestorm that surrounded her so-called lie that she was of African descent. Genetically, anthropologically, and biologically, all Homo sapiens are from Africa. Nearly all anthropologists agree with the…